| 392 |
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Theodosius of Rome passes legislation prohibiting all pagan worship in the empire. |
| 1226 |
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Louis IX succeeds Louis VIII as king of France. |
| 1576 |
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The 17 provinces of the Netherlands form a federation to maintain peace. |
| 1620 |
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The King of Bohemia is defeated at the Battle of Prague. |
| 1685 |
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Fredrick William of Brandenburg issues the Edict of Potsdam, offering Huguenots refuge. |
| 1793 |
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The Louvre opens in Paris. But wasn’t it already a Palace and it merely opens to the people? |
| 1861 |
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Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent. |
| 1864 |
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President Abraham Lincoln is re-elected in the first wartime election in the United States. |
| 1887 |
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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 |
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Montana becomes the 41st state of the Union. |
| 1900 |
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Theodore Dresier’s first novel Sister Carrie is published by Doubleday, but is recalled from stores shortly due to public sentiment. |
| 1904 |
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President Theodore Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. He had been vice president until the shooting death of President William McKinley. |
| 1910 |
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The Democrats prevail in congressional elections for the first time since 1894. |
| 1923 |
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Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, the "Beer Hall Putsch," and proclaims himself chancellor and Ludendorff dictator. . |
| 1932 |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected 32nd president of the United States. |
| 1938 |
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Crystla Bird Fauset of Pennsylvania, becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to a state legislature. |
| 1942 |
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The United States and Great Britain invade Axis-occupied North Africa. |
| 1960 |
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John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880. |
| 1966 |
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Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African American elected to the Senate in 85 years. |
| 1983 |
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Wilson B. Goode is elected as the first black mayor of the city of Philadelphia. |
| 1988 |
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George H. Bush is elected the 41st president of the United States. |
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Born on November 8 |
| 1656 |
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Edmond Halley, mathematician and astronomer who predicted the return of the comet that bears his name. |
| 1847 |
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Bram Stoker, author (Dracula). |
| 1878 |
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Marshall Walter Taylor, "Major Taylor," the world’s fastest bicycle racer for a 12-year period. |
| 1879 |
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Leon Trosky, Russian Communist leader. |
| 1884 |
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Hermann Rorshach, Swiss psychiatrist, inventor of the inkblot test. |
| 1900 |
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Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling, Swiss botanist and molecular biology pioneer. |
| 1900 |
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Margaret Mitchell, American writer who found success in her first and only novel, Gone With the Wind. |
| 1909 |
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Katherine Hepburn, American actress who won four Oscars. Her movies included Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and The African Queen. |
| 1916 |
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Peter Ulrich Weiss, German novelist and dramatist (Marat/Sade, The Investigation). |
| 1922 |
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Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon, performed the first human heart transplant operation. |
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