On this day ......

[MassRuss]

11/9/1918 - Wilhelm II abdicates. A German republic is proclaimed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor

11/9/1923 - Munich Beer Hall Putsch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_hall_putsch

11/9/1938 - Kristallnacht - Anti Jewish riots in Nazi Germany & Austria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

 

[MassRuss]

11/9/1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall

4 historical occurrences in German history, all on a 9th of November

 

[unloadonme]

9 November 1841 – Birth of King Edward VII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII

 

[unloadonme]

10 November 1889 – Birth of Claude Rains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Rains

 

[MassRuss]

November 10, 1871 - Birth of American novelist Winston Churchill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_(novelist)

I never heard of this guy till just now. Interestingly, they were not related, but were acquainted with one another

 

[Pickwick]

November 10, 1668 Birth of Louis de Bourbon ( Louis prince de Condé) Prince of the blood at the French court of Louis XIV. Styled as the Duke of Bourbon from birth.

 

[Pickwick]

November 11, 1918 World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919.

 

[MassRuss]

November 11, 1918 - Emperor Karl of Austria (King Charles IV of Hungary) abdicates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_Austria

 

[unloadonme]

11 November 1882 – Birth of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_VI_Adolf_of_Sweden

 

[Pickwick]

November 12 1980 Birth of Ryan Gosling (grrrrr Ryan !!!!!!!!!!!!)

 

[MassRuss]

November 12, 1944 - German battleship Tirpitz sunk by the RAF in a Norwegian fjord

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Tirpitz

 

[unloadonme]

12 November 1842 – Birth of John Strutt, OM, PRS, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh

 

[Pickwick]

November 131642 First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green – the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.

 

[MassRuss]

November 13, 1312 - Birth of Edward III of England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England

 

[unloadonme]

13 November 1868 – Death of Gioachino Rossini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino_Rossini

 

[Pickwick]

November 14 1567 Birth of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange. I come from a country named in his honor.

 

[unloadonme]

14 November 1840 – Birth of Claude Monet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

 

[MassRuss]

November 15, 1864 - Sherman burns Atlanta & begins his march through GA too the sea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman's_March_to_the_Sea

 

[Pickwick]

November 15 1316 Birth of John I of France, "the Posthumous" the only king of France who reigned all his life long, meaning only five days, he is also the only one to be king since birth and thus is the youngest king that France have known...

 

[Pickwick]

November 16 1272 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.