Historical Events on 8th November 392 - Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion, state religion 911 - Duke Koenraad I chosen German king 1322 - Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht 1494 - Uprising against Piero de Medici in Florence Italy 1519 - 1st meeting of Montezuma & Hernán Cortés in Mexico 1520 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people. 1575 - French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty 1576 - Eighty Years War: Pacification of Ghent - 17 Dutch provinces sign anti-Spanish covenant 1598 - Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem 1602 - The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened 1620 - Battle of White Mountain, Prague 1627 - English fleet under George Villiers leaves Île de Ré 1638 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts 1658 - Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch 1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges 1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library 1734 - Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands 1789 - Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky) 1793 - Louvre in Paris opens 1833 - Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die 1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women 1838 - Victor Hugos Ruy Blas premieres in Paris 1842 - Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889) 1861 - Battle of Mount Ivy, KY 1861 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent 1864 - Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President 1870 - Democratic governor elected in Tennessee 1880 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NYs Booth Theater 1883 - English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) 1884 - German government recognizes King Leopold IIs Congo Free State 1889 - Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union 1892 - Grover Cleveland (D) elected president 1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays 1900 - Theodore Dreisers novel Sister Carrie is published 1901 - Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. 1904 - American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D) 1910 - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote 1917 - Peoples Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin 1917 - Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants 1918 - Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs 1920 - Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn 1920 - Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th 1923 - Hitler stages unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch in Muenchen (Munich) 1924 - Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt 1924 - Fortune Theatre opens in London 1926 - George Gershwins musical Oh, Kay premieres in NYC 1928 - George & Ira Gershwins musical Treasure Girl premieres in NYC 1929 - Jean Giraudoux Amphitryon 38 premieres in Paris 1929 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building 1930 - Friedrich Wolfs Die Matrosen von Cattaro premieres in Berlin 1932 - Make Mine Music debuts 1932 - Franklin Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd President for 1st time 1933 - FDR creates Civil Works Administration 1934 - Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president 1937 - The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) opens in Munich. 1938 - 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila 1938 - A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris. 1939 - Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich 1939 - H Lindsay & R Crouse Life with Father premieres in NYC 1940 - RAF bombs Munich 1941 - The Albanian Communist Party is founded. 1942 - 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) 1942 - Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall 1942 - Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa 1942 - Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US 1944 - 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor 1944 - Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders 1945 - Girl from Nantucket opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances 1945 - Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 1946 - Jean-Paul Sartres La Putain Respecteuse premieres in Paris 1947 - Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA v Victoria 1950 - 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War 1950 - Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year 1950 - Walt Dropo of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year 1951 - NY Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards 1953 - Salazars party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal 1954 - AL approves Philadelphia As move to Kansas City 1956 - UN demands USSR leave Hungary 1957 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1958 - Maria Golovin closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances 1959 - KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast 1959 - Tunisian president Habib Bourguibas Nes Destour party wins every seat 1960 - JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president 1961 - Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn 1962 - Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape 1964 - IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion 1964 - KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting 1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open 1964 - Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP 1965 - Days of Our Lives premieres on TV 1965 - British Indian Ocean Territory formed 1966 - Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate 1966 - Frank Robinson selected AL MVP 1966 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California 1966 - Pres Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger 1967 - 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester) 1967 - Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London 1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1968 - Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John 1970 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal 1973 - Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai 1974 - British Lord (Lucky) Lucan disappears 1974 - Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah 1975 - Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ 1976 - A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated. 1977 - Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. 1978 - Tom Stoppards Night & Day premieres in London 1979 - Bernard Slades Romantic Comedy premieres in NYC 1979 - ABC broadcasts Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to Nightline) 1979 - The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed. 1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn 1981 - Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election 1981 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1983 - Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky 1983 - STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad 1983 - W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia 1984 - 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test 1984 - Anna Fisher becomes 1st mom to go into orbit 1984 - STS 51-A mission launches 1985 - Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission 1986 - Song & Dance closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances 1987 - Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup 1987 - IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, North Ireland, 11 killed 1987 - Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1988 - 900 die as earthquake hits China 1988 - Arco Arena in Sacramento CA opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75 1988 - George W H Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency 1988 - Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico 1989 - Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year 1989 - David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of NYC 1989 - Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (Virginia) 1989 - Hong Kongs MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service. 1990 - 6 Degrees of Separation opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs 1990 - 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf 1990 - Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers 1990 - Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World 1990 - Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula 1991 - Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV 1991 - Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal 1992 - Solitary Confinement opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 perfs 1992 - 300,000 demonstrate against racism in Berlin 1992 - Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1994 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98 1994 - Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms 1997 - Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild 1997 - Horse Racing Breeders Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away 1998 - Japan Golf Classic 2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face serious consequences. 2004 - War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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