Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first time in decades.
Today is Saturday, Nov. 9, the 314th day of 2024. There are 52 days left in the year.Today in history:
On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first time in decades.Also on this date:
In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt made the first trip abroad of any sitting president in order to observe construction of the Panama Canal.
In 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as thousands of Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom or deliberate persecution that became known as “Kristallnacht.
