On this day in history: 8th November: 392 - Roman 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 Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, 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 1658 - Battle of the Sound: Swedish fleet beats Dutch during 2nd Northern War 1734 - Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands 1842 - Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889) 1883 - English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) 1884 - German government recognizes King Leopold IIs Congo Free State 1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays 1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen observes X-rays for the first time during an experiment at Würzburg University, Germany 1901 - Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. 1907 - In a landmark decision for Australia, the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration rules that the Sunshine Harvester Work must pay fair and reasonable wages 1917 - Peoples Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin during October Revolution 1923 - Hitler stages unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch in Muenchen (Munich) 1924 - Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt 1937 - The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) opens in Munich. 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 1940 - RAF bombs Munich 1941 - The Albanian Communist Party is founded. 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 1943 - France arrests government of Lebanon after they abolish the French mandate 1944 - 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor 1944 - Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders 1945 - Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 1950 - 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War
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