Friday, November 9, 2007 — If anyone has Charles Justice’s last words (see 1911), please send them along.

1998—NASDAQ brokerage houses pay bilked customers $1 billion fine for rigging the game.

1989—The Berlin Wall becomes porous.

1979—Due to a computer error, for six minutes the U.S. Air Defense Command mistakenly believes that the U.S.S.R. is attacking the U.S.

1969—78 Indians occupy Alcatraz.

1967—Rolling Stone begins publication.

1966—Due to a failure at a single power plant in Ontario the entire northeast is left in the dark.

1953—Dylan Thomas dies in New York at 39.

1942—The first “Liberty Ship,” the Robert E. Peary, is launched.

1938—German Nazis demonstrate their racial superiority during Kristallnacht by killing 91 Jews.

1932—In Switzerland, a crowd of thousands demonstrate against fascism; the Army opens fire, killing 13.

1911—Charles Justice is executed in Ohio’s electric chair—which he had built himself while an inmate 14 years earlier.

1874—The New York Herald reports that wild animals, escaped from the Central Park Zoo, have killed 27 people. It’s a hoax.