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Booker T

Turning Point was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held on November 9, 2008, in Orlando, Florida, produced by the American Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It was the fourth event in the Turning Point chronology and the eleventh in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card. In the main event, Sting defeated A.J. Styles to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Booker T (pictured earlier in 2008) fended off Christian Cage to retain the TNA Legends Championship. Kevin Nash bested Samoa Joe in a featured event, and Kurt Angle defeated Abyss in a Falls Count Anywhere match. Turning Point had an attendance of 1,100 people and, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, a PPV audience of 30,000. Bryan and Chris Sokol of the professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer website rated the event 7 out of 10, up from the 2007 event's rating of 6.5. ( Full article...)

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Chalfont Viaduct in 2009

... that the Chalfont Viaduct (pictured in 2009) on the M25 motorway was famous for its graffiti slogan "Give Peas A Chance"?
... that Ann Thomas Callahan was one of the first indigenous graduates of the Winnipeg General Hospital's nursing school?
... that in the fairy-tale opera Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin by Udo Zimmermann, two orchestras play on stage, representing two empires in conflict?
... that Brigadier Leonard Cuthbert Lucas was decorated for his part in the construction of facilities for the British Operation Totem nuclear tests at Emu Field, South Australia?
... that despite opposition from within his resistance group, Andrej Steiner orchestrated the arrest of Jewish collaborator Karol Hochberg?
... that Changchun Dafangshen Airport was controlled by four different armed forces between August 1945 and May 1946?
... that as an adult, Marcy Tigner sold more than two million albums featuring her natural child-like voice?
... that during storms on 1–2 July 1968, hailstones the size of tennis balls fell in Cardiff and blood-red rain covered Southern England?

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Takuya Kai

In the United States midterm elections, the Democratic Party wins a majority in the House of Representatives, while the Republican Party expands its majority in the Senate.
In a referendum, New Caledonia votes against independence from France.
In baseball, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks defeat the Hiroshima Toyo Carp to win the Japan Series ( MVP Takuya Kai pictured).
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, is acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, sparking widespread protests by Islamists.

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November 9: Muhammad Iqbal's Day in Pakistan

Flag of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

1872 – The Great Boston Fire began, eventually destroying more than 750 buildings and causing $73.5 million in damages in Boston, Massachusetts.
1918 – The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted the national flag (pictured) which is still used by the 21st-century Republic of Azerbaijan, with minor modifications.
1938 – Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of 30,000 men to concentration camps.
1967 – French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline first appeared in Pilote magazine.
2016 – A tram derailed in Croydon, United Kingdom, killing seven people.

Johannes Narssius (b. 1580) · Neville Chamberlain (d. 1940) · Dylan Thomas (d. 1953)

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Manzanillo

There are ten municipalities in Colima, a state in West Mexico. According to the 2015 Mexican Intercensal Survey, it is the state that has the smallest population with 711,235 inhabitants and is the fifth smallest by land area spanning 5,801.75 square kilometres (2,240.07 sq mi). Municipalities in Colima are administratively autonomous of the state according to the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico. The legal framework for Colima's municipalities is provided by Title VII of the state Constitution and the 2001 Law of Free Municipalities in the State of Colima. Every three years, citizens elect a municipal president by a plurality voting system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. The largest municipality by population in Colima is Manzanillo (pictured), with 184,541 residents, and the smallest municipality is Ixtlahuacán with 5,527 residents. ( Full list...)

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Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent cells derived from the embryo of humans and other animals during the blastocyst stage of development, before implantation. In human embryos this stage is reached 4–5 days after fertilization, at which time they consist of 50–150 cells. The cells are the subject of considerable research into potential therapeutic use, including the treatment of diabetes and heart disease. They are also studied for clinical therapies, models of genetic disorders, and cellular/DNA repair. However, adverse effects in the research and clinical processes such as tumours and unwanted immune responses have been reported. Isolating the inner cell mass results in destruction of the blastocyst, a process which raises ethical issues, including whether or not embryos at the pre-implantation stage should have the same moral considerations as embryos in the post-implantation stage of development.

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