On this day :

1938 Nazis launch Kristallnacht, 1780 Sumter evades Wemyss in South Carolina, 1960 Robert McNamara becomes president of Ford Motor Company, 1862 Burnside assumes command, 1989 East Germany opens the Berlin Wall, 1971 A Sunday school teacher murders his family and goes undercover for 18 years, 1872 Fire rips through Boston, 1906 Roosevelt travels to Panama, 1923 Nazis suppressed in Munich, 1956 Sartre renounces communists, 1965 The Great Northeast Blackout, 2001 Kodak Theatre new home of Oscars opens, 2004 Bestselling Millennium trilogy author Stieg Larsson dies at 50, 1990 Willie Nelsons assets are seized by the IRS, 1875 Followers of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse identified as hostile, 1901 Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines, 1946 Army and Notre Dame fight to a draw, 1965 Antiwar protestor sets himself afire, 1967 Captain Lance Sijan shot down over North Vietnam, 1970 Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War, 1914 Australian warship Sydney sinks German Emden, 1938 The Night of Broken Glass,