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Today inHistoryAssociated PressToday is Thursday, Nov.9, die 313th day of 2017. There are 52 days left in the year.■ hi 1620, the passengers and crew of the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod.■ hi 1872, fire destroyed nearly 800 buildings in Boston.■ hi 1918, it was announced that Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate; he then fled to the Netherlands.■ hi 1935, United Mine Workers president fohn L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee forIndustrial Organization (later renamed the Congress of Industrial Organizations).■ hi 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as rewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom that became known as Kristall-nacht.■ hi 1952, Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, died■ hi 1965, the great Northeast blackout began as a series of power failures lasting up to 13*/2 hours left 30 million people in seven states and p art o f C anada without electricity.■ hi 1967, a Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.■ hi 1970, former French President Charles de Gaulle died at age 79.■ hi 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as illegitimate.Today’s birthdaysBaseball Hall of Fam-er Whitey Herzog is 86 ■ Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson is 82 ■ Actor Charlie Robinson is 72 fl Movie director Bille August is 69 fl Actor Robert David Hall is 69 fl Actor Lou Fer-rigno is 66 fl Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is 65 ■ Gospel singer Donnie Mc-Clurldn is 58 fl Rock musician Dee Plakas (L7) is 57 fl Actress Ion Overman is 48 ■ Rapper Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa) is 48 ■ Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys) is 47 ■ Blues singer Susan Tedeschi is 47 ■ Actor Jason Antoon is 46 ■ Actor Eric Dane is 45 fl Singer Nick Lachey (98 Degrees) is 44 ■ Country musician Barry Knox (Parmalee) is 40 fl Rhythm-and-blues singer Sisqo (Dru Hill) is 39 fl Country singer Corey Smith is 38 fl Country singer Chris Lane is 33 ■ Actress Nikki Blonsky is 29 ■ Actress-model Analeigh Upton is 29.
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