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November 9 in history
Today's Highlight in History: On This Day: In 1918, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands. In 1935, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization. In 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as "Kristallnacht." In 1953, author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39. In 1963, twin disasters struck Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people died in a train crash. In 1970, former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79. In 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate." In 1988, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, died in Washington at age 75. In 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall. Ten years ago: Police in Hong Kong forcibly repatriated 59 Vietnamese boat people, carrying them onto a transport plane. President Bush returned from a four-day European trip that included a NATO summit. Singer-actor Yves Montand died near Paris at age 70. Five years ago: President Clinton used his weekly radio address to condemn the decision of the nation's distillers to end their voluntary ban on airing hard-liquor ads, calling it "simply irresponsible." Evander Holyfield upset Mike Tyson to win the WBA heavyweight title in an 11-round fight in Las Vegas. One year ago: George W. Bush's lead over Al Gore in all-or-nothing Florida slipped beneath 300 votes in a suspense-filled recount, as Democrats threw the presidential election to the courts, claiming "an injustice unparalleled in our history." Hussein Abayat, a West Bank militia commander, was killed by a missile from an Israeli helicopter gunship.
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