Historical Events on 8th Novembers Doom 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 United States Founding Father Benjamin FranklinUnited States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin 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 Physicist and Nobel Laureate Wilhelm RöntgenPhysicist and Nobel Laureate Wilhelm Röntgen 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 Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 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 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 Writer Jean-Paul SartreWriter Jean-Paul Sartre 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 US President & Actor Ronald ReaganUS President & Actor Ronald Reagan 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) Playwright Tom StoppardPlaywright Tom Stoppard 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 Baseball Player Darryl StrawberryBaseball Player Darryl Strawberry 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. Iraqi President Saddam HusseinIraqi President Saddam Hussein 2011 - The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
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