Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 9

November 9: Muhammad Iqbal's Day in Pakistan; Inventor's Day in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Schicksalstag in Germany.

• 1799 - The coup of 18 Brumaire led by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (pictured) and Napoléon Bonaparte deposed the French government, replacing the Directory with the Consulate.

• 1918 - German Emperor William II abdicated, Prince Maximilian of Baden 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.

• 1989 - The Berlin Wall fell, marking the symbolic end of the Cold War, impending collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and beginning of the end of Soviet communism.

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