What Happened on 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... Read more

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... Read more

1864 Presidential Election

After Union victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga in 1863, overall victory seemed at hand, and Lincoln promoted Ulysses S. Grant... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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.... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more