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08 November, 2006

Kathiraveli November 2006 massacre. Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident

08 November, 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.

08 November, 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".

08 November, 1989

Hong Kongs MTR Lam Tin Station came into service.

08 November, 1987

Remembrance Day Bombing: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honouring Britains war dead, killing eleven people.

08 November, 1979

Foundation of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action).

08 November, 1978

In Singapore, Funky Dance Movement begins with birth of Siu-Pihn Chao FDM.

08 November, 1977

3,100 people mysteriously register to vote in Perry County, Ohio, unearthed by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee report investigating 2004 election inconsistencies in Ohio. Manolis Andronikos, a well known Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina, making one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century.

08 November, 1974

In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.

08 November, 1973

The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.

08 November, 1970

Tom Dempsey kicks a National Football League-record 63 yard (57.6 meter) field goal to give the New Orleans Saints a 19-17 victory over the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium.

08 November, 1966

Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

08 November, 1965

The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War.

08 November, 1950

Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.

08 November, 1942

Holocaust: In Ternopil, western Ukraine, German SS deport about 2,400 Jews from Ternopil ghetto to the Belzec death camp, so called "Second Aktion". When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city. World War II: Operation Torch - United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa. French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyst XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested vichyst generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole French North Africa.

08 November, 1941

Albanian Communist Party founded.

08 November, 1939

Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

08 November, 1938

A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.

08 November, 1937

The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("the eternal Jew") opens in Munich. The Chinese Youth Journalist Association was created in Shanghai. The day has become Chinese Journalist Day.

08 November, 1935

A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism. Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France

08 November, 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.

08 November, 1923

Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

08 November, 1917

Peoples Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josef Stalin.

08 November, 1895

While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.

08 November, 1889

Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

08 November, 1861

American Civil War: The "Trent Affair" – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mailship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.

08 November, 1837

Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which would later become Mount Holyoke College

08 November, 1793

In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.

08 November, 1620

The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.

08 November, 1602

The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.

08 November, 1576

Eighty Years War: Pacification of Ghent - The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.

08 November, 1520

Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.

08 November, 1519

Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.

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