Today in HIstory.....November 9

On this day in …

* 1799, Napoleon became dictator of France

* 1821, the first US pharmacy college holds starts classes in Philadelphia

* 1872, fire destroyed nearly a thousand buildings in Boston

* 1904, the first airplane flight lasting more than 5-minutes

* 1918, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands

* 1938, Nazis, ym"s, looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as "Kristallnacht."

* 1967, a Saturn 5 rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight

* 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall