Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
On this day in the year 392, Emperor Theodosius declared Christianity the state religion. In 1895 German scientist discovered x-rays. On this day in 1917m Lenin, as the new leader in Russia, asked for an immediate armistice with Germany to get out of World War I. On this day in 1923 in Munich, Hitler and his Nazis attempted the ill-fated Beer Hall Putsch. More than a decade and a half later, on this day in 1939, a firmly in power Hitler survived an assassination attempt. In 1942 on this day, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a message to Petain and the people of Vichy France, warning them that they needed to assist the Allies in throwing out the Axis forces, or France's powerful empire would be at risk.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
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 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 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 Dreiser's 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 - 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
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
1929 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 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
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 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
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 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
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 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")
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 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
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.
1656 - Edmond Halley was born. Halley, an astronomer-mathmatician, was the first to calculate the orbit that was named after him. The comet makes an appearance every 76 years. 1793 - The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time. 1805 - The "Corps of Discovery" reached the Pacific Ocean. The expedition was lead by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. The journey had begun on May 14, 1804, with the goal of exploring the Louisiana Purchase territory. 1880 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her American stage debut in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" in New York City. 1887 - Doc Holliday died at the age of 35. The gun fighting dentist died from tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Glenwood Springs, CO. 1889 - Montana became the 41st U.S. state. 1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen while experimenting with electricity discovered the scientific principle involved and took the first X-ray pictures. 1910 - William H. Frost patented the insect exterminator. 1923 - Adolf Hitler made his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the "Beer-Hall Putsch." 1933 - The Civil Works Administration was created by executive order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed people in the U.S. 1939 - "Life With Father" premiered on Broadway in New York City. 1942 - The U.S. invaded Morocco and Algeria. 1942 - During World War II, Operation Torch began as U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa. 1950 - During the Korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15. 1954 - The American League approved the transfer of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team to Kansas City, MO. 1956 - After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided to name their new car the "Edsel," after Henry Ford's only son. 1959 - Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers, scored 64 points and set a National Basketball Association scoring record. 1965 - The soap opera "Days of Our Lives" debuted on NBC-TV. 1966 - Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote. 1966 - Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. 1979 - The program, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage", premiered on ABC-TV. The show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved into "Nightline" in March of 1980. 1979 - U.S. Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Mac Mathias (R-MD) introduced legislation to provide a site on the National Mall for the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 1980 - Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced that they had discovered a 15th moon orbiting the planet Saturn. 1981 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek asserted that Egypt was "an African State" that was "neither East nor West". 1985 - A letter signed by four American hostages in Lebanon was delivered to The Associated Press in Beirut. The letter, contained pleas from Terry Anderson, Rev. Lawrence Jenco, David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland to President Reagan to negotiate a release. 1986 - Vyacheslav M. Molotov died at age 96. During World War II, Molotov ordered the mass production of bottles filled with flammable liquid later called the "Molotov cocktail." 1987 - A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead. Eleven people were killed. 1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered more troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national force fighting against Iraq. 1991 - The European Community and Canada imposed economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war. 1992 - About 350,000 people rallied in Berlin against racist violence. 1993 - Five Picasso paintings and other artwork were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. The works were valued at $52 million. 1997 - Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. 2000 - In Florida, a statewide recount began to decide the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election. 2000 - Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report that absolved the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 seige of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas. 2001 - The "Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend" exhibit opened at the Appleton Museum of Art in Florida.
1889 Montana became the 41st state. 1892 Former president Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison and became the only president to win nonconsecutive terms in the White House. 1923 Adolf Hitler attempted, and failed, to seize control of the German government in the Beer Hall Putsch. 1960 John F. Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon for the presidency of the United States. 1966 Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. 1994 After a 40-year Democrat domination, the Republican Party gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a Senate majority.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov08.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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