1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot
wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the
Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
1979 – Nuclearfalse
alarm: the NORAD computers
and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort
Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear
strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and
checking the early warning radars, the
alert is cancelled.
1998 – Brokerage houses are ordered to pay
1.03 billion USD to cheated
NASDAQ investors to compensate for their
price-fixing. This is the largest
civil settlement in United
States history.