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November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years)
in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining.
Events
- 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters
Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler
Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
- 1520 - Stockholm
Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under the command of Christian II of Denmark results in the execution of around 100 persons (mostly nobility and clergy
involved in the previous Swedish war effort).
- 1576 - Eighty Years'
War: Pacification of Ghent - The States-General of the Netherlands meet and
unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
- 1793 - In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
- 1861 - American Civil
War: The "Trent Affair" – The USS San Jacinto stops the United
Kingdom mailship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, James Mason
and John Slidell, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
- 1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
- 1889 - Montana is admitted as the 41st
U.S. state.
- 1892 - U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin
Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his
non-consecutive terms.
- 1895 - While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
- 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch:
In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the
Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- 1932 - U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert
Hoover in a landslide victory.
- 1933 - Great Depression:
New Deal - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of
the unemployed.
- 1935 - A dozen labor leaders come
together to announce the creation of the Congress for Industrial Organization (CIO), an organization charged
with pushing the cause for industrial unionism.
- 1935 Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1939 - Venlo Incident: Two
British agents of SIS are captured by the
Germans.
- 1939 - In Munich, Adolf
Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
- 1942 - World War II: Operation Torch - United
States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
- 1950 - Korean War: While in an
F-80, United States
Air Force Lt. Russell J.
Brown intercepts two North Korean MiG-15s near the Yalu River and shots them down in the first
jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
- 1960 - U.S. presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M.
Nixon, becoming the youngest man to hold that office.
- 1965 - The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands (on June 23, 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches were
returned to Seychelles).
- 1965 - The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts.
- 1966 - Former Massachusetts
Attorney General Edward Brooke
becomes the first African-American elected to the United States Senate.
- 1974 - In Salt Lake
City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted
Bundy.
- 1987 - Enniskillen massacre: In Enniskillen,
Northern Ireland, an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing eleven
people.
- 1988 - U.S. presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael
Dukakis.
- 1994 - Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the
United States Republican Party in
taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections: the first time in 40 years the Republicans secured control
of both houses of Congress).
- 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".
Births
- 35- Nerva, Roman emperor
- 1622 - Charles X
Gustav, king of Sweden
- 1656 - Edmond Halley, British astronomer, mathematician
- 1836 - Milton Bradley,
manufacturer, lithographer, game maker (d. 1911)
- 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist ("Dracula") (d. 1912)
- 1848 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician
- 1866 - Herbert Austin, automobile pioneer (Austin-Healey)
- 1868 - Felix Hausdorff,
German mathematician
- 1883 - Arnold Bax, composer
- 1884 - Hermann Rorschach, psychiatrist
- 1893 - Clarence
Williams, American jazz pianist and composer (d.
1965)
- 1896 - Bucky Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1977)
- 1898 - Marie Prevost, actress
(d. 1937)
- 1900 - Margaret
Mitchell, American author (d. 1949)
- 1900 - Charlie Paddock,
American athlete
- 1914 - Norman Lloyd, actor
- 1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer
- 1919 - P.L. Deshpande,
Indian author
- 1920 - Esther Rolle, actress (d.
1998)
- 1922 - Christiaan
Barnard, South African heart
surgeon
- 1927 - Patti Page, singer
- 1927 - Nguyen Khanh, Prime
Minister of South Vietnam
- 1931 - Morley Safer, journalist
- 1931 - Darla Hood, actress (d.
1979)
- 1935 - Alain Delon, actor
- 1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American singer
- 1953 - Alfre Woodard,
actress
- 1954 - Jeanette
McGruder, musician (P Funk)
- 1954 - Rickie Lee Jones,
singer, composer
- 1968 - Parker Posey, actress
- 2003 - Lady Louise
Windsor, daughter of Prince Edward,
Earl of Wessex
Deaths
- 911 - Louis the Child, last
Carolingian ruler of the East Franks
- 955 - Pope Agapetus II
- 1226 - Louis VIII of
France
- 1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish
philosopher
- 1674 - John Milton, English
poet
- 1719 - Michel Rolle,
mathematician (b. 1652)
- 1887 - Doc Holliday, dentist,
gunfighter
- 1890 - César Franck, composer
and organist
- 1953 - John van Melle,
Dutch/South African
author
- 1977 - Bucky Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896)
- 1978 - Norman Rockwell,
American illustrator
- 1986 - Vyacheslav
Molotov, Soviet politician
- 1990 - Anya Seton, American author
- 1998 - Rumer Godden,
novelist
- 1998 - Jean Marais, actor
- 2002 - James Coburn, actor
- 2002 - Rudolf Noelte,
theatre director
- 2002 - Jost
Schillemeit, literature researcher
Holidays and observances
November 7 - November 9 -
October 8 - December 8 --
listing of all dates
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