This day in history – November 8

• 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.

• 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”

• 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/