Notable Historical Events on November 8th
November 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 |
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) |
1833 |
Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die |
1837 |
Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women |
1838 |
Victor Hugo's "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 NY's Booth Theater |
1883 |
English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) |
1884 |
German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
1889 |
Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union |
1892 |
Grover Cleveland (D) elected 24th US President |
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 |
1900 |
Theodore Dreiser's 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) |
1904 |
Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug |
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' |
1910 |
1st Washington State election in which women could vote |
1910 |
For the first time since 1894, the US elects a Democratic Congress, including the first socialist ever to sit in Congress, Victor L Berger of Milwaukee |
1910 |
William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer |
1917 |
People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin during October Revolution |
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 Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay" premieres in NYC |
1928 |
George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl" premieres in NYC |
1929 |
Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38" premieres in Paris |
1930 |
Friedrich Wolf's "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 |
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 |
"Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances |
1945 |
Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 |
1946 |
Jean-Paul Sartre's "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 |
Salazar's party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal |
1954 |
AL approves Philadelphia A's 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 Bourguiba's 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 |
President Lyndon B. 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 |
Londonderry Corporation agreed to a Nationalist request to introduce a points system in the allocation of public sector housing, North Ireland |
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 Stoppard's "Night & Day" premieres in London |
1979 |
Bernard Slade's "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 Kong's 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 |
1990 |
Unconfirmed rumors emerge that Bush might announce an airlift of supplies to US embassy in Kuwait, which could ultimately trigger a military clash |
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. |
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. |
2013 |
11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia |
2013 |
At least 6,000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm recorded at landfall, makes landfall in the Philippines |
2013 |
27th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Tamar Braxton win |
2014 |
Protests across New Zealand against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations |
2014 |
Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War |
2014 |
US President Obama authorises deployment of 1500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants |
2015 |
John Lennon's 'lost' acoustic guitar sells for $2.4 million |
2015 |
Polls open in Myanmar's freest elections in decades |
2015 |
Sinkhole in Mississippi swallows over a dozen cars |
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