On this day in History – Nov. 8 Novembro 8, 2008

• 0035 – Nerva was born (d. 0098). Roman Emperor.
• 0618 – Deusdedit/Adeodatus I dies. Italian Pope (615-18).
• 0911 – Louis the Child dies (b. 0893). Last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks.
• 0955 – Pope Agapetus II dies
• 1171 – Baldwin IV dies (b. 1108). Count of Hainaut.
• 1195 – Conrad of Hohenstaufen dies.
• 1226 – King Louis VIII of France dies (b. 1187)
• 1246 – Berenguela of Castile dies (b. 1180). Wife of Alfonso IX of Castile
• 1308 – Duns Scotus dies. Scottish philosopher
• 1342 – Julian of Norwich was born (d. 1416). English saint.
• 1431 – Vlad III the Impaler was born (d. 1476). Wallachian prince.
• 1491 – Teofilo Folengo was born (d. 1544). Italian poet.
• 1497 – Vasco da Gama batiza com o nome de Santa Helena uma baía que descobre a caminho das Índias
• 1517 – Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros dies (b. 1436). Spanish statesman.
• 1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
• 1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 persons.
• 1527 – Jerome Emser dies (b. 1477). German theologian.
• 1538 – Nascimento de D. Maria – filha de D. Duarte (duque de Guimarães) e D. Isabel
• 1576 – Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
• 1599 – Francisco Guerrero dies (b. 1528). Spanish composer.
• 1600 – Natsuka Masaie dies (b. 1562). Japanese warlord.
• 1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
• 1605 – Robert Catesby dies (b. 1573). English conspirator.
• 1620 – The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years’ War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
• 1622 – King Charles X of Sweden was born (d. 1660).
• 1656 – Edmond Halley was born (d. 14 Jan 1742). British astronomer [first to observe the return of the comet of 1682 (known to us as Halley’s Comet)] and mathematician.
• 1658 – Witte Corneliszoon de With dies (b. 1599). Dutch naval officer.
• 1674 – John Milton dies (b. 1608). English poet whose Paradise Lost is regarded as the greatest epic poem in the English language and who exerted a major influence on the history of English literature, culture, and libertarian thought.
• 1694 – Leonhard Trautsch was born (d. 1762). German composer.
• 1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer was born (d. 1772). German judge and philosopher.
• 1710 – Sarah Fielding was born (d. 1768). English writer.
• 1715 – Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern was born (d. 1797). Wife of Frederick II of Prussia.
• 1719 – Michel Rolle dies (b. 1652). French mathematician.
• 1723 – John Byron was born (d. 1786). British naval officer.
• 1765 – Martin Navarrete was born (d. 8 Oct 1844). Spanish navigator and writer.
• 1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1840).
• 1777 – Désirée Clary was born (d. 1860). Queen of Sweden.
• 1793 – In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
• 1817 – Andrea Apianni dies (b. 1754). Italian painter.
• 1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies dies (b. 1777).
• 1836 – Milton Bradley was born (d. 1911). American lithographer and game manufacturer.
• 1837 – One of the first institutions of higher education for women in the United States, Mount Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) opened in Massachusetts founded by Mary Lyon.
• 1847 – Bram Stoker was born (d. 1912). Irish novelist.
• 1847 – Jean Casimir-Périer was born (d. 1907). French politician.
• 1848 – Gottlob Frege was born (d. 1925). German mathematician and logician.
• 1854 – Johannes Rydberg was born (d. 1919). Swedish physicist.
• 1854 – Teófilo Dias was born in Caxias (d. 1889). Brazilian journalist and poet.
• 1860 – António Augusto Soares dos Passos dies (b. 1826). Portuguese ultra-romantic poet.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The “Trent Affair” – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mailship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
• 1864 – U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
• 1865 – Pedro Diez Canseco is reelected President of Peru.
• 1866 – Herbert Austin was born (d. 1941). English automobile pioneer.
• 1868 – Felix Hausdorff was born (d. 1942). German mathematician.
• 1869 – Zinaida Gippius was born (d. 1945). Russian woman-poet in exile in France.
• 1883 – Arnold Bax was born (d. 1953). English composer.
• 1884 – Hermann Rorschach was born (d. 1922). Swiss psychiatrist.
• 1885 – Emil Fahrenkamp was born (d. 1966). German architect.
• 1885 – Hans Cloos was born (d. 1951). German geologist.
• 1885 – Tomoyuki Yamashita was born (d. 1946). Japanese general.
• 1887 – Doc Holliday dies (b. 1851). American gambler and gunfighter.
• 1888 – David Monrad Johansen was born (d. 1974). Norwegian composer.
• 1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
• 1890 – César Franck dies (b. 1822). Belgian composer and organist.
• 1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
• 1892 – U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
• 1893 – Clarence Williams was born (d. 1965). American jazz pianist and composer.
• 1893 – Prajadhipok was born (d. 1941). Rama VII, king of Thailand.
• 1893 – Nascimento de Antonio Ildefonse dos Santos Silva (bispo angolano nascido em Portugal)
• 1895 – While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
• 1895 – Photios Kontoglou was born (d. 1965). Greek writer, painter and iconographer.
• 1896 – Bucky Harris was born (d. 1977). American baseball player.
• 1897 – Dorothy Day was born (d. 1980). American social activist.
• 1898 – Marie Prevost was born (d. 1937). Canadian actress.
• 1899 – The Bronx Zoo opens.
• 1900 – Charlie Paddock was born (d. 1943). American athlete.
• 1900 – Margaret Mitchell was born (d. 16 Aug 1949). American, Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Gone with the Wind [1937];
• 1900 – Charlie Paddock was born (d. 1943). American athlete.
• 1901 – Alfredo Ferraz was born. Portuguese World Champion in billiard (1939).
• 1901 – Bloody clashes in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into the demotic Greek.
• 1904 – Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, who had succeeded the assassinated William McKinley, was elected to a term in his own right this day. He defeated Democrat Alton B. Parker, 7,628,461 votes to 5,084,223 and 336 Electoral College votes to 140.
• 1904 – Cedric Belfrage was born (d. 1990). English-born writer.
• 1905 – Marco Aurelio Robles Méndez was born. President of Panamá (1964-1968)
• 1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov dies (b. 1870). Russian painter.
• 1908 – Martha Gellhorn was born (d. 1998). American writer and journalist.
• 1908 – Victorien Sardou dies (b. 5 Sep 1831). French dramatist.
• 1913 – June Havoc was born. American actress.
• 1914 – Norman Lloyd was born in Jersey City. American actor: St. Elsewhere, Journey of Honor, Jaws of Satan, Saboteur, The Southerner .
• 1914 – José Pedro Machado was born in Faro (d. 2005). Portuguese philologist and publisher.
• 1916 – June Havoc was born in Vancover. Canadian actress: Brewster’s Millions, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Sing Your Worries Away, Willy
• 1916 – Peter Weiss was born in Germany. German born Swedish author, dramatist and novelist.
• 1917 – People’s Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josef Stalin.
• 1917 – Colin Blythe dies (b. 1879). English cricketer.
• 1918 – Hermann Zapf was born. German designer.
• 1919 – P.L. Deshpande was born. Indian author.
• 1920 – Esther Rolle was born (d. 17 Nov 1998). American Academy Award-winning actress: Summer of My German Soldier; Good Times, Maude, Scarlett, Driving Miss Daisy, A Raisin in the Sun, The Mighty Quinn.
• 1920 – Eugênio de Araújo Sales was born. Brazilian cardinal.
• 1921 – Gene Saks was born in New York. Actor: A Fine Romance, Prisoner of Second Avenue, A Thousand Clowns; Director: Barefoot in the Park, Mame, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower
• 1921 – Walter Mirisch was born in New York City. Academy Award-winning producer: The Apartment [1960]. President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1973 to 1977.
• 1921 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav dies (b. 1849). Slovak poet.
• 1922 – Christiaan Barnard was born. South African heart surgeon who performed first known heart transplant [1967];
• 1922 – Ademir Marques de Menezes was born (d. 1996). Brazilian football player.
• 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
• 1923 – Jack Kilby was born (d. 2005). American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate.
• 1924 – Joe Flynn was born (d. 19 Jul 1974). Actor: The Tim Conway Show, McHale’s Navy, The Joey Bishop Show, The George Gobel Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Superdad, Million Dollar Duck, The Barefoot Executive, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes;
• 1926 – APOEL FC is founded in Nicosia, Cyprus.
• 1927 – Ken Dodd was born. English comedian.
• 1927 – Nguyen Khanh was born. Prime Minister of South Vietnam.
• 1927 – Patti Page was born in Claremore, Oklahoma. American singer: Tennessee Waltz, Old Cape Cod, I Went to Your Wedding, Doggie in the Window, Allegheny Moon, Steam Heat, Cross over the Bridge; Actress: Elmer Gantry.
• 1927 – Chris Connor was born. Jazz singer.
• 1929 – António Castanheira Neves was born. Portuguese legal philosopher.
• 1929 – Bobby Bowden was born. American football coach.
• 1931 – Morley Safer was born. Canadian journalist.
• 1931 – Darla Hood was born (d. 1979). American actress.
• 1932 – U.S. presidential election, 1932: During the Great Depression Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt easily defeated Herbert Hoover to win the presidency of the United States.
• 1933 – Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
• 1933 – Peter Arundell was born. British racing driver.
• 1934 – Carlos Chagas dies (b. 1879). Brazilian physician.
• 1935 – A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress for Industrial Organization (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism.
• 1935 – Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1935 – Alain Delon was born. French actor ( Nouvelle Vague, The Concorde: Airport ’79, Gypsy, Red Sun, Is Paris Burning?, Honor Among Thieves, Rocco and His Brothers, Sois Belle et Tais-Toi, Return of Zorro )
• 1935 – Alfonso López Trujillo was born. Colombian Cardinal Bishop.
• 1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“the eternal Jew“) opens in Munich.
• 1937 – The Chinese Youth Journalist Association was created in Shanghai. The day has become Chinese Journalist Day.
• 1938 – A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
• 1938 – Driss Basri was born (d. 2007). Moroccan Interior Minister.
• 1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
• 1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
• 1941 – The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
• 1941 – Rodney Slater was born. Musician: saxophone, trumpet: group: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: I’m the Urban Spaceman, Look at Me I’m Wonderful, Bad Blood, Straight from My Heart.
• 1942 – Holocaust: In Ternopil, western Ukraine, German SS deport about 2,400 Jews from Ternopil ghetto to the Belzec death camp, so called “Second Aktion”. When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city.
• 1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
• 1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyst XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested vichyst generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole French North Africa.
• 1942 – Angel Cordero Jr. was born. Puerto Rican jockey. National Horse Racing Hall of Famer: Jockey of the Year [1982, 1983]; winner of Breeder’s Cup [1985 Distaff, 1988 Juvenile Fillies, 1988 & 1989 Sprint), Kentucky Derby [1974, 1985], Preakness [1976, 1980, 1984], Belmont [1976].
• 1943 – Martin Peters was born. English football player.
• 1944 – Bonnie Bramlett was born. Songwriter, singer: group: Delaney and Bonnie and Friends: Never Ending Song of Love, Only You Know and I Know
• 1944 – Ed Kranepool was born. Baseball: NY Mets [only player to have played in each of Mets’ first 17 seasons; holds Mets’ record for most games played: 1853].
• 1945 – Don Murray was born. American drummer (The Turtles).
• 1945 – August von Mackensen dies (b. 1849). German Field Marshal.
• 1946 – Guus Hiddink was born. Dutch football (soccer) coach.
• 1946 – Roy Wood was born. English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra).
• 1947 – Minnie Riperton was born (d. 12 Jul 1979). American singer: Lovin’ You; LP: Come to My Garden, Adventure in Paradise; group: Wonderlove;
• 1949 – Alan Berger was born. Rocker Musician: bass: group: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes: I Don’t Wanna Go Home, The Fever, This Time It’s for Real, Love on the Wrong Side of Town, When You Dance, Hearts of Stone.
• 1949 – Bonnie Raitt was born. Grammy Award-winning singer [1990]: Runaway, The Boy Can’t Help It, Something to Talk About, Sweet Forgiveness; actress: Urban Cowboy; musician: guitar;
• 1949 – Wayne LaPierre was born. Executive Vice Presidenf of the National Rifle Association.
• 1949 – Cyriel Verschaeve dies (b. 1874). Belgian clergyman.
• 1950 – Charles ‘Boobie’ Clark was born (d. 25 Oct 1988). Football player: Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Oilers;
• 1950 – Mary Hart was born. American television personality: Entertainment Tonight.
• 1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dog fight in history.
• 1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the “Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
• 1951 – Alfredo Astiz was born. Argentine general.
• 1952 – Jan Raas was born. Dutch cyclist.
• 1952 – Christie Hefner was born. CEO of Playboy Enterprises; daughter of Hugh Hefner.
• 1952 – Jerry Remy was born. American baseball player, color commentator.
• 1952 – John Denny was born. Baseball player.
• 1952 – Maria Isabel Rodrigues Branco was born. Portuguese stylist.
• 1953 – Alfre Woodard was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Hill Street Blues: Alice in Wonderland [1983-1984]; guest performance: L.A. Law [1986-1987]; St. Elsewhere, Tucker’s Witch, Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Bopha, Heart and Souls
• 1953 – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin dies (b. 1870). Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1953 – John van Melle dies (b. 1887). South African author.
• 1954 – David Bret was born. Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster.
• 1954 – Jeanette McGruder was born. American musician (P Funk)
• 1954 – Kazuo Ishiguro was born. British author.
• 1954 – Michael D. Brown was born. U.S. Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response.
• 1954 – Rickie Lee Jones was born. American singer and composer Chuck E.’s in Love, On Saturday Afternoons in 1963.
• 1956 – Comet Arend-Roland was discovered.
• 1956 – Richard Curtis was born. British screenwriter.
• 1956 – Steven Miller was born. American record producer.
• 1956 – Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
  1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. Two tests earlier that year were publicly hailed as successful, but in fact largely failed.
• 1957 – Porl Thompson was born. British musician (The Cure).
• 1957 – Alan Curbishley was born. English football manager.
• 1958 – Don Byron was born. American clarinetist.
• 1959 – Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba’s Nes Destour party wins every chair.
• 1959 – Frank Sherman Land dies (b. 1890). Founder of DeMolay International.
• 1960 – U.S. presidential election, 1960: John F. Kennedy is elected (narrowly) over Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.
• 1960 – Oleg Menshikov was born. Russian actor.
• 1960 – Michael Nyqvist was born. Swedish actor.
• 1961 – Leif Garrett was born. American singer and actor.
• 1964 – Habib Burguiba is reelected President of Tunisia.
• 1964 – Judy Garland and her daughter, Liza Minnelli, appeared together at the London Palladium. The program was shown on U.S. TV; and the LP, Live at the London Palladium became a classic on Capitol Records.
• 1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
• 1965 – The Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
• 1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War.
• 1965 – The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC in the United States.
• 1965 – Craig Chester was born. American actor and screenwriter.
• 1965 – Jeff Blauser was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen dies (b. 1913). American newspaper columnist.
• 1965 – Edgard Varése dies. French composer.
• 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
• 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
• 1966 – Gordon Ramsay was born. British chef.
• 1967 – Courtney Thorne-Smith was born. American actress.
• 1967 – Henry Rodriguez was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1968 – Parker Posey was born. American actress.
• 1968 – Sergio Porrini was born. Italian footballer.
• 1968 – Zara Whites was born. Dutch porn actress.
• 1968 – Wendell Corey dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 1969 – Roxana Zal was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Something about Amelia [1984]; Shattered Spirits, Under the Boardwalk, Goodbye, Miss 4th of July, River’s Edge, Testament, Table for Five.
• 1969 – Jimmy Chaney was born. Rock musician.
• 1970 – Tom Dempsey kicks a National Football League-record 63 yard (57.6 meter) field goal to give the New Orleans Saints a 19-17 victory over the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium.
• 1970 – Diana King was born. Jamaican singer.
• 1970 – José Francisco Porras was born. Costa Rican football player.
• 1971 – The fourth album of British rock group Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV) is released, including one of the group’s most well known songs, “Stairway to heaven“.
• 1971 – Carlos Atanes was born. Spanish film director.
• 1971 – Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE) was born. American rapper.
• 1972 – Gretchen Mol was born. American actress: The Magnificent Ambersons, Donnie Brasco, Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground, Rounders, Finding Graceland, The Thirteenth Floor
• 1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
• 1973 – Vanesa Littlecrow was born. Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model.
• 1974 – In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
• 1974 – Masashi Kishimoto was born. Japanese manga author.
• 1974 – Matthew Rhys was born. Welsh actor.
• 1974 – Seishi Kishimoto was born. Japanese manga author.
• 1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter dies (b. 1914). American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter.
• 1975 – José Pinto was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1975 – Tara Reid was born. American actress (The Big Lebowski, American Pie series, Body Shots, Dr. T & the Women, Josie and the Pussycats).
• 1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
• 1976 – Brett Lee was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1976 – Colin Strause was born. American director.
• 1977 – 3,100 people mysteriously register to vote in Perry County, Ohio, unearthed by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee report investigating 2004 election inconsistencies in Ohio.
• 1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a well known Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina, making one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century.
• 1977 – Flo Jalin was born. Import car model.
• 1977 – Bucky Covington was born. American entertainer.
• 1977 – Jully Black was born. Canadian R&B singer.
• 1977 – Nick Punto was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 – Bucky Harris dies (b. 1896). Baseball player.
• 1978 – In Singapore, Funky Dance Movement begins with birth of Siu-Pihn Chao FDM.
• 1978 – Ali Karimi was born. Iranian footballer.
• 1978 – Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli was born. Brazilian football.
• 1978 – Maurice Evans was born. American basketball player.
• 1978 – Spyros Gogolos was born. Greek footballer.
• 1978 – Tim de Cler was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1978 – Norman Rockwell dies (b. 1894). American illustrator, best known for his covers of The Saturday Evening Post.
• 1979 – The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
• 1979 – Ravi kanth was born. Indian Scientist
• 1979 – Foundation of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action).
• 1979 – Aaron Hughes was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1979 – Dania Ramírez was born. Dominican actress.
• 1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle dies (b. 1900). Wife of Charles de Gaulle.
• 1980 – Ana Vidovic was born. Croatian classical guitarist.
• 1980 – Luis Fabiano was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1981 – Joe Cole was born. English football player.
• 1981 – Azura Skye was born. American actress.
• 1982 – Lynndie England was born. Former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib.
• 1982 – Mika Kallio was born. Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
• 1982 – Sam Sparro was born. Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor.
• 1983 – Blanka Vlašić was born. Croatian high jumper
• 1983 – Remko Pasveer was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1983 – Chris Rankin was born. New Zealand actor.
• 1983 – Kat Shoob was born. British television presenter.
• 1983 – Mordecai Kaplan dies (b. 1881). Rabbi who founded Reconstructionist Judaism.
• 1985 – Jack Osbourne was born. American TV star (“The Osbournes”).
• 1985 – Nicolas Frantz dies (b. 1899). Luxembourgish cyclist.
• 1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov dies (b. 1890). Former Soviet official whose name became attached to the incendiary bottle bomb known as a “Molotov Cocktail.
• 1987 – Enniskillen massacre: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain’s war dead, killing eleven people.
• 1987 – Olga Roriz coreógrafa portuguesa, ganha o 1º. Prémio Coreográfico do Concurso de Dança de Osaka, Japão no V Congresso Internacional de Ballet.
• 1987 – Remembrance Day Bombing: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honouring Britain’s war dead, killing eleven people.
• 1987 – Samantha Droke was born. American actress.
• 1988 – Rafael Fernandez Colon elected President of Puerto Rico.
• 1988 – U.S. presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
• 1989 – Virginian Douglas Wilder became the first African American to win a U.S. gubernatorial election, and, after he left office when his term expired in 1994, he was elected mayor of Richmond in 2004.
• 1989 – Hong Kong‘s MTR Lam Tin Station came into service.
• 1991 – Marion Barry is reelected mayor of Washington, D.C..
• 1992 – 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin
• 1993 – Fernando Guimarães (b. 1928) é contemplado com o Grande Prémio de Poesia APE (Associação Portuguesa de Escritores), pela sua obra O Anel Débil.
• 1993 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff dies (b. 1906). Russian mathematician.
• 1994 – For the first time in 40 years the United States Republican Party takes control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.
• 1994 – Michael O’Donoghue dies (b. 1940). American writer.
• 1996 – Edward Albert Radice dies (b. 2 Jan 1097). Economist.
• 1996 – Peter Fowler dies. Physicist.
• 1997 – US president Bill Clinton speaks at a dinner sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, the USA‘s largest gay rights organisation.
• 1998 – Jean Marais dies (b. 1913). French actor.
• 1999 – Leon Štukelj dies (b. 1898). Slovene gymnast.
• 1999 – Lester Bowie dies (b. 1941). American jazz trumpet player.
• 2000 – Marissa Poer was born. American actress.
• 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.
• 2002 – Jon Elia dies (b. 1931). Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher.
• 2003 – Bob Grant dies (b. 1932). English actor.
• 2003 – C. Z. Guest dies (b. 1920). American socialite.
• 2003 – Guy Speranza dies (b. 1956). American singer, original Riot frontman.
• 2003 – Lady Louise Windsor was born. British royalty.
• 2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
• 2004 – Peter Mathers dies (b. 1931). English-born Australian novelist.
• 2005 – French President Jacques Chirac declared a 12-day state of emergency to halt France’s worst civil unrest in nearly four decades.
• 2005 – Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Corzine is elected governor of New Jersey.
• 2005 – Adel al Zubeidi, the second lawyer of Saddam Hussein trial, is assassinated by gunmen in Baghdad.
• 2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis dies (b. 1928). Greek actor.
• 2005 – David Westheimer dies (b. 1917). American novelist.
• 2006 – Kathiraveli November 2006 massacre.
• 2006 – Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident.
• 2006 – Basil Poledouris dies (b. 1945). American film score composer.
• 2006 – Hannspeter Winter dies. Austrian plasma physicist.
• 2007 – Chad Varah dies (b. 1911). English founder of charity The Samaritans.
• 2007 – Dulce Saguisag dies (b. 1943). Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary.
• Saint Demetrius Day (Mitrovdan) in Yugoslavia Eastern Orthodox.
• Feast of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity.
• Saint Michael’s Day in Greece and Cyprus and to those of Greek Orthodox faith worldwide.

On this day in History – Nov. 8

• 0035 – Nerva was born (d. 0098). Roman Emperor.
• 0618 – Deusdedit/Adeodatus I dies. Italian Pope (615-18).
• 0911 – Louis the Child dies (b. 0893). Last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks.
• 0955 – Pope Agapetus II dies
• 1171 – Baldwin IV dies (b. 1108). Count of Hainaut.
• 1195 – Conrad of Hohenstaufen dies.
• 1226 – King Louis VIII of France dies (b. 1187)
• 1246 – Berenguela of Castile dies (b. 1180). Wife of Alfonso IX of Castile
• 1308 – Duns Scotus dies. Scottish philosopher
• 1342 – Julian of Norwich was born (d. 1416). English saint.
• 1431 – Vlad III the Impaler was born (d. 1476). Wallachian prince.
• 1491 – Teofilo Folengo was born (d. 1544). Italian poet.
• 1497 – Vasco da Gama batiza com o nome de Santa Helena uma baía que descobre a caminho das Índias
• 1517 – Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros dies (b. 1436). Spanish statesman.
• 1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
• 1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 persons.
• 1527 – Jerome Emser dies (b. 1477). German theologian.
• 1538 – Nascimento de D. Maria – filha de D. Duarte (duque de Guimarães) e D. Isabel
• 1576 – Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
• 1599 – Francisco Guerrero dies (b. 1528). Spanish composer.
• 1600 – Natsuka Masaie dies (b. 1562). Japanese warlord.
• 1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
• 1605 – Robert Catesby dies (b. 1573). English conspirator.
• 1620 – The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years’ War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
• 1622 – King Charles X of Sweden was born (d. 1660).
• 1656 – Edmond Halley was born (d. 14 Jan 1742). British astronomer [first to observe the return of the comet of 1682 (known to us as Halley’s Comet)] and mathematician.
• 1658 – Witte Corneliszoon de With dies (b. 1599). Dutch naval officer.
• 1674 – John Milton dies (b. 1608). English poet whose Paradise Lost is regarded as the greatest epic poem in the English language and who exerted a major influence on the history of English literature, culture, and libertarian thought.
• 1694 – Leonhard Trautsch was born (d. 1762). German composer.
• 1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer was born (d. 1772). German judge and philosopher.
• 1710 – Sarah Fielding was born (d. 1768). English writer.
• 1715 – Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern was born (d. 1797). Wife of Frederick II of Prussia.
• 1719 – Michel Rolle dies (b. 1652). French mathematician.
• 1723 – John Byron was born (d. 1786). British naval officer.
• 1765 – Martin Navarrete was born (d. 8 Oct 1844). Spanish navigator and writer.
• 1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1840).
• 1777 – Désirée Clary was born (d. 1860). Queen of Sweden.
• 1793 – In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
• 1817 – Andrea Apianni dies (b. 1754). Italian painter.
• 1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies dies (b. 1777).
• 1836 – Milton Bradley was born (d. 1911). American lithographer and game manufacturer.
• 1837 – One of the first institutions of higher education for women in the United States, Mount Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) opened in Massachusetts founded by Mary Lyon.
• 1847 – Bram Stoker was born (d. 1912). Irish novelist.
• 1847 – Jean Casimir-Périer was born (d. 1907). French politician.
• 1848 – Gottlob Frege was born (d. 1925). German mathematician and logician.
• 1854 – Johannes Rydberg was born (d. 1919). Swedish physicist.
• 1854 – Teófilo Dias was born in Caxias (d. 1889). Brazilian journalist and poet.
• 1860 – António Augusto Soares dos Passos dies (b. 1826). Portuguese ultra-romantic poet.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The “Trent Affair” – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mailship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
• 1864 – U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
• 1865 – Pedro Diez Canseco is reelected President of Peru.
• 1866 – Herbert Austin was born (d. 1941). English automobile pioneer.
• 1868 – Felix Hausdorff was born (d. 1942). German mathematician.
• 1869 – Zinaida Gippius was born (d. 1945). Russian woman-poet in exile in France.
• 1883 – Arnold Bax was born (d. 1953). English composer.
• 1884 – Hermann Rorschach was born (d. 1922). Swiss psychiatrist.
• 1885 – Emil Fahrenkamp was born (d. 1966). German architect.
• 1885 – Hans Cloos was born (d. 1951). German geologist.
• 1885 – Tomoyuki Yamashita was born (d. 1946). Japanese general.
• 1887 – Doc Holliday dies (b. 1851). American gambler and gunfighter.
• 1888 – David Monrad Johansen was born (d. 1974). Norwegian composer.
• 1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
• 1890 – César Franck dies (b. 1822). Belgian composer and organist.
• 1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
• 1892 – U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
• 1893 – Clarence Williams was born (d. 1965). American jazz pianist and composer.
• 1893 – Prajadhipok was born (d. 1941). Rama VII, king of Thailand.
• 1893 – Nascimento de Antonio Ildefonse dos Santos Silva (bispo angolano nascido em Portugal)
• 1895 – While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
• 1895 – Photios Kontoglou was born (d. 1965). Greek writer, painter and iconographer.
• 1896 – Bucky Harris was born (d. 1977). American baseball player.
• 1897 – Dorothy Day was born (d. 1980). American social activist.
• 1898 – Marie Prevost was born (d. 1937). Canadian actress.
• 1899 – The Bronx Zoo opens.
• 1900 – Charlie Paddock was born (d. 1943). American athlete.
• 1900 – Margaret Mitchell was born (d. 16 Aug 1949). American, Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Gone with the Wind [1937];
• 1900 – Charlie Paddock was born (d. 1943). American athlete.
• 1901 – Alfredo Ferraz was born. Portuguese World Champion in billiard (1939).
• 1901 – Bloody clashes in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into the demotic Greek.
• 1904 – Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, who had succeeded the assassinated William McKinley, was elected to a term in his own right this day. He defeated Democrat Alton B. Parker, 7,628,461 votes to 5,084,223 and 336 Electoral College votes to 140.
• 1904 – Cedric Belfrage was born (d. 1990). English-born writer.
• 1905 – Marco Aurelio Robles Méndez was born. President of Panamá (1964-1968)
• 1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov dies (b. 1870). Russian painter.
• 1908 – Martha Gellhorn was born (d. 1998). American writer and journalist.
• 1908 – Victorien Sardou dies (b. 5 Sep 1831). French dramatist.
• 1913 – June Havoc was born. American actress.
• 1914 – Norman Lloyd was born in Jersey City. American actor: St. Elsewhere, Journey of Honor, Jaws of Satan, Saboteur, The Southerner .
• 1914 – José Pedro Machado was born in Faro (d. 2005). Portuguese philologist and publisher.
• 1916 – June Havoc was born in Vancover. Canadian actress: Brewster’s Millions, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Sing Your Worries Away, Willy
• 1916 – Peter Weiss was born in Germany. German born Swedish author, dramatist and novelist.
• 1917 – People’s Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josef Stalin.
• 1917 – Colin Blythe dies (b. 1879). English cricketer.
• 1918 – Hermann Zapf was born. German designer.
• 1919 – P.L. Deshpande was born. Indian author.
• 1920 – Esther Rolle was born (d. 17 Nov 1998). American Academy Award-winning actress: Summer of My German Soldier; Good Times, Maude, Scarlett, Driving Miss Daisy, A Raisin in the Sun, The Mighty Quinn.
• 1920 – Eugênio de Araújo Sales was born. Brazilian cardinal.
• 1921 – Gene Saks was born in New York. Actor: A Fine Romance, Prisoner of Second Avenue, A Thousand Clowns; Director: Barefoot in the Park, Mame, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower
• 1921 – Walter Mirisch was born in New York City. Academy Award-winning producer: The Apartment [1960]. President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1973 to 1977.
• 1921 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav dies (b. 1849). Slovak poet.
• 1922 – Christiaan Barnard was born. South African heart surgeon who performed first known heart transplant [1967];
• 1922 – Ademir Marques de Menezes was born (d. 1996). Brazilian football player.
• 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
• 1923 – Jack Kilby was born (d. 2005). American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate.
• 1924 – Joe Flynn was born (d. 19 Jul 1974). Actor: The Tim Conway Show, McHale’s Navy, The Joey Bishop Show, The George Gobel Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Superdad, Million Dollar Duck, The Barefoot Executive, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes;
• 1926 – APOEL FC is founded in Nicosia, Cyprus.
• 1927 – Ken Dodd was born. English comedian.
• 1927 – Nguyen Khanh was born. Prime Minister of South Vietnam.
• 1927 – Patti Page was born in Claremore, Oklahoma. American singer: Tennessee Waltz, Old Cape Cod, I Went to Your Wedding, Doggie in the Window, Allegheny Moon, Steam Heat, Cross over the Bridge; Actress: Elmer Gantry.
• 1927 – Chris Connor was born. Jazz singer.
• 1929 – António Castanheira Neves was born. Portuguese legal philosopher.
• 1929 – Bobby Bowden was born. American football coach.
• 1931 – Morley Safer was born. Canadian journalist.
• 1931 – Darla Hood was born (d. 1979). American actress.
• 1932 – U.S. presidential election, 1932: During the Great Depression Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt easily defeated Herbert Hoover to win the presidency of the United States.
• 1933 – Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
• 1933 – Peter Arundell was born. British racing driver.
• 1934 – Carlos Chagas dies (b. 1879). Brazilian physician.
• 1935 – A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress for Industrial Organization (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism.
• 1935 – Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1935 – Alain Delon was born. French actor ( Nouvelle Vague, The Concorde: Airport ’79, Gypsy, Red Sun, Is Paris Burning?, Honor Among Thieves, Rocco and His Brothers, Sois Belle et Tais-Toi, Return of Zorro )
• 1935 – Alfonso López Trujillo was born. Colombian Cardinal Bishop.
• 1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“the eternal Jew“) opens in Munich.
• 1937 – The Chinese Youth Journalist Association was created in Shanghai. The day has become Chinese Journalist Day.
• 1938 – A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
• 1938 – Driss Basri was born (d. 2007). Moroccan Interior Minister.
• 1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
• 1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
• 1941 – The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
• 1941 – Rodney Slater was born. Musician: saxophone, trumpet: group: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: I’m the Urban Spaceman, Look at Me I’m Wonderful, Bad Blood, Straight from My Heart.
• 1942 – Holocaust: In Ternopil, western Ukraine, German SS deport about 2,400 Jews from Ternopil ghetto to the Belzec death camp, so called “Second Aktion”. When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city.
• 1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
• 1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyst XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested vichyst generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole French North Africa.
• 1942 – Angel Cordero Jr. was born. Puerto Rican jockey. National Horse Racing Hall of Famer: Jockey of the Year [1982, 1983]; winner of Breeder’s Cup [1985 Distaff, 1988 Juvenile Fillies, 1988 & 1989 Sprint), Kentucky Derby [1974, 1985], Preakness [1976, 1980, 1984], Belmont [1976].
• 1943 – Martin Peters was born. English football player.
• 1944 – Bonnie Bramlett was born. Songwriter, singer: group: Delaney and Bonnie and Friends: Never Ending Song of Love, Only You Know and I Know
• 1944 – Ed Kranepool was born. Baseball: NY Mets [only player to have played in each of Mets’ first 17 seasons; holds Mets’ record for most games played: 1853].
• 1945 – Don Murray was born. American drummer (The Turtles).
• 1945 – August von Mackensen dies (b. 1849). German Field Marshal.
• 1946 – Guus Hiddink was born. Dutch football (soccer) coach.
• 1946 – Roy Wood was born. English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra).
• 1947 – Minnie Riperton was born (d. 12 Jul 1979). American singer: Lovin’ You; LP: Come to My Garden, Adventure in Paradise; group: Wonderlove;
• 1949 – Alan Berger was born. Rocker Musician: bass: group: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes: I Don’t Wanna Go Home, The Fever, This Time It’s for Real, Love on the Wrong Side of Town, When You Dance, Hearts of Stone.
• 1949 – Bonnie Raitt was born. Grammy Award-winning singer [1990]: Runaway, The Boy Can’t Help It, Something to Talk About, Sweet Forgiveness; actress: Urban Cowboy; musician: guitar;
• 1949 – Wayne LaPierre was born. Executive Vice Presidenf of the National Rifle Association.
• 1949 – Cyriel Verschaeve dies (b. 1874). Belgian clergyman.
• 1950 – Charles ‘Boobie’ Clark was born (d. 25 Oct 1988). Football player: Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Oilers;
• 1950 – Mary Hart was born. American television personality: Entertainment Tonight.
• 1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dog fight in history.
• 1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the “Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
• 1951 – Alfredo Astiz was born. Argentine general.
• 1952 – Jan Raas was born. Dutch cyclist.
• 1952 – Christie Hefner was born. CEO of Playboy Enterprises; daughter of Hugh Hefner.
• 1952 – Jerry Remy was born. American baseball player, color commentator.
• 1952 – John Denny was born. Baseball player.
• 1952 – Maria Isabel Rodrigues Branco was born. Portuguese stylist.
• 1953 – Alfre Woodard was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Hill Street Blues: Alice in Wonderland [1983-1984]; guest performance: L.A. Law [1986-1987]; St. Elsewhere, Tucker’s Witch, Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Bopha, Heart and Souls
• 1953 – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin dies (b. 1870). Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1953 – John van Melle dies (b. 1887). South African author.
• 1954 – David Bret was born. Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster.
• 1954 – Jeanette McGruder was born. American musician (P Funk)
• 1954 – Kazuo Ishiguro was born. British author.
• 1954 – Michael D. Brown was born. U.S. Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response.
• 1954 – Rickie Lee Jones was born. American singer and composer Chuck E.’s in Love, On Saturday Afternoons in 1963.
• 1956 – Comet Arend-Roland was discovered.
• 1956 – Richard Curtis was born. British screenwriter.
• 1956 – Steven Miller was born. American record producer.
• 1956 – Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
  1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. Two tests earlier that year were publicly hailed as successful, but in fact largely failed.
• 1957 – Porl Thompson was born. British musician (The Cure).
• 1957 – Alan Curbishley was born. English football manager.
• 1958 – Don Byron was born. American clarinetist.
• 1959 – Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba’s Nes Destour party wins every chair.
• 1959 – Frank Sherman Land dies (b. 1890). Founder of DeMolay International.
• 1960 – U.S. presidential election, 1960: John F. Kennedy is elected (narrowly) over Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.
• 1960 – Oleg Menshikov was born. Russian actor.
• 1960 – Michael Nyqvist was born. Swedish actor.
• 1961 – Leif Garrett was born. American singer and actor.
• 1964 – Habib Burguiba is reelected President of Tunisia.
• 1964 – Judy Garland and her daughter, Liza Minnelli, appeared together at the London Palladium. The program was shown on U.S. TV; and the LP, Live at the London Palladium became a classic on Capitol Records.
• 1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
• 1965 – The Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
• 1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War.
• 1965 – The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC in the United States.
• 1965 – Craig Chester was born. American actor and screenwriter.
• 1965 – Jeff Blauser was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen dies (b. 1913). American newspaper columnist.
• 1965 – Edgard Varése dies. French composer.
• 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
• 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
• 1966 – Gordon Ramsay was born. British chef.
• 1967 – Courtney Thorne-Smith was born. American actress.
• 1967 – Henry Rodriguez was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1968 – Parker Posey was born. American actress.
• 1968 – Sergio Porrini was born. Italian footballer.
• 1968 – Zara Whites was born. Dutch porn actress.
• 1968 – Wendell Corey dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 1969 – Roxana Zal was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Something about Amelia [1984]; Shattered Spirits, Under the Boardwalk, Goodbye, Miss 4th of July, River’s Edge, Testament, Table for Five.
• 1969 – Jimmy Chaney was born. Rock musician.
• 1970 – Tom Dempsey kicks a National Football League-record 63 yard (57.6 meter) field goal to give the New Orleans Saints a 19-17 victory over the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium.
• 1970 – Diana King was born. Jamaican singer.
• 1970 – José Francisco Porras was born. Costa Rican football player.
• 1971 – The fourth album of British rock group Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV) is released, including one of the group’s most well known songs, “Stairway to heaven“.
• 1971 – Carlos Atanes was born. Spanish film director.
• 1971 – Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE) was born. American rapper.
• 1972 – Gretchen Mol was born. American actress: The Magnificent Ambersons, Donnie Brasco, Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground, Rounders, Finding Graceland, The Thirteenth Floor
• 1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
• 1973 – Vanesa Littlecrow was born. Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model.
• 1974 – In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
• 1974 – Masashi Kishimoto was born. Japanese manga author.
• 1974 – Matthew Rhys was born. Welsh actor.
• 1974 – Seishi Kishimoto was born. Japanese manga author.
• 1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter dies (b. 1914). American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter.
• 1975 – José Pinto was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1975 – Tara Reid was born. American actress (The Big Lebowski, American Pie series, Body Shots, Dr. T & the Women, Josie and the Pussycats).
• 1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
• 1976 – Brett Lee was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1976 – Colin Strause was born. American director.
• 1977 – 3,100 people mysteriously register to vote in Perry County, Ohio, unearthed by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee report investigating 2004 election inconsistencies in Ohio.
• 1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a well known Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina, making one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century.
• 1977 – Flo Jalin was born. Import car model.
• 1977 – Bucky Covington was born. American entertainer.
• 1977 – Jully Black was born. Canadian R&B singer.
• 1977 – Nick Punto was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 – Bucky Harris dies (b. 1896). Baseball player.
• 1978 – In Singapore, Funky Dance Movement begins with birth of Siu-Pihn Chao FDM.
• 1978 – Ali Karimi was born. Iranian footballer.
• 1978 – Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli was born. Brazilian football.
• 1978 – Maurice Evans was born. American basketball player.
• 1978 – Spyros Gogolos was born. Greek footballer.
• 1978 – Tim de Cler was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1978 – Norman Rockwell dies (b. 1894). American illustrator, best known for his covers of The Saturday Evening Post.
• 1979 – The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
• 1979 – Ravi kanth was born. Indian Scientist
• 1979 – Foundation of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action).
• 1979 – Aaron Hughes was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1979 – Dania Ramírez was born. Dominican actress.
• 1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle dies (b. 1900). Wife of Charles de Gaulle.
• 1980 – Ana Vidovic was born. Croatian classical guitarist.
• 1980 – Luis Fabiano was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1981 – Joe Cole was born. English football player.
• 1981 – Azura Skye was born. American actress.
• 1982 – Lynndie England was born. Former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib.
• 1982 – Mika Kallio was born. Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
• 1982 – Sam Sparro was born. Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor.
• 1983 – Blanka Vlašić was born. Croatian high jumper
• 1983 – Remko Pasveer was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1983 – Chris Rankin was born. New Zealand actor.
• 1983 – Kat Shoob was born. British television presenter.
• 1983 – Mordecai Kaplan dies (b. 1881). Rabbi who founded Reconstructionist Judaism.
• 1985 – Jack Osbourne was born. American TV star (“The Osbournes”).
• 1985 – Nicolas Frantz dies (b. 1899). Luxembourgish cyclist.
• 1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov dies (b. 1890). Former Soviet official whose name became attached to the incendiary bottle bomb known as a “Molotov Cocktail.
• 1987 – Enniskillen massacre: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain’s war dead, killing eleven people.
• 1987 – Olga Roriz coreógrafa portuguesa, ganha o 1º. Prémio Coreográfico do Concurso de Dança de Osaka, Japão no V Congresso Internacional de Ballet.
• 1987 – Remembrance Day Bombing: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honouring Britain’s war dead, killing eleven people.
• 1987 – Samantha Droke was born. American actress.
• 1988 – Rafael Fernandez Colon elected President of Puerto Rico.
• 1988 – U.S. presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
• 1989 – Virginian Douglas Wilder became the first African American to win a U.S. gubernatorial election, and, after he left office when his term expired in 1994, he was elected mayor of Richmond in 2004.
• 1989 – Hong Kong‘s MTR Lam Tin Station came into service.
• 1991 – Marion Barry is reelected mayor of Washington, D.C..
• 1992 – 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin
• 1993 – Fernando Guimarães (b. 1928) é contemplado com o Grande Prémio de Poesia APE (Associação Portuguesa de Escritores), pela sua obra O Anel Débil.
• 1993 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff dies (b. 1906). Russian mathematician.
• 1994 – For the first time in 40 years the United States Republican Party takes control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.
• 1994 – Michael O’Donoghue dies (b. 1940). American writer.
• 1996 – Edward Albert Radice dies (b. 2 Jan 1097). Economist.
• 1996 – Peter Fowler dies. Physicist.
• 1997 – US president Bill Clinton speaks at a dinner sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, the USA‘s largest gay rights organisation.
• 1998 – Jean Marais dies (b. 1913). French actor.
• 1999 – Leon Štukelj dies (b. 1898). Slovene gymnast.
• 1999 – Lester Bowie dies (b. 1941). American jazz trumpet player.
• 2000 – Marissa Poer was born. American actress.
• 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.
• 2002 – Jon Elia dies (b. 1931). Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher.
• 2003 – Bob Grant dies (b. 1932). English actor.
• 2003 – C. Z. Guest dies (b. 1920). American socialite.
• 2003 – Guy Speranza dies (b. 1956). American singer, original Riot frontman.
• 2003 – Lady Louise Windsor was born. British royalty.
• 2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
• 2004 – Peter Mathers dies (b. 1931). English-born Australian novelist.
• 2005 – French President Jacques Chirac declared a 12-day state of emergency to halt France’s worst civil unrest in nearly four decades.
• 2005 – Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Corzine is elected governor of New Jersey.
• 2005 – Adel al Zubeidi, the second lawyer of Saddam Hussein trial, is assassinated by gunmen in Baghdad.
• 2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis dies (b. 1928). Greek actor.
• 2005 – David Westheimer dies (b. 1917). American novelist.
• 2006 – Kathiraveli November 2006 massacre.
• 2006 – Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident.
• 2006 – Basil Poledouris dies (b. 1945). American film score composer.
• 2006 – Hannspeter Winter dies. Austrian plasma physicist.
• 2007 – Chad Varah dies (b. 1911). English founder of charity The Samaritans.
• 2007 – Dulce Saguisag dies (b. 1943). Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary.
• Saint Demetrius Day (Mitrovdan) in Yugoslavia Eastern Orthodox.
• Feast of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity.
• Saint Michael’s Day in Greece and Cyprus and to those of Greek Orthodox faith worldwide.