On November 8th...

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1226 King Louis VIII of France died.

1656 Astronomer Edmund Halley was born.

1674 Poet John Milton died.

1682 William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania.

1731 Benjamin Franklin opened the first library in the North American colonies, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1833 A train derailed at Hightstown, New Jersey, killing 2 persons.

1836 Businessman Milton Bradley was born.

1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary for Women opened.

1847 Author Bram Stoker was born.

1861 The USS San Jacinto captured two Confederate diplomats from the British mail steamer Trent.

1880 Sarah Bernhardt made her American debut.
1880 Edwin Laurentine Drake, driller of the first commercially successful oil well in the world, died.

1887 "Wild West" figure John Henry "Doc" Holliday died.

1889 Montana became the 41st state.

1893 Historian Francis Parkman died.

1895 Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen discovered x-rays.

1900 Novelist Margaret Mitchell was born.

1901 Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, American Civil War nurse and veterans' advocate, died.

1910 Women in Washington were given the right to vote in state elections.

1915 An Austrian-Hungarian submarine torpedoed and sank the Italian liner Ancona, killing more than 200 persons.

1920 Actress Esther Rolle was born.

1922 Christiaan Barnard, heart transplant pioneer, was born.

1923 Adolf Hitler staged the "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich.
1923 Jack St. Clair Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, was born.

1927 Singer Patti Page was born.

1931 Television journalist Morley Safer was born.

1933 The Civil Works Administration was created.
1933 King Mohammed Nadir Khan of Afghanistan was assassinated.

1936 Astronaut Edward G. Gibson was born.

1942 Allied forces landed in North Africa, launching Operation Torch.

1945 A riverboat sank off Hong Kong, killing 1,550 persons.

1947 Singer Minnie Riperton was born.

1949 Singer Bonnie Raitt was born.

1950 The first ever aerial combat between jet fighters took place over Korea.

1961 Ecuadorian President José Maria Velasco Ibarra was forced to resign.
1961 A chartered airliner crashed and burned near Richmond, Virginia, killing 81 persons.
1961 Singer Leif Garrett was born.

1965 An American Airlines Boeing 727 crashed near Cincinnati, Ohio, during a storm, killing 58 persons.
1965 The British Indian Ocean Territory was formed.
1965 "Days of Our Lives" premiered on NBC-TV.

1966 Edward W. Brooke became the first black to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate.
1966 Chef Gordon Ramsay was born.

1978 Artist Norman Rockwell died.

1980 Voyager 1 discovered Saturn's 15th moon.

2011 Cartoonist Bil Keane died.

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