Historical Events and Current Affairs on November 8

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 & Hern ndo Cort?s in Mexico
1575 : French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty
1576 : Pacificatie of Gent: 17 Dutch provinces signs anti-Spanish covenant
1598 : Spanish troops under of Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1620 : Battle of White Mountain, Prague
1627 : English fleet under George Villiers leaves Rh?
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 : Cook Vincent la Chapelle forms Free Masons Lodge
1789 : Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
1793 : Louvre in Paris, opens
1805 : Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean
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 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 govt recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 : Montana admitted as 41st state
1892 : Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
1900 : Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
1904 : Pres Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1910 : 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1917 : People's 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
1923 : Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in M?nchen (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
1929 : NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1930 : Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro," premieres in Berlin
1932 : "Make Mine Music," debuts
1932 : Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time
1933 : FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1934 : Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president
1939 : Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in B?rgerbraukeller, M?nich
1939 : H Lindsay & R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in NYC
1940 : RAF bombs Munich
1942 : Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa (Casablanca)
1942 : Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
1942 : Operation "Torch" began as US & British forces land in French N Afr
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 Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse," premieres in Paris
1950 : 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War
1950 : Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year
1950 : In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place
1953 : Salazars party wins all parliament 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 pres Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair
1960 : JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th US president
1961 : Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
1962 : Canada govt 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
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 : Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
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
1973 : Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
1974 : British Lord Lucan disappears
1974 : Bundy victim (?) Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1978 : Tom Stoppard's "Night & Day," premieres in London
1979 : ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank
1979 : Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy," premieres in NYC
1979 : Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")
1980 : Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1981 : Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
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 : Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit
1984 : STS 51-A mission; launch
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 : 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes
1987 : IRA-bomb attack in Enniskillen North Ireland, 11 killed
1988 : 900 die as earthquake hits China
1988 : George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency
1988 : Rafael Fern ndez Col?n elected if pres of Puerto Rico
1989 : David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of NYC
1989 : Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (Virginia)
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
1992 : "Solitary Confinement" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1992 : 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin
1994 : Haitian govt of Smarck Michel forms
1997 : Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away
1997 : Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild

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