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Monday, 09 November 2026

2007

The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.

2005

The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.

1998

Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

1994

The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.

1993

Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.

1990

New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.

Mary Robinson is elected Ireland's first female President and the first from the Labour Party.

1989

Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.

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