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Antaletriangle
11-07-2008, 11:56 PM
November 7th in History:

November 7th in History
1872: The ship Marie Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted
1944: Franklin D.Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President
1972: Richard Nixon re-elected as the US president

November 7th birthdays
1867: Marie Curie, First woman to win the Nobel prize for physics
1918: Billy Graham, American evangelist

Antaletriangle
11-08-2008, 12:02 AM
November 8th:

November 8th in History
1988: George Bush elected as US President

1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts-1st US college founded for women
1861 US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1864 Abraham Lincoln elected to his 2nd term as President
1889 Montana admitted as 41st state
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) elected President
1904 President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected President for 1st time
1950 1st jet-plane battle of Korean War
1960 JFK (MA-D-Sen) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for President
1966 Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to "Nightline")
1984 Anna Fisher becomes the 1st "mom" to go into orbit
1988 George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for Presidency
1990 100,000 additional US troops are sent to the Persian gulf
1990 Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1994 Republicans regain control of US Congress

1519: Spanish conquistadors capture the Aztec Emperor Montezuma.
1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath: eighty Swedish bishops are murdered on the command of King Christian II of Denmark-Norway and Sweden just four days after he gave them an amnesty. Further massacres follow throughout Sweden.
1620: The Battle of the White Mountain: Protestant Czech forces are defeated by Catholic Austrian ones, ending Bohemia's independence and partly triggering the Thirty Years War.
1888: Tiddlywinks patented by Joseph Fincher.
1895: X-Rays are discovered by German Wilhelm Roentgen.
1923: The Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler's first attempt to seize power.
Births



November 8th birthdays
1656: Edmond Halley, English astronomer
1847: Bram Stoker, Irish author
1900: Margaret Mitchell, American author
1935: Alain Delon, French actor