On this day: November 9

POSTED: 07:01 PM PST Nov 08, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 08, 2012 

Pilgrims on the Mayflower spot land, Jack the Ripper kills for the last time, the PGA integrates, Rolling Stone magazine debuts, and the Berlin Wall begins to fall, all on this day.

OTD November 9 - Mary Kelly
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1888: Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. Her mutilated body is discovered lying on the bed in the single room where she lived. The throat had been severed down to the spine, the abdomen virtually emptied of its organs and the heart was missing.

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