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Today in History ~ November 8
Events0392 - Emperor Theodosius declares Christianity state religion
1494 - Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy
1519 - 1st meeting of Montezuma & Hernando Cortes in Mexico
1575 - French Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty
1620 - Battle of White Mountain, Prague
1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Privileges
1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
1789 - Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon, Ky)
1793 - Louvre in Paris, former royal palace, opens as museum. Louvre was originally constructed as a fortress in the early thirteenth century. [H]
1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts became the first American college founded exclusively for women.
1838 - Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas," premieres in Paris
1861 - Union Captain Charles Wilkes removes Confederate officials James M. Mason and John Slidell from British steamer Trent, in Old Bahama Channel (off Cuba) creates an international incident -- Lincoln's response to uproar: "One war at a time." Confederates released.
1864 - As the Civil War raged, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president.
1880 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY's Booth Theater
1889 - Montana was admitted to the Union as the 41st state.
1892 - Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays
1900 - Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
1904 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1917 - People's Commissars "give" authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin
1923 - Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich. First attempt at seizing control of the German government by force. [H]
1926 - George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay," premieres in NYC
1928 - George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl," premieres in NYC
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) opened in New York City
1932 - New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt(D) elected 32nd president for 1st time defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency.
1933 - President Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.
1939 - Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich
1939 - H Lindsay's & R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in NYC
1942 - Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
1942 - Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
1942 - Operation "Torch" began during World War II as more than 400,000 U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa. (Casablanca)
1944 - 25,000 Hungarian Jews are "loaned" to Nazis for forced labor
1945 - Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
1946 - Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse," premieres in Paris
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.
1953 - Salazar's party wins all parliament seats in Portugal
1956 - UN demands USSR leave Hungary
1959 - Tunisian pres Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair
1960 - Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy beats VP Richard M. Nixon (R) for 35th US president. JFK wins by 49.7-percent of the popular vote, surpassing by a fraction the 49.6-percent received by Nixon
1965 - "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV
1966 - Edward W. Brooke (R-Massachusetts) becomes the first African American elected to Senate.
1966 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
1966 - Pres Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
1970 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
1973 - Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
1974 - Bundy victim (#?) Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 - Charges are dropped against eight Ohio National Guardsmen for their role in the deaths of four anti-war protestors at Kent State University
1979 - ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")
1979 - Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy," premieres in NYC
1982 - A smoky fire set by a prisoner in a Biloxi, Miss., jail killed 28 people.
1985- A judge overturned Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's conviction for a 1966 triple murder in a Patterson, N.J., bar, freeing the former boxer after 19 years in prison.
1987 - IRA-bomb attack in Enniskillen North Ireland, 11 killed
1988 - Vice President George Bush won the presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. to become the 41st president of the United States.
1989 -Doctors said Massachusetts first lady Kitty Dukakis, an admitted alcoholic, had been hospitalized after drinking rubbing alcohol.
1990 - "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 performances
1990 - 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
1990 - Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1990 - William Bennett resigned as President Bush's national drug policy adviser.
1991 - The European Community and Canada imposed economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war.
1992 - 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin
1992 - A Paso Robles, Calif., man, angry about being evicted from his home, went on a shooting spree, killing six people before turning the gun on himself.
1993 - Toy maker Hasbro unveiled a new collection of six Elvis Presley limited edition commemorative dolls.
1994 - Doctors in Los Angeles said rocker David Crosby had been placed on a national waiting list for a new liver.
1994 - In a stunning upset, Republican candidates swept the general election, regaining control of both chambers of Congress. It marked the first time in 40 years the Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate.
1995 - Retired army general Colin Powell declared he would not seek the presidency.
1996 - Three days after his re-election, President Clinton said at a news conference that there always are "a lot of hard feelings" after elections, but he urged Republicans to put aside politically charged investigations and work with him to balance the budget and enact campaign finance reform.
1997 - Evander Holyfield scored an eighth-round TKO over Michael Moorer in Las Vegas, retaining his own WBF heavyweight title and adding Moorer's IBF belt.
2000 - Presidential Race between George Bush (R) and Al Gore (D) is the closest race since Kennedy / Nixion Race in 1960. A statewide recount began in Florida, which emerged as critical in deciding the winner of the 2000 presidential election. Early that day, Vice President Al Gore telephoned Texas Gov. George W. Bush to concede, but called back about an hour later to retract his concession.
2000 - Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report absolving the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.
2001 - A top aide said President Bush had "no plans" to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the U.N. General Assembly in New York because in the American view Arafat has not done enough to stop the violence in Israel and the West Bank.
Birthdays Today
1590 - Francesco Gonzaga, composer
1647 - Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologian/philosopher/writer
1656 - Edmund Halley (astronomer: first to observe the great comet of 1682 [known to us as Halley's Comet])
1830 - Oliver Otis Howard, Major General (Union volunteers), died n 1909
1831 - Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English writer
1847 - Bram Stoker (writer: Dracula)
1849 - Edward Julius Biedermann, composer
1883 - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, London England, composer (Farewell My Youth)
1900 - Margaret Mitchell (Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Gone with the Wind [1937])
1909 - Alberto Erede, Italian conductor
1909 - Katharine Hepburn, Ct, actress (African Queen, On Golden Pond)
1914 - Norman Lloyd (actor: St. Elsewhere, Journey of Honor, Jaws of Satan, Saboteur, The Southerner)
1916 - June Havoc (actress: Brewster's Millions, Gentlemen's Agreement, Sing Your Worries Away, Willy)
1916 - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1921 - Gene Saks (actor: A Fine Romance, Prisoner of Second Avenue, A Thousand Clowns; director: Barefoot in the Park, Mame, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower)
1921 - Walter Mirisch (Academy Award-winning producer: The Apartment [1960])
1922 - Christiaan Barnard (surgeon, medical pioneer: performed first known heart transplant [1967])
1924 - Joe Flynn (actor: The Tim Conway Show, McHale's Navy, The Joey Bishop Show, The George Gobel Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Superdad, Million Dollar Duck, The Barefoot Executive, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes)
1927 - Chris Conner (singer: I Miss You So, Trust in Me)
1927 - Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler) (singer: Tennessee Waltz, Old Cape Cod, I Went to Your Wedding, Doggie in the Window, Allegheny Moon, Steam Heat, Cross over the Bridge; in film: Elmer Gantry)
1931 - Morley Safer (news correspondent: 60 Minutes)
1933 - Esther Rolle (Academy Award-winning actress: Summer of My German Soldier [10/30/78]; Good Times, Maude, Good Times, Scarlett, Driving Miss Daisy, A Rasin in the Sun, The Mighty Quinn)
1935 - Alain Delon, France, actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro)
1942 - Angel Cordero (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer: Jockey of the Year [1982, 1983]; winner of Breeder's Cup [1985 Distaff, 1988 Juvenile Fillies, 1988 & 1989 Sprint), Kentucky Derby [1974, 1985], Preakness [1976, 1980, 1984], Belmont [1976])
1944 - Bonnie Bramlett (songwriter, singer: group: Delaney and Bonnie and Friends: Never Ending Song of Love, Only You Know and I Know)
1946 - Roy (Ulysses) Wood (musician, singer, songwriter: formed Electric Light Orchestra: 10538 Overture; group: Wizzard: See My Baby Jive, Angel Fingers, Dear Elaine, Forever)
1948 - Minnie Riperton (singer: Lovin' You; LP: Come to My Garden, Adventure in Paradise; group: Wonderlove)
1949 - Bonnie Raitt (Grammy Award-winning singer [1990]: Runaway, The Boy Can't Help It, Something to Talk About, Sweet Forgiveness; actress: Urban Cowboy; musician: guitar; daughter of actor, John Raitt)
1950 - Boobie (Charles) Clark (football)
1951 - Mary Hart (TV host: Entertainment Tonight)
1952 - Christie Hefner (magazine executive: Playboy; daughter of magazine's founder, Hugh Hefner)
1954 - Ricki Lee Jones (singer: Chuck E.'s in Love, On Saturday Afternoons in 1963)
1961 - Leif Garrett (actor: Spirit of '76, Thunder Alley, Kid Vengeance, Three for the Road; singer: I Was Made for Dancin')
Famous deaths
0397 - Martin of Tours, [St Martin], bishop of Tours, dies
1226 - Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39
1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
1674 - John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65
1817 - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
1887 - John Henry "Doc" Holliday--gunslinger, gambler, and occasional dentist--dies from tuberculosis. [H]
1890 - Cesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist/composer (Symphony in D), dies at 67
1908 - Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
1978 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
1991 - John Kirckpatrick, US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies
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