November 8

November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining.

Events

• 1519 - Hernan Cortes enters Tenochtitlan
• 1520 - Stockholm bloodbath takes place
• 1789 - Bourbon whiskey first distilled, in Bourbon County, Kentucky
• 1793 - Louvre museum opens
• 1861 - The "Trent Affair[?]" -- The USS San Jacinto stops the British mailship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, James Mason[?] and John Slidell[?]
• 1889 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
• 1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
• 1923 - "Beer Hall Putsch", unsuccessful Nazi attempt to overthrow the German government
• 1942 - "Operation Torch" - United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa[?]
• 1963 - Submarine eruption of Surtsey begins
• 1965 - British Indian Ocean Territory created
• 1966 - Edward Brooke[?] becomes first African-American elected to the United States Senate, from Massachusetts
• 2002 - UN Security Council unanimously approves Iraq resolution, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences" (see UN Security Council resolution on Iraq).

Births

• 35- Nerva, Roman emperor
• 1656 - Edmond Halley, British astronomer, mathematician
• 1836 - Milton Bradley, maufacturer, lithographer, game maker (+ 1911)
• 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist ("Dracula") (+ 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
• 1898 - Marie Prevost, actress (+ 1937)
• 1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (+ 1949)
• 1900 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete
• 1907 - Katherine Hepburn, American actress
• 1914 - Norman Lloyd[?], actor
• 1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer
• 1919 - P.L. Deshpande, Indian author
• 1920 - Esther Rolle[?], actress (+ 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 (+ 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

Deaths

• 911 - Louis the Child, last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks
• 955 - Pope Agapetus II
• 1226 - Louis VIII of France
• 1674 - John Milton, English poet
• 1953 - John van Melle, Dutch/South African author
• 1959 - Charles Starkweather[?], murderer (execution by electric chair)
• 1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator
• 1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician
• 1887 - Doc Holliday[?], dentist, gunfighter
• 1990 - Anya Seton, American author
• 1998 - Rumer Godden[?], novelist
• 1998 - Jean Marais[?], actor

Holidays and observances

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