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Today In HistoryBy The Associated PressToday is Saturday, Nov. 9, the313th day of 2002. There are 52 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On Nov. 9, 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13*4 hours.On this date:In 1872, fire destroyed nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston.In 1918, Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.In 1935, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committeefor Industrial Organization.In 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as “Kristallnacht.”In 1953, author-poet Dylan lhomas died in New York at age 39,In 1963, twin disasters struck Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people died in a train crash.In 1970, former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.In 1976,The UN General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as ‘‘illegitimate.” ' 6In 198fe, former Attorney GeneralJohn N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, died in Washington at age 75.Today’s Birthdays: Sportscaster Charlie Jones is 72. Baseball executive Whitey Herzog is 71. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, D-Fla., is 66. Actor Charlie Robinson (“Night Court”) is 57. Movie director Bille August is 54. Actor Lou Ferrigno is 50. Rock musician Dee Plakas (L7) is 42. Rhythm-and-blues singers Ike and Mike Owensby (Twice) are 34. Rapper Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa) is 33. Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys) is 33. Blues singer Susan TedesChi is 32. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nick Lachey (98 Degrees) is 29. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sisqo (Dru Hill) is 24.
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