The events on the said day/night was the Night of the broken Glass, or Kristallnacht which were the day when the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis openly started. It started because of the killing of the Nazi German Diplomat, Ernst vom Rath by a Polish Jew. The term Kristallnacht was coined because of the broken glass produced by the ransacking of Jewish establishments and Synagogues.
England had a few geographical qualities that allowed for the industrial revolution to begin within its borders.
For one, it had large deposits of coal and iron, both of which where used in industrial machinery. It also had navigable rivers and canals through which materials and finished produced could easily be transported to different factories and cities.
It was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into panic and wiped out millions of investors.