This day in history – November 8
If you're a history buff, this is the perfect place to find out what happened on this day in history - November 8.
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• 392 Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion.
• 1520 Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
• 1602 The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened.
• 1734 Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands.
• 1789 Bourbon Whiskey first distilled from corn by Elijah Craig in Bourbon, Kentucky.
• 1833 Train derails at Hightstown New Jersey; two die.
• 1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts – first US college founded for women
• 1838 Victor Hugo’s “Ruy Blas” premieres in Paris
• 1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays.
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• 1904 Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug.
• 1910 William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer.
• 1935 “Mutiny on the Bounty” directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
• 1939 Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich.
• 1942 Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall.
• 1945 Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1 550.
• 1950 A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history
• 1962 Canada’s government orders the nickel changed back to round shape.
• 1964 IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion.
• 1965 “Days of Our Lives” premieres on TV.
• 1974 Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 1976 A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
• 1977 Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
• 1987 IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, North Ireland, 11 killed.
• 1988 900 die as earthquake hits China.
• 1999 “The World is Not Enough” 19th James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan, Robert Carlyle and Denise Richards premieres in Los Angeles.
• 1999 Tenor Andrea Bocelli releases his “Sacred Arias” album.
• 2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”
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• 2013 11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
• 2013 At least 6 000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm recorded at landfall, makes landfall in the Philippines.
• 2014 Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War.
Source: https://www.onthisday.com/