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In 1923, following a meeting in a beer hall in Munich, a little known political party in Germany tried to carry out a coup d’etat to overthrow the government of Bavaria. It became known as “The Beer Hall Putsch”.
The putsch was inspired by Benito Mussolini's successful March on Rome from 22 to 29 October 1922. The plan was to use Munich as a base for a march against Germany's Weimar Republic government.
A group of 2,000 members of the party were led by a former WW1 corporal, Adolf Hitler, to the Field Marshals Hall in the centre of the city. Amongst the main members of the group were Herman Goering, Rudolph Hess, Ernst Rohm, former WW1 General Erich Ludendorff and Heinrich Himmler.
In the vanguard were four flag bearers followed by Adolf Lenk and Kurt Neubauer, Ludendorff's servant. Behind those two came more flag bearers, then the leadership in two rows. Hitler was in the centre, to his left, in civilian clothes, was Ludendorff. To Hitler's right was Max Erwin Von Scheubner-Richter who was killed in the subsequent confrontation. To his right came Alfred Rosenberg. On either side of these men were Ulrich Graf, Hermann Kriebel, Friedrich Weber, Julius Streicher, Hermann Göring, and Wilhelm Brückner.
They were confronted by a police cordon and this resulted in the death of 15 members of the NSDAP and four Bavarian police officers. Goering received a gunshot wound which lead to him developing an addiction to morphine. Goering was spirited away to Innsbruck and while Hitler escaped, he was arrested two days later.
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The putsch was inspired by Benito Mussolini's successful March on Rome from 22 to 29 October 1922. The plan was to use Munich as a base for a march against Germany's Weimar Republic government.
A group of 2,000 members of the party were led by a former WW1 corporal, Adolf Hitler, to the Field Marshals Hall in the centre of the city. Amongst the main members of the group were Herman Goering, Rudolph Hess, Ernst Rohm, former WW1 General Erich Ludendorff and Heinrich Himmler.
In the vanguard were four flag bearers followed by Adolf Lenk and Kurt Neubauer, Ludendorff's servant. Behind those two came more flag bearers, then the leadership in two rows. Hitler was in the centre, to his left, in civilian clothes, was Ludendorff. To Hitler's right was Max Erwin Von Scheubner-Richter who was killed in the subsequent confrontation. To his right came Alfred Rosenberg. On either side of these men were Ulrich Graf, Hermann Kriebel, Friedrich Weber, Julius Streicher, Hermann Göring, and Wilhelm Brückner.
They were confronted by a police cordon and this resulted in the death of 15 members of the NSDAP and four Bavarian police officers. Goering received a gunshot wound which lead to him developing an addiction to morphine. Goering was spirited away to Innsbruck and while Hitler escaped, he was arrested two days later.
Also on November 9th…
1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1791 – The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1870 - The Battle of Coulmiers ends in a Pyrrhic victory for the French army during the Franco-German War of 1870.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1914 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimeda Republic.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of the Ford Motor Company, becoming the first non-Ford family member to serve in that post. He resigns a month later to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
1965 – A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn Vrocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.
1979 – Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
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