Nov. 9 1938: Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," a night of Nazi terror against Jews that marks the beginning of the Holocaust with the killing of 91 Jews and the deportation of 30,000 to concentration camps.

Nov. 10 1973: Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5" burned as a "tool of the Devil" by school board, and the teacher who assigned it is fired, Drake, North Dakota. Nov. 11 1831: Slave revolt leader Nat Turner hanged, Jerusalem, Virginia. Leader of a bloody slave revolt three months before. A slave and educated minister, he believed himself chosen by God to lead his people out of slavery.

Nov. 12 1972: Chicano protesters storm the Seattle City Council after it rejects a lease for a proposed Chicano community center on the unused Beacon Hill School site. The site is later approved as El Centro de la Raza.

Nov. 13 1969: In New York, bombs explode over the course of several days in the RCA building, Rockefeller Center, the GM building on 5th Avenue, the Chase Manhattan Plaza, the United Fruit Company pier, the Criminal Courts building, the Marine Midland Grace Trust Company, and several other federal and corporate buildings, to protest government/corporate Vietnam War policy.

Nov. 14 1916: Margaret Sanger arrested for operating a birth control clinic. 1938: US Supreme Court denies appeal by Siuslaw tribe of Oregon to receive any compensation for their stolen land. 1993: CIA role in Haitian drug trade disclosed. US media yawns; US government declines to investigate itself.

Nov. 15 1939: Social Security Administration approves first unemployment check.

Nov. 16 1972: Pres. Nixon signs bill to build Alaska pipeline. The bill narrowly passed Congress only after a provision was added specifying that the resulting oil could only be sold in the United States-a restriction quietly lifted by executive order by Bill Clinton in 1996.

Nov. 17 1991: 1,603 African-American women protest Clarence Thomas's appointment to US Supreme Court after Senate confirmation hearings deride testimony of Thomas's long-standing pattern of sexual harassment.

Nov. 18 1872: Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting. 2002: The oil tanker Prestige capsizes off the coast of Spain, beginning what becomes the biggest environmental disaster in the history of Western Europe.

Nov. 19 1792: French revolutionary convention offers aid to all those wishing to overthrow their government. 1961: In a primitive form of capitalist accumulation, Michael Rockefeller eaten by cannibals.

Nov. 20 1910: Mexican Revolution Day, commemorates revolt of people against poverty and dictatorship. 1951: W.E.B. DuBois, a chief advocate of the Stockholm Peace Appeal (to ban atomic weapons), tried unsuccessfully in US federal court as a "foreign agent," is released.

Nov. 21 1974: U.S. Freedom of Information Act passed over Pres. Ford's veto. (Ford was fearing the 18 minute gap would get out.)

Nov. 22 1842: Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts. IMAX is on hand to rend an enormous 3-D sketch. 1916: Jack London, socialist, novelist, dog-lover, sailor on horseback, dies by his own hand. A suicide at 40, in Santa Rosa, California.