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November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 53 days remaining.
Events
1500-1899
1900-1999 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch : In Munich , Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.1932 - U.S. presidential election, 1932 : Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.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.1935 - A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress for Industrial Organization (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism .1935 - Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France 1937 - The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude Jew ") opens in Munich .1939 - Venlo Incident : Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.1939 - In Munich , Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch . 1942 - World War II : Operation Torch - United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa .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 dog fight in history.1960 - U.S. presidential election, 1960 : John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon , becoming the youngest man elected to that office.1965 - The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago , Aldabra , Farquhar and Des Roches islands.1965 - The soap opera Days of Our Lives NBC in the United States . 1966 - Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate .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 .1974 - In Salt Lake City, Utah , Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy .1987 - Enniskillen massacre: In Enniskillen , Northern Ireland , an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing eleven people.1988 - U.S. presidential election, 1988 : George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis .1991 - Sonny Bono is elected to the U.S. Congress ; at the same time, Marion Barry is reelected mayor of Washington, D.C. .1994 - For the first time in 40 years the United States Republican Party takes control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.1997 - US president Bill Clinton speaks at a dinner sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign , the USA 's largest gay rights organisation.1997 - A newborn baby is found at a toilet in Walt Disney World 's "Magic Kingdom"; the mother remains unknown.
2000-2099
Births
1-1899 35 - Nerva , Roman emperor1622 - Charles X Gustav , king of Sweden 1656 - Edmond Halley , British astronomer, mathematician (birthday according to the Gregorian calendar) 1836 - Milton Bradley , manufacturer, lithographer, game maker (d. 1911 )1847 - Bram Stoker , Irish novelist (Dracula ) (d. 1912 )1848 - Gottlob Frege , German mathematician and logician1866 - Herbert Austin, automobile pioneer (Austin_Healey )1868 - Felix Hausdorff , German mathematician (d. 1942 )1883 - Arnold Bax , composer1884 - Hermann Rorschach, psychiatrist1893 - Clarence Williams , American jazz pianist and composer (d. 1965 )1896 - Bucky Harris , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1977 )1898 - Marie Prevost , actress (d. 1937 )
1900-1999 1900 - Margaret Mitchell , American author (d. 1949 )1900 _ Charlie Paddock , American athlete 1904 - Cedric Belfrage writer, socialist1907 - Katherine Hepburn actress (d. 2003 )1908 - Martha Gellhorn , American writer and journalist (d. 1998 )1914 - Norman Lloyd, actor1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer1919 - P.L. Deshpande , Indian author1920 - Esther Rolle , actress (d. 1998 )1922 - Christiaan Barnard , South African heart surgeon1927 - Patti Page , singer1927 - Nguyen Khanh , Prime Minister of South Vietnam 1927/1929 - Lal Krishna Advani , Indian politician 1931 - Morley Safer , journalist1931 - Darla Hood , actress (d. 1979 ) 1935 - Alain Delon , actor1949 - Bonnie Raitt , American singer1953 - Alfre Woodard , actress1954 - Jeanette McGruder , musician (P Funk )1954 - Rickie Lee Jones , singer, composer1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith , actress1968 - Parker Posey , actress
2000-2099
Deaths 911 - Louis the Child , last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks 955 - Pope Agapetus II 1226 - Louis VIII of France 1308 - Duns Scotus , Scottish philosopher1674 - John Milton , English poet1719 - Michel Rolle , mathematician (b. 1652 )1887 - Doc Holliday , dentist, gunfighter1890 - César Franck , composer and organist1945 - August von Mackensen , German Field Marshal (b. 1849 )1953 - John van Melle , Dutch /South African author1977 - Bucky Harris , Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896 )1978 - Norman Rockwell , American illustrator1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov , Soviet politician1990 - Anya Seton , American author1998 - Rumer Godden , novelist1998 - Jean Marais , actor 2002 - Rudolf Noelte, theatre director2002 - Jost Schillemeit, literature researcher
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Today in History: November 8 (681 words)
On November 8 , 1861 , U.S . Navy Captain Charles Wilkes commanded the crew of the U.S.S. San Jacinto to stop the British steamer Trent and arrest Confederate diplomats James M. Mason and John Slidell. En route to Europe to rally support for the Confederate cause, the men were brought ashore and imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. On November 8 , 1906 , cameraman Fred A. Dobson began filming The Skyscrapers of New York atop an uncompleted skyscraper at Broadway and 12th Street.
General Audience, 8 November 2006 (1342 words)
These last words themselves are symptomatic: for Paul, in fact, it was not enough to say that Christians are baptized or believers; for him, it was just as important to say they are "in Christ Jesus" (cf. At other times he inverted the words and wrote: "Christ is in us/you" (Rom 8 : 10; II Cor 13: 5) or "in me" (Gal 2: 20). Moreover, our radical belonging to Christ and the fact that "we are in him" must imbue in us an attitude of total trust and immense joy.
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