{"id":23646,"date":"2015-11-09T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=23646"},"modified":"2015-11-09T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:42:35","slug":"23646","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=23646","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Berlin<\/a>Associated Press<\/p>\n

On Nov. 9, 1989, Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West. Joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.
\n1918- Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate.
\n1935- United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
\n1938- Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria on Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass.”
\n1965- Several northeastern states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1\/2 hours.
\n1970- Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
\n1976- The United Nations General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa.
\n2001- 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.
\n2004- Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young award.
\n2005- Three suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims and wounding hundreds.
\n2011- 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..<\/p>\n

Today’s Birthdays:
\nBaseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson turns 80 years old today.
\nWhitey Herzog, Hall of Fame baseball manager, 84
\nBob Graham, Former U.S. senator, D-Fla., 79
\nRobert David Hall, Actor (“CSI”), 67
\nLou Ferrigno, Actor (“The Incredible Hulk”), 64
\nSherrod Brown, U.S. senator, D-Ohio, 63
\nPepa, Rapper (Salt-N-Pepa), 46
\nEric Dane, Actor (“Grey’s Anatomy”), 43
\nNick Lachey, Singer (98 Degrees), 42
\nActress Nikki Blonsky (“Hairspray”) turns 27 years old today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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