This day in history - November 9

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This day in history - November 9

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1938 - Nazi thugs looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria on Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass."

1965 - A cascading power failure that began around 5 p.m. cut off most of New York City and millions of other residents of the Northeast and Ontario. Power was restored about 12 hours later.

It was not a significant event in history; but like many things that happen in New York City, it got enormous media attention.

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1967 - The Apollo 4 mission was launched. It was a Saturn V rocket with an unmanned Apollo capsule. It reached 11,000 miles into space, the farthest journey of an Apollo craft until that time.

1989 - The East German government officially ended its policy of isolation from the West. Throngs of East Germans, who had been prisoners in their own country, crossed the border. The Berlin Wall was demolished within days.

Though the USSR and Warsaw Pact had been crumbling for some time, no other moment in those years so strongly signified the end of the Iron Curtain.

Children who had not been born in 1989 are adults now, and the grim tension that divided Europe for over four decades is slipping into history.

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I was stationed at a NATO airbase in Germany when this happened. It was a bit hard to believe at first. Within a few months we had our former-East German-opponents-now-just-"German"-allies in our office bar for a beer.

Now it's hard to believe it was TWENTY years ago...
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I looked over that wall at age 7 in 1972 - it forever shaped my view on communism and socialism.

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Interesting. I made the comment about being stationed at a NATO airbase right after SeamusTX made the original post in 2009, but somehow the date on the post has been changed to 2013. ??
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ELB wrote:I made the comment about being stationed at a NATO airbase right after SeamusTX made the original post in 2009, but somehow the date on the post has been changed to 2013.
In the software field (which I work in) we call that a bug.

I remember when you posted that comment four years ago. This thread was receding into history, but in my mind it was one of the most important events of that time.

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