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| 1918 |
Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate. |
| 1935 |
United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization. |
| 1938 |
Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria on Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass.”
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| 1965 |
Several northeastern states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours. |
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| 1970 |
Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79. |
| 1976 |
The United Nations General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa. |
| 2001 |
The northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif fell to the northern alliance in the first major territorial advance for the rebels against the ruling Taliban. |
| 2004 |
Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young award. |
| 2005 |
Three suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims and wounding hundreds. |
| 2011 |
Penn State fired longtime head football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier over their handling of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.. |
