November 9 Events: 1989 - Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany. 2004 - Halo 2, one of the most anticipated video games of all time, is released for the Xbox. 2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 56 people. (^i found that one interesting. that on jordan's birthday, there were suicide bombers in jordan. it's bad but i still find it odd...especially since news articles has the words JORDAN and SUICIDE BOMBERS and NOVEMBER 9 in big letters...so it stood out just a wee bit to me.) Births: 1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000) 1973 - Nick Lachey (they didn't put it, for some weeeird reason he wasn't on the list, even though i double checked and it says he was born on november 9...and he's the only other one i've heard of so here he goes) Deaths: 1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (b. 1914) ^(that was the only semi-interesting one.)