This Day In European History
9th November
Events1314: The Battle of Gammelsdorf; Ludwig of Bavaria defeats Duke Frederick of Austria.
1541: King Henry VIII's of England fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is imprisoned on charges of adultery.
1799: The Coup of 18 Brumaire in France removes the Directory as ruling executive.
1859: Britain abolishes flogging in the army.
1918 Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates.
1938: Reichkristallnacht in Germany, a mass organised attack on Jewish Germans.
1989: The Berlin Wall falls.
Births
1818: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Russian writer.
1841: King Edward VII of Britain.
1864: Dmitry Ivanovsky, Russian microbiologist.
1888: Jean Monnet, French economist.
Deaths
959: Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.
1970: General Charles de Gaulle, French president.
