In Germany so many significant events in history have happened on November 9,
that historians have called the date Schicksalstag (Fateful Day).
It was the day that Robert Blum was executed in 1848,
After Germany’s defeat in the First World War, the emperor Wilhelm II lost the support of the German army. He abdicated on November 9, 1918,
Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch in 1923,
the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath died from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate Kristallnacht — the Night of Broken Glass, on November 9, 1938,
Communist-controlled East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany on this date in 1989. The Berlin Wall was subsequently destroyed by a euphoric public over a period of several weeks, and its fall was the first step toward German reunification, which was formally concluded on October 3, 1990.
The French are still casting a leery eye at their reunified neighbor.
And so it goes.
The Haus of Dcaligari 