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• ...that during the process of maceration (pictured) the clear-grayish color of grape juice gets its red wine coloring?
• ...that according to the book The World Without Us radioactive waste, bronze statues, and Mount Rushmore will be the longest lasting evidence of human presence on Earth?
• ...that 10TP was a Polish tank design, which advanced the Polish armor programme but came too late to provide the Polish Army with tanks of sufficient number and quality before the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
• ...that Marrack Goulding, a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1997 to 2006?
• ...that Cornelius, Oregon is named after pioneer Thomas R. Cornelius, who served in the both the Territorial and State legislatures?
• ...that the Ferranti Argus was developed to control the Bristol Bloodhound missile, but went on to be Ferranti's most successful industrial control computer?
• ...that Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat writes his scripts in English and then translates them to the Thai language?
  

• Police clash with opposition demonstrators in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
• Nine people are killed and several injured in a school shooting in Finland.
• Flooding in the Mexican states of Tabasco (pictured) and Chiapas forces 20,000 people to seek emergency shelter.
• The incumbent People's National Movement party retains power in the Trinidad and Tobago elections.
• At least 35 people are killed in a suicide bombing outside a sugar factory in northern Afghanistan.
• The Writers Guild of America's 12,000 members go on strike after negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers over new media royalties break down.
• Álvaro Colom of the National Unity of Hope is elected President of Guatemala.
• President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan suspends the country's constitution and declares a state of emergency.

November 9: Diwali in Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism (2007); Muhammad Iqbal's Day in Pakistan; Inventor's Day in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Schicksalstag in Germany.

• 1872 – The Great Boston Fire began, eventually destroying over 750 buildings and causing US$73.5 million in damages in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1918 – German Emperor William II abdicated, Prince Maximilian of Baden (pictured) resigned as Chancellor, and Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the Weimar Republic.
• 1953 – Cambodia gained independence from France and became a constitutional monarchy under King Norodom Sihanouk.
• 1967 – French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline first appeared in the pages of Pilote magazine.
• 2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing a total of about 60 people and injuring at least 115 others.

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