November 9th

20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall. On this day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the last soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Polish ex-president and Noble Prize winner Lech Walesa walked through Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing - largest civil settlement in US history.

Chemical element Darmstadtium discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, German.

Borders between East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day.

Gary Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion aged 22.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran.

Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.

Rolling Stone makes its debut. The biweekly popular culture magazine was founded by Jann Simon Wenner in San Francisco. The magazine launched the careers of many famous authors and published the early versions of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

A switch at a station near Niagara Falls failed. The Northeast and parts of Canada went dark for more than 13 hours.

Author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.

Nazis burned and looted temples and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night—referring to broken glass on streets).

Jack the Ripper killed his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly.

Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.