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November 8

392   Theodosius of Rome passes legislation prohibiting all pagan worship in the empire.
1226   Louis IX succeeds Louis VIII as king of France.
1576   The 17 provinces of the Netherlands form a federation to maintain peace.
1620   The King of Bohemia is defeated at the Battle of Prague.
1685   Fredrick William of Brandenburg issues the Edict of Potsdam, offering Huguenots refuge.
1793   The Louvre opens in Paris. But wasn’t it already a Palace and it merely opens to the people?
1861   Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent.
1864   President Abraham Lincoln is re-elected in the first wartime election in the United States.
1887   Doc Holliday, who fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 6 years earlier, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
1889   Montana becomes the 41st state of the Union.
1900   Theodore Dresier’s first novel Sister Carrie is published by Doubleday, but is recalled from stores shortly due to public sentiment.
1904   President Theodore Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. He had been vice president until the shooting death of President William McKinley.
1910   The Democrats prevail in congressional elections for the first time since 1894.
1923   Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, the "Beer Hall Putsch," and proclaims himself chancellor and Ludendorff dictator. .
1932   Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected 32nd president of the United States.
1938   Crystla Bird Fauset of Pennsylvania, becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to a state legislature.
1942   The United States and Great Britain invade Axis-occupied North Africa.
1960   John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880.
1966   Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African American elected to the Senate in 85 years.
1983   Wilson B. Goode is elected as the first black mayor of the city of Philadelphia.
1988   George H. Bush is elected the 41st president of the United States.

Born on November 8

1656   Edmond Halley, mathematician and astronomer who predicted the return of the comet that bears his name.
1847   Bram Stoker, author (Dracula).
1878   Marshall Walter Taylor, "Major Taylor," the world’s fastest bicycle racer for a 12-year period.
1879   Leon Trosky, Russian Communist leader.
1884   Hermann Rorshach, Swiss psychiatrist, inventor of the inkblot test.
1900   Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling, Swiss botanist and molecular biology pioneer.
1900   Margaret Mitchell, American writer who found success in her first and only novel, Gone With the Wind.
1909   Katherine Hepburn, American actress who won four Oscars. Her movies included Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and The African Queen.
1916   Peter Ulrich Weiss, German novelist and dramatist (Marat/Sade, The Investigation).
1922   Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon, performed the first human heart transplant operation.

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