Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 9
November 9: Independence Day in Cambodia (1953); Schicksalstag in Germany.
- 1799: The coup of 18 Brumaire led by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (pictured) and Napoléon Bonaparte deposed the French government, replacing the Directory with the Consulate.
- 1872: The Great Boston Fire of 1872 began, eventually destroying over 700 buildings in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1938: Kristallnacht, the first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence in Nazi Germany, began.
- 1965: In the Northeast Blackout of 1965, several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13½ hours.
- 1989: The Berlin Wall fell, marking the symbolic end of the Cold War, impending collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and beginning of the end of Soviet communism.
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