Today in History: November 9, Holocaust begins with looting of Jewish stores, homes

Currently is Sunday Nov the th day of There are days left in the year In current times in history On Nov 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 Theodore Roosevelt made the first trip abroad of any sitting U S president in order to observe construction of the Panama Canal Related Articles Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets US airlines cancel over flights for a second straight day largely due to regime shutdown UPS and FedEx grounding MD- planes following deadly Kentucky crash US leadership shutdown forces chosen overseas bases to stop paying workers Washington s struggling business sector takes another hit from the ruling body shutdown In United Mine Workers President John L Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization In the great Northeast blackout began with a series of power failures lasting up to hours leaving million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity In the U N General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa including one characterizing the white-ruled governing body as illegitimate In communist East Germany threw open its borders allowing citizens to advance freely to the West for the first time in decades a landmark event often referred to as the fall of the Berlin Wall In President Gen Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a day and rounded up thousands of her supporters to block a mass rally against his urgency rule Bhutto would be assassinated weeks later on Dec in a shooting and bombing attack that killed at least people In after seasons as Penn State s head football coach and a record victories Joe Paterno was fired along with the university president Graham Spanier over their handling of child sex abuse accusations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky In surgeons at Langone Soundness in New York broadcasted that they performed the world s first transplant of an entire human eye in May of that year operating on a man whose face was badly damaged in an accident with high-voltage power lines The present day s Birthdays Film director Bille August is Actor-bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno is Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin is TV writer-director-producer Ryan Murphy is Rapper Scarface Geto Boys is Blues singer Susan Tedeschi teh-DEHS -kee is Golfer David Duval is Actor Eric Dane is Singer-TV personality Nick Lachey is Actor-TV personality Vanessa Lachey is Country singer Chris Lane is