November 9

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

Vietnam War

Nov 9, 1965:

Antiwar protestor sets himself afire

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In the second such antiwar incident within a week, Roger Allen LaPorte, a 22-year-old member of the Catholic Worker movement, immolates himself in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York. Before dying the next day, LaPorte declared, "I'm against wars, all wars. I did this as a religious act." LaPorte's act of protest followed that of Norman Morrison, a 32-year-old Quaker from Baltimore, who immolated himself in front of the Pentagon on November 2.

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This Week in History, Nov 9 - Nov 15

Nov 09, 1965
Antiwar protestor sets himself afire
Nov 09, 1967
Captain Lance Sijan shot down over North Vietnam
Nov 09, 1970
Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War
Nov 10, 1964
McNamara says that U.S. has no plans to send combat troops to Vietnam
Nov 10, 1970
No U.S. combat fatalities reported
Nov 10, 1971
Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh airport
Nov 11, 1967
Viet Cong release U.S. prisoners of war
Nov 11, 1968
Operation Commando Hunt commences
Nov 11, 1972
Long Binh base turned over to South Vietnam
Nov 12, 1969
Seymour Hersh breaks My Lai story
Nov 12, 1971
Nixon sets new deadline for next troop withdrawal
Nov 13, 1967
President receives optimistic reports
Nov 13, 1969
"March Against Death" commences in Washington, D.C.
Nov 14, 1965
Major battle erupts in the Ia Drang Valley
Nov 14, 1967
Marine general killed in Vietnam
Nov 14, 1972
Nixon promises Thieu that U.S. will continue to support South Vietnam
Nov 15, 1966
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs heckled at university
Nov 15, 1969
Second moratorium against the war held

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