Important Events From This day in History – 9th November

Today in History

• 2009 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall

  On this day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, and Polish ex-president and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa walked through Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall.

• 1994 Darmstadtium created for the first time

  The element, which has an atomic number of 110 and the symbol Ds, was created at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany, after which it is named.

• 1985 Youngest person to become World Chess Champion

  Gary Kasparov, 22, of Russia, defeated Anatoly Karpov in the 13th World Chess Championship to become the youngest World Chess Champion.

• 1967 Rolling Stone makes its debut

  Jann Simon Wenner founded the biweekly popular culture magazine in San Francisco. The magazine launched many famous authors’ careers and also published early versions of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

• 1938 Night of broken glass

  Sturmabteilung troops and civilians carried out a pogrom against Jewish businesses, synagogues, and Jews in Germany and Austria. The night of broken glass, or Kristallnacht, was a series of attacks that killed approximately 70 people and imprisoned 30,000 Jews.