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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Today in History

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 to the pubic in Paris.
1861
Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent.
1864
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 Dreiser’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 the 26th president of the United States. He had been vice president until the assassination 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 the 32nd president of the United States.
1938
Crystal 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 the 35th president, defeating wingnut candidate Nixon in the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880.
1965
In the Vietnam War, Operation Hump takes place: the US 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Bien Hoa Province. Nearby, in the Gang Toi Hills, a company of the Royal Australian Regiment also engage Viet Cong forces.
1966
Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African-American elected to the Senate in 85 years.
1977
Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers what is believed to be the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina in northern Greece.
1983
Wilson B. Goode is elected as the first black mayor of the city of Philadelphia.
1987
A dozen people are killed and over 60 wounded when the IRA detonates a bomb during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, honoring those who had died in wars involving British forces.
2000
A dispute begins over the US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore; a Supreme Court ruling on Dec. 12 results in a 271-266 electoral victory for Bush.
2004
More than 10,000 US troops and a few Iraqi army units besiege an insurgent stronghold at Fallujah.
2013
Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, slams into the Philippines, with sustained winds of 195 mph (315 kph) and gusts up to 235 mph (380 kph); over 5,000 are killed (date is Nov 7 in US).

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