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Berlin Wall falls (1989), Kristallnacht attacks occur (1938), US President Roosevelt visits Panama Canal (1906), Northeast Blackout of 1965 occurs, US Supreme Court declines to hear case questioning legality of Vietnam War (1970), brokerage firms ordered to pay $1.03 billion to defrauded investors (1998), Treaty of Seville signed ending Anglo-Spanish War (1729), The Atlantic Monthly is born (1857), US obtains rights to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii (1887), Great Lakes Storm of 1913 occurs, Rolling Stone magazine first published (1967), German government passes controversial data retention law (2007).
The Berlin Wall has fallen. (1989) Checkpoints between East and West Germany were opened for the first time since August 13, 1961. East and West Germany were reunified less than a year later on October 3, 1990.
US President Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting US president to visit another country on official business. (1906) President Roosevelt traveled to the Panama Canal to see how construction was progressing.
The “Kristallnacht” attacks occurred, which unofficially started the holocaust. (1938) “Kristallnacht,” or “Night of Broken Glass,” occurred after Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish resistance soldier, killed a Nazi diplomat. The Nazis began burning and vandalizing Jewish businesses, homes, synagogues, and schools. More than 100 Jews were killed and Nazi forces arrested more than 30,000 Jewish men in two days, sending most of them to concentration camps; many of the men were later released after promising to flee the country.
The Northeast Blackout of 1965 Occurred. (1965) The blackout, which cut power to more than 30 million people in the United States and Canada, was caused by human error; a maintenance worker has set the voltage limit to a safe stop that is too low. People have been without power for more than 13 hours in the cold winter.
The US Supreme Court declined to hear a case questioning the legality of the Vietnam War. (1970) Judges voted 6-3 not to hear the case Massachusetts v. Laird, which argued that the Vietnam War had not been officially declared, and therefore citizens of Massachusetts could refuse military service.
Brokerage firms in the United States have been ordered to pay $1.03 billion US dollars to defrauded investors. (1998) In one of the largest civil lawsuit settlements in US history, a federal judge required brokerage houses to reimburse investors who claimed they had lost money on the NASDAQ due to fraudulent price fixing.
The Treaty of Seville was signed, ending the Anglo-Spanish War. (1729) The treaty was the result of a peace agreement negotiated between France, Great Britain and Spain.
The Atlantic Monthly is born. (1857) Now known simply as The Atlantic, the magazine continues to focus on political, literary and cultural commentary. It is read by more than 400,000 subscribers and delivered 10 times a year.
The United States obtained the rights to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. (1887) The Kingdom of Hawaii and the United States signed the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875, giving the United States access to the sugar trade, which benefited the economy of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and the United States gained access to land in which Pearl Harbor Naval Base was built. The land gave the United States a permanent strategic military advantage in the Pacific. Hawaii became a US state in 1959.
The most destructive natural disaster in the history of the Great Lakes has occurred. (1913) The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 was a hurricane blizzard that killed more than 250 people and destroyed 19 ships. Much of the damage occurred on Lake Huron, but four of the five Great Lakes sustained damage.
Rolling Stone first published. (1967) Music-focused magazine was founded in San Francisco and now has a bimonthly circulation of over one million.
The German government has passed a controversial data retention law. (2007) The Bundestag, a lower-level parliament in Germany, passed a bill requiring its citizens’ telecommunications traffic, including emails and phone calls, to be archived, without establishing probable cause, for six months .
