Today is Tuesday, November 9, the 313th day of 2010. There are 52 days left in the year.
1799 ― Napoleon becomes dictator (first consul) of France
1858 ― First performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1904 ― First airplane flight to last more than five minutes
1918 ― Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1927 ― Giant Panda discovered, China
1963 ― 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1976 ― U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1989 ― East Berlin opens its borders
1984 ― Vietnam Veterans Memorial (``3 Servicemen”) completed
1990 ― President Bush announces ``doubling” of U.S. forces in Gulf