What Happened On November 8

What Happened On Nov 8 Events

1620 Nov 8 Battle of White Mountain
The Battle of White Mountain, 8 November 1620 (Bílá hora is the name of White Mountain in Czech) was an early battle in the Thirty Years' War in which an army of 15,000 Bohemians and merc...
1861 Nov 8 The Crew Of The U.S.S. San Jacinto Intercepts Trent
On November 8, 1861, U.S. Navy Captain Charles Wilkes commanded the crew of the U.S.S. San Jacinto to intercept the British mail steamer Trent and arrest Confederate commissioners James M...
1864 Nov 8 1864 Presidential Election
After Union victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga in 1863, overall victory seemed at hand, and Lincoln promoted Ulysses S. Grant General-in-Chief on March 12, 1864. When the...
1889 Nov 8 Montana is the 41st State Admitted to the Union
Before Montana was a state, it was a territory. During those early years, the President of the United States appointed territorial governors, justices, and other officials to govern Mont...
1898 Nov 8 Theodore Roosevelt Elected Governor of New York
On leaving the Army, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1898 as a Republican. He made such a concerted effort to root out corruption and "machine politics" that Republican boss...
1906 Nov 8 Fred A. Dobson Begins Filming The Skyscrapers Of New York
On November 8, 1906, cameraman Fred A. Dobson began filming The Skyscrapers of New York atop an uncompleted skyscraper at Broadway and 12th Street. The American Mutoscope and Biograph Com...
1923 Nov 8 The Beer Hall Putsch
A series of financial events unfolded in the years 1921 though 1923 that would propel the Nazis to new heights of daring and would even prompt Hitler into attempting to take over Germany....
1933 Nov 8 Mohammad Nadir Shah Assassinated, Mohammad Zahir Shah Ascends to the Throne
On November 8, 1933 while distributing awards to high school graduates at Bala-e-sar, the King was shot dead by a teenager named Abdul Khaliq Hazara. The assassination plot was hatched by...
1933 Nov 8
to 1973 Jul 17
 Reign of Mohammad Zahir Shah over the Kingdom of Afghanistan
Zahir Khan was proclaimed King (Shah) on 8 November 1933, after the assassination of his father Mohammed Nadir Shah. Following his ascension to the throne he was given the regnal title "c...
1935 Nov 8 "Mutiny On The Bounty" Is Released
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the "Bounty"...
1944 Nov 8 Allied Forces Capture Middelburg
On 6 November, the island's capital Middelburg fell after a calculated gamble on the Allies' part when the German commander was invited to consider surrendering only to an armored force. ...
1949 Nov 8 "All The King's Men" Is Released
All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.
1957 Nov 8 Pan Am's Clipper Romance Of The Skies Crashes
Pan Am Flight 7, registration N90944, Clipper Romance Of The Skies, was an around-the-world-flight originating in San Francisco that flew westbound with several stops before arriving in P...
1960 Nov 8 John F. Kennedy Elected 35th U.S. President
On Tuesday, November 8, Kennedy defeated Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century. In the national popular vote Kennedy led Nixon by just two-tenths of ...
1961 Nov 8 Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 Crashes
Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 was a Lockheed Constellation L-049 four-engine propliner, registration N2737A, chartered by the United States Army to transport new recruits to Columbia, So...
1965 Nov 8 Ted Kennedy Wins Passage of a Bill Establishing the National Teacher Corps as Part of the Higher Education Act
The Higher Education Act of 1965 (Pub. L. No. 89-329) (the "HSA") was legislation signed into United States law on November 8, 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society dom...
1966 Nov 8 George H.W. Bush Elected to U.S. House of Representatives
Bush served as Chairman of the Republican Party for Harris County, Texas in 1964, but wanted to be more involved in policy making, so he set his stakes high: he aimed for a US Senate seat...
1966 Nov 8 Ronald Reagan is Elected Governor of California
California Republicans were impressed with Reagan's political views and charisma after his "Time for Choosing" speech, and nominated him for Governor of California in 1966. In Reagan's ca...
1971 Nov 8 Led Zeppelin's fourth album is released
The untitled fourth album by English rock band Led Zeppelin was released on 8 November 1971. It has no official title printed anywhere on the album, and is generally referred to as Led Ze...
1973 Nov 8 Robin Hood is released
Robin Hood is an animated feature produced by the Walt Disney Studios, first released in the United States on November 8, 1973. The 21st animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Class...
1980 Nov 8 Motörhead release Ace of Spades
Ace of Spades is the fourth album by the British band Motörhead. Released on 8 November 1980, it peaked at #4 on the UK album charts and reached Gold status by March 1981. It was preceded...
1984 Nov 8 Stephen King publishes The Talisman
The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub. The plot is not a reworking of the earlier Walter Scott book also titled The Talisman, although there is one oblique...
1986 Nov 8 W.A.S.P. release Inside the Electric Circus
Inside The Electric Circus is the third studio album by W.A.S.P., released in 1986. In various interviews Blackie Lawless rated this as one of the weakest releases of his career. This is ...
1989 Nov 8 "Henry V" Is Released
Henry V is a 1989 film directed by Kenneth Branagh, and based upon the Shakespeare play about the famous English King. Branagh stars in the title role with Derek Jacobi as the Chorus (a n...
1994 Nov 8 George W. Bush Elected Governor of Texas
After working on his father's successful 1988 Presidential campaign, President Bush assembled the group of partners who purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989. On November...
1994 Nov 8 The Eagles release Hell Freezes Over
Hell Freezes Over is a live album by the Eagles, released in 1994. The album contains four new studio tracks and eleven tracks recorded live for an MTV special. It went to #1 on the Billb...
1998 Nov 8 Season 8 Of The X-Files Begins
The sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files commenced airing on the Fox Broadcasting Network in the United States on November 8, 1998, concluding on the same cha...
2000 Nov 8 South Park Episode 411 - "4th Grade"
The kids have to face the 4th grade, and they're not too happy about it. Cartman cooks up a scheme to go back in time to return to the 3rd grade where things were fun and easy. Two geeks ...
2003 Nov 8 "The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring" Is Released
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring is a 2003 real-time strategy game (RTS) developed by Liquid Entertainment, the makers of the previous Battle Realms and its expansion, Winter of the...
2004 Nov 8 EverQuest II Launches
EverQuest II is set on the fictional world of Norrath five hundred years after the The Planes of Power storyline of the original EverQuest game. The gods withdrew from the world in retali...
2004 Nov 8
to 2004 Nov 16
 The Battle of Mosul
The Battle for Mosul was a battle fought during the Iraq War in 2004 for the capital of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq that occurred concurrently to fighting in Fallujah. Duri...
2004 Nov 8 U2 releases "Vertigo" single
"Vertigo" is the opening track and first single from U2's 2004 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The single was released for airplay on September 24, 2004; upon release the song rec...
2005 Nov 8 Gun (video game) released
Gun is a Revisionist Western-themed video game developed by Neversoft. It was published by Activision for the Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2. Gun was releas...
2005 Nov 8 Kanye West releases "Heard 'Em Say" single
"Heard 'Em Say" is a song by American hip hop artist Kanye West. It was released on November 8, 2005 as the third single for his second studio album, Late Registration. The song features ...
2005 Nov 8 Sepultura release Live in São Paulo
Live In São Paulo is the second live album by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura. All the tracks were recorded on April 3, 2005, at a concert in São Paulo, Brazil. A DVD of the same na...
2005 Nov 8 "The Lord Of The Rings: Tactics" Is Released
The Lord of the Rings: Tactics is a tactical role-playing game for the Sony PlayStation Portable. It features characters from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. However, it is a d...
2005 Nov 8 The Vandals release Shingo Japanese Remix Album
Shingo Japanese Remix Album is an album of songs by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals remixed and re-interpreted by Japanese DJ Shingo Asari, released in 2005 by Kung Fu ...
2006 Nov 8 America's Next Top Model Cycle 7 Episode 9
The next day, the contestants headed to the beach where they met pro athlete and model Gabrielle Reece where she taught the girls the art of action modeling while they bumped, set and spi...
2006 Nov 8 South Park Episode 1013 - "Go God Go XII"
In the previous episode, Eric Cartman froze himself in an attempt to make his three-week wait for a Nintendo Wii pass quickly. A freak accident landed him over 500 years in the future -- ...
2008 Nov 8 Boston Bruins defeat Buffalo Sabres, 3-1
In his first game in three weeks, Manny Fernandez showed a packed house at TD Banknorth Garden last night that he can play a little goal, too. The Bruins turned back the Buffalo Sabres, 3...
2008 Nov 8 Taylor Swift Airs On CMT Crossroads
In 2008, Swift made her acting debut in Brad Paisley's music video "Online". In that same year Swift filmed a documentary for MTV entitled MTV's Once Upon a Prom and a documentary with De...
2009 Nov 8 New England Patriots defeat Miami Dolphins, 27-17
In the rare Patriots season that concluded before the playoffs, no team tormented them more than the Miami Dolphins. Last fall, the Dolphins embarrassed them at their home field with an o...
2009 Nov 8 Portland Trail Blazers defeat Minnesota Timberwolves, 116-93
PORTLAND, ORE. - Somebody in the Timberwolves' locker room before Sunday's 116-93 loss wondered why Portland is called Rip City, the longtime catch phrase the Trail Blazers are using this...
2009 Nov 8 San Diego Chargers defeat New York Giants, 21-20
Enough with the second-guessing. Enough with the search for a scapegoat. If you want to blame someone, blame Tom Coughlin. That's what the Giants' coach said Wednesday afternoon in an ...
2009 Nov 8 Senator Robert Byrd Becomes Longest Serving Member in Congress in History
In West Virginia, the late Sen. Robert Byrd is already memorialized in more than 1,000 miles of highways and in the projects and jobs, worth billions of dollars, that he delivered over ha...
2009 Nov 8 Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat Green Bay Packers, 38-28
Tampa, Fla. — In a matter of two weeks, the Green Bay Packers have been beaten by an old man and a child. Last week, 40-year-old Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre completed 17 ...
2010 Nov 8 Dallas Mavericks defeat Boston Celtics, 89-87
DALLAS — One play was a breakdown by a team built on defense. The other was simply a tough shot by a player paid $20 million a year to take tough shots. The first play, though, was the...
2011 Nov 8 Heavy D Dies
The self-proclaimed "overweight lover" of hip hop, who became one of rap's top hitmakers with his charming combination of humor and positivity, enthusiastically told his Twitter followers...
2011 Nov 8 IAEA Releases Report indicating Iran Continues to Pursue Nuclear Weapons
An IAEA report on nuclear verification in Iran was circulated on 8 November 2011 to the Agency's Board of Governors and the UN Security Council. The Agency's 35-member Board of Governo...
2011 Nov 8 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi Offers to Quit Power
For years, Mr. Berlusconi clung to power while fending off sex scandals and corruption trials. In the end, however, the fall of Europe's most indefatigable politician came at the hands of...