November 9th is World Freedom Day to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Also on this day in history -
- 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country to inspect progress on the Panama Canal
- 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people
- 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic
- 1921 – Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect
- November 9th is often called Germany's Schicksalstag (day of fate) due to the events of 1848, 1918, 1923, 1938, and 1989
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