11-09-2007, 08:18 AM
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November 9th
1888 ~ Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1922 ~ Birthday of Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher.
1934 ~ Birthday of Carl Sagan, American Astronomer & Writer.
1936 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion.
1938 ~ Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, Kristallnacht, began.
1953 ~ Death of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet.
1965 ~ Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by blackouts.
1970 ~ Death of Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician.
1995 ~ Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov to become the world chess champion.
1998 ~ Capital punishment abolished in the United Kingdom.
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