November 8<\/p>\n
1519 \u2013 Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s enters Tenochtitl\u00e1n and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.<\/p>\n
1605 \u2013 Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters planning on blowing up Parliament in London, is killed in a gunfight with his pursuers\u00a0 at\u00a0Holbeche House in Staffordshire<\/p>\n
1837 \u2013 Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts -later Mount Holyoke College – the first of a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 During the American Civil War, The USS San Jacinto<\/em> stops the British mail ship RMS Trent<\/em> and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US, with President Lincoln finally releasing the envoys.<\/p>\n 1887 \u2013 John ‘Doc’ Holliday dies in bed, with his boots off, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, age 36.<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.<\/p>\n 1895 \u2013 While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen discovers the X-ray.<\/p>\n 1923 \u2013 In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government later called the ‘Beer Hall Putsch<\/em>‘ due to the Nazi beginnings at the B\u00fcrgerliches brewery’s B\u00fcrgerbr\u00e4ukeller in Munich.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Herbert Hoover.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed during the winter of 1933-34<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 Over Korea, U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, piloting an F-80 Shooting Star<\/em>, shoots down 2 North Korean MiG-15s, the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 Pan Am Flight 7, a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu with the loss of all 44 passengers and crew aboard. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 American Airlines Flight 383, a Boeing 727, crashes in Constance, Kentucky on final approach to the Cincinnati\/Northern Kentucky International Airport, killing 54 of the 57 passengers and 4 of the 5 crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 President Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the American Football League.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay $2.9 million.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon – the father of Alexander the Great – at Vergina.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st President of the United States.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 The midterm election demoncrap losses result in massive Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. The passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act<\/em> which included an ‘assault weapon’ ban is seen as playing a significant part in this.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves resolution 1441 on Iraq, warning Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 Asteroid 2005 YU55<\/em> passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth – about 201,700 miles – the closest known approach by an asteroid of its size since 2010 XC15<\/em> in 1976.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 Alex Trebek, noted longtime host of Jeopardy!,\u00a0<\/em>dies, age 80, of pancreatic cancer, at his home in Los Angeles<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 8 1519 \u2013 Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s enters Tenochtitl\u00e1n and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. 1605 \u2013 Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters planning on blowing up Parliament in London, is killed in a gunfight with his pursuers\u00a0 at\u00a0Holbeche House in Staffordshire 1837 \u2013 Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61562"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97542,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61562\/revisions\/97542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}