"On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as thousands of Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom or deliberate persecution that became known as Kristallnacht. Also on this date: In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt made the first trip abroad of any sitting U.S. president in order to observe construction of the Panama Canal."
"In 1965, the great Northeast blackout began with a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours, leaving 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity. In 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as illegitimate. In 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first time in decades."
Nov. 9 has been the date of multiple significant historical events. On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues and thousands of Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria, an event known as Kristallnacht. In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt made the first trip abroad by a sitting U.S. president to observe Panama Canal construction. Labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization in 1935. The 1965 Northeast blackout left 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity for up to 13 1/2 hours. In 1976 the U.N. condemned apartheid, and in 1989 East Germany opened its borders to the West. In 2023 surgeons announced the world's first transplant of an entire human eye.
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