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Good morning, it’s Sunday November 9 and it should be cool in the morning, warm in the afternoon and maybe a little rainy by tonight. It’s the 127th anniversary of the fire that destroyed the Texas Capitol, which was replaced by the current building.
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Good morning, it’s Sunday, Nov. 9, the 314th day of 2008. There are 52 days left in the year. We’ll start the day in the upper 40s, but by this afternoon, it should be in the mid 70s under a sunny sky. Tonight a chance of rain enters the forecast.

On November 9, 1881, fire destroyed the Texas Capitol. Work on what is now the state Capitol was completed in 1888.

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Fall leaves in the Bosque River. The photo was taken by Jim Manganella and was selected for the 2008 News 10 Weather Authority Calendar.**information about the 2008 News 10 Weather Authority Calendar.





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Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as "Kristallnacht." It's estimated that more than 90 Jews were killed in the pogrom.

On This Date:
In 1872, fire destroyed nearly 800 buildings in Boston.
In 1918, it was announced that Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.
In 1935, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization (later Congress of Industrial Organizations).
In 1953, author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.
In 1963, twin disasters struck Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and about 160 people died in a train crash.
In 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurred as a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours left 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.
In 1967, a Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.
In 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate."
In 1988, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, died in Washington at age 75.
In 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.

Ten years ago:
A federal judge in New York approved a massive antitrust settlement in which leading brokerage firms promised to pay $1.03 billion to investors who had sued over a price-rigging scheme for stocks listed on the Nasdaq market. The age of digital and interactive TV opened with the airing of a PBS documentary special, "Chihuly Over Venice."

Five years ago:
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling bloc won a majority in the country's parliamentary elections. Three-time Top Fuel champion Shirley Muldowney, 63, ended her 30-year racing career with a loss in the second round of the Auto Club NHRA Finals at Pomona Raceway in California. Comic actor Art Carney died in Chester, Connecticut, at age 85.

One year ago:
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a day, and rounded up thousands of her supporters to block a mass rally against his emergency rule. Chadian authorities released three Spanish flight crew members and a Belgian pilot detained in an alleged kidnapping plot of African children by a French charity.

Today's Birthdays:
Baseball executive Whitey Herzog is 77. Former Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.) is 72. Singer Mary Travers is 72. Actor Charlie Robinson ("Night Court") is 63. Movie director Bille August is 60. Actor Robert David Hall ("CSI") is 60. Actor Lou Ferrigno is 56. Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin is 49. Rock musician Dee Plakas (L7) is 48. Rapper Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa) is 39. Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys) is 39. Blues singer Susan Tedeschi is 38. Actor Eric Dane is 36. Singer Nick Lachey (98 Degrees) is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sisqo (Dru Hill) is 30. Actress Nikki Blonsky (Film: "Hairspray") is 20.

Thought for Today:
"All life is an experiment." – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (1841-1935).

(Source: Associated Press)
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