1793: Originally constructed as a royal residence in the early 13th century, the Louvre opens as a museum in Paris. Learn more about the Louvre.

1837: Mount Holyoke Seminary opens in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It is the first college in America established specifically for women. Learn more about Mount Holyoke College.

1864: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is re-elected. Learn more about Abraham Lincoln.

1923: In what becomes known as the Beer Hall putsch (revolt), Adolf Hitler and general Erich Ludendorff march on a Munich beer hall in an attempt to start a revolution. Learn more about Adolf Hitler.

1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president of the United States. Learn more about Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1942: British and U.S. forces invade Nazi-occupied North Africa. Learn more about World War II.


Born:

Edmund Halley, British astronomer (1656)

Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (1848)

Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (1922)

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392 Theodosius of Rome passes legislation prohibiting all pagan worship in the empire.

1226 Louis IX succeeds Louis VIII as king of France.

1576 The 17 provinces of the Netherlands form a federation to maintain peace.

1620 The King of Bohemia is defeated at the Battle of Prague.

1685 Fredrick William of Brandenburg issues the Edict of Potsdam, offering Huguenots refuge.

1861 Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent.

1887 Doc Holliday, who fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 6 years earlier, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Holliday and the Dodge City War.

1889 Montana becomes the 41st state of the Union.

1900 Theodore Dresier's first novel Sister Carrie is published by Doubleday, but is recalled from stores shortly due to public sentiment.

1904 President Theodore Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. He had been vice president until the shooting death of President William McKinley.

1910 The Democrats prevail in congressional elections for the first time since 1894.

1938 Crystla Bird Fauset of Pennsylvania, becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to a state legislature.

1960 John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880.

1966 Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African American elected to the Senate in 85 years.

1983 Wilson B. Goode is elected as the first black mayor of the city of Philadelphia.

1988 George H. Bush is elected the 41st president of the United States.




Born on November 8

1847 Bram Stoker, author (Dracula).

1878 Marshall Walter Taylor, "Major Taylor," the world's fastest bicycle racer for a 12-year period.

1879 Leon Trosky, Russian Communist leader.

1884 Hermann Rorshach, Swiss psychiatrist, inventor of the inkblot test.

1900 Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling, Swiss botanist and molecular biology pioneer.

1900 Margaret Mitchell, American writer who found success in her first and only novel, Gone With the Wind.

1909 Katherine Hepburn, American actress who won four Oscars. Her movies included Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and The African Queen.

1916 Peter Ulrich Weiss, German novelist and dramatist (Marat/Sade, The Investigation).