Bush’s lead over Al Gore in all-or-nothing Florida slipped beneath 300 votes in a suspense-filled recount, as Democrats threw the presidential election to the courts, claiming “an injustice unparalleled in our history.” In 1999, with fireworks, concerts and a huge party at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, Germany celebrated the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall. (Vanunu was convicted of treason and served 18 years in prison.) In 1986, Israel revealed it was holding Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technician who’d vanished after providing information to a British newspaper about Israel’s nuclear weapons program. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as “illegitimate.” In 1970, former French President Charles de Gaulle died at age 79. In 1967, a Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight. In 1965, the great Northeast blackout began as a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours left 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity. The Beatles’ future manager, Brian Epstein, first saw the group perform at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England. White became the first pilot to fly an X-15 rocket plane at six times the speed of sound. In 1918, it was announced that Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate he then fled to the Netherlands. In 1620, the passengers and crew of the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod. 9, 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom or deliberate persecution that became known as “Kristallnacht.” Business & Finance Click to expand menu.

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