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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

A Day as Today - Dorian's Secrets — *Events that Happened “A Day as Today”*

November 8 – A Day as Today

392: in the Roman Empire the emperor Theodosius the Great forbids all non-Christian cults.
1519: in present-day Mexico, the Spanish soldier Hernán Cortés arrives at the gates of the capital Tenochtitlán and Emperor Moctezuma comes out to greet him.
1520: in Sweden, the Danish army carries out an invasion and kills 100 people.
1539: the Spanish king Carlos I grants coat of arms and city title to the new town of Guadalajara (in Mexico).
1557: in Chile, the troops of the governor García Hurtado de Mendoza face for the first time against the Araucanians of the chief Turcupichun in the battle of Lagunillas.
1576: within the framework of the Eighty Years War, the Pacification of Ghent is signed: the States General of the Netherlands agree on a series of measures for pacification, within the framework of the uprising against Philip II, King of Spain and Lord of Flanders.
1602: in Oxford the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford opens to the public.
1620: near Prague – in the framework of the Thirty Years’ War – the Spanish and German Catholic imperialists defeat the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of the White Mountain.
1793: in Paris the Louvre Museum opens to the public.
1808: in Haiti, the Dominican patriot Juan Sánchez Ramírez defeats the French troops.
1820: in Guayaquil, current Ecuador, the Free Province of Guayaquil is established.
1837: In the United States, Mary Lyon founds the Mount Holyoke Feminist Seminary, which would become Mount Holyoke College.
1838: the Polish musician Federico Chopin and the French writer George Sand arrive on the island of Majorca (Mediterranean Sea), where they will live a romance.
1849: within the framework of the León Conference, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua sign an agreement by which they establish the National Representation of Central America.
1861: within the framework of the Civil War in the United States, the Trent case occurs: the warship USS San Jacinto attacks the British post ship Trent and arrests two Confederates, starting a diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.
1883: in Honduras, General Luis Bográn begins his presidential term.
1887: in the United States, the Judeo-German inventor Emile Berliner patents the gramophone.
1889: In the United States, Montana is admitted as the 41st state.
1895: in Munich (Germany), the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, while conducting experiments with electricity, discovers X-rays.
1901: bloody fighting is fought in Athens after the translation of the Christian Gospels into Demotic Greek.
1902: in Havana (Cuba) it is agreed to carry out the so-called Strike of the apprentices, which will be the first general strike of the recently proclaimed Republic of Cuba.
1917: in Saint Petersburg (Russia) the battleship Aurora of the Russian navy, revolts in front of the provisional Government, and aims its cannons towards the Winter Palace (residence of the imperial family) as a sign of support towards the Bolshevik forces, thus foreshadowing the fate of the Armed Forces in the October Revolution. In Moscow, the people’s commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
1918: in Venezuela, the Caroran of Basque origin, Rafael Perera Zubillaga, creates in the City of Carora the mixed market chain of pharmacies and convenience store, Farmatodo, then known by the name of Droguería Lara, as’ a company family caroreña ‘. Months later he would move to Barquisimeto for the first time, and years later he would move for the second time to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
1923: in the Bürgerbräukeller brewery, in the city of Munich (Germany), Adolf Hitler and his Nazis carry out the Brewery Putsch, a failed attempt at an organized coup against the democratic republic. Hitler falls prisoner.
1926: Apoel Football Club is founded in Nicosia (Cyprus).
1926: the island of Luzon (Philippines) is devastated by a typhoon that kills 175 people.
1932: In the Cayman Islands, a Category 5 hurricane generates a 10-meter storm surge that devastates Cayman Brac Island and kills 110 people.
1932: In the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president.
1933: in the United States ―in the framework of the New Deal―, President Roosevelt creates the Civil Works Administration, an organization that will give temporary jobs (only during this winter, until March 31, 1934) to four million unemployed .
1933: in Kabul, Afghanistan, during a graduation ceremony in a secondary school, a man armed with a Colt M1911 pistol. 45 assassinates King Mohammed Nadir Sha (50). He will be replaced by his son, Mohammed Zahir Sha (1914-2007).
1935: a popular uprising led by socialists and communists takes place in Brazil.
1936: in Spain, General Miaja takes over the military and political leadership of Madrid after the withdrawal of the government from the city during the Civil War.
1939: in Munich (Germany), Hitler – as part of the celebrations for the 16 years of his putsch (coup) in Munich – survives an attack perpetrated by Georg Elser at the Bürgerbräukeller brewery where the Nazi party years before.
1939: In Venlo (Netherlands), the Germans arrest two British Intelligence Service agents. (Venlo incident).
1941: The Party of Labor of Albania is founded.
1942: in the framework of World War II, United States and United Kingdom forces land in North Africa, in Operation Torch.
1942: in Algiers ―in the framework of World War II―, the French resistance carried out an attack, in which 400 French civilians neutralized the pro-Nazi Vichista French army. After 15 hours of fighting they arrest several Vichista generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch.
1950: in the framework of the Korean War, Lieutenant Russell J. Brown shoots down a North Korean MiG-15. It is the first jet combat in history.
1956: Israel decides to withdraw its troops from Mount Sinai.
1957: On the island of Kiritimati in the Pacific Ocean, the United Kingdom successfully explodes its first hydrogen bomb (Operation Grapple).
1958: in Cuba, henchmen of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship assassinate the revolutionaries Ángel Ameijeiras, Pedro Gutiérrez and Rogelio Perea.
1960: in the United States, John F. Kennedy is elected president.
1965: The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, which includes the Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar Group and the Des Roches Islands.
1965: in the United Kingdom the death penalty is abolished.
1965: in Vietnam – in the framework of the Vietnam War – the US 173rd Brigade begins Operation Hump, but they are ambushed and defeated by more than 1,200 Vietcong soldiers.
1966: In the United States – still oppressed by apartheid (to be abolished in 1967) – Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African-American elected to the United States Senate.
1966: Pope Paul VI authorizes a common Catholic-Protestant translation of the Bible.
1971: British band Led Zeppelin releases their fourth album, Led Zeppelin IV, also called ZOSO, which contains one of the most popular rock songs, “Stairway to Heaven.”
1972: the HBO channel begins its broadcasts in the United States.
1976: in Thessaloniki (Greece), a series of earthquakes causes panic. It will end up being evacuated.
1977: in Vergina (Greece), the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedonia.
1983: 126 people died at the Lubango airport (Angola) when a Boeing 737 plane of the Angolan airlines TAAG Angola crashed.
1988: in the United States, George H. W. Bush is elected president.
1987: in Enniskillen (Northern Ireland), the Provisional IRA explodes a bomb on a Protestant holiday killing 20 people.
1995: in Madrid (Spain), Congress approves the current Penal Code.
2001: in Huelva (Spain) the Nuevo Colombino, stadium of the Real Club Recreativo de Huelva, is inaugurated.
2004: In the framework of the Iraq War, more than 10,000 US Marines attack the insurgent village of Fallujah.
2008: a terrorist attack by drug traffickers occurs on a bus in Zacapa, Guatemala. Causing the death of 15 foreigners.
2009: in Spain, for the first time more than 50% of the electricity produced is generated by wind farms.
2011: the asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 325,000 km from Earth (0.85 times the distance from Earth to the Moon), and reaches an apparent magnitude of 11, so it could only be visible with binoculars. On December 26, 2010, the asteroid XC15 had passed 300,000 km from Earth.
2011: in Hollywood (California), the Colombian singer Shakira receives a star on the Walk of Fame. She is the first Colombian to receive this distinction.
2014: in Yemen, the General People’s Congress (CPG) party, chaired by the overthrown Yemeni dictator Ali Abdulá Saleh, decides not to be part of the new government, agreed days ago by the country’s parties.
2016: Fifty-eighth (58th) elections in the United States, Donald Trump becomes the forty-fifth (45th) President of the United States.
2019: In Brazil, former President Lula da Silva leaves jail after spending 580 days in prison.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

Events and Curiosities in Dorian's Secrets — *Who was Born “A Day as Today”?*

November 8 – A Day as Today

30: Nerva, Roman emperor (f. 98).
1028: William I, English king between 1066 and 1087 (d. 1087).
1342: Juliana of Norwich, mystical writer and English saint (d. 1416).
1431: Vlad Dracula, the Impaler (Țepeș), Wallachian military and aristocrat, a character in the novel Dracula (d. 1476).
1491: Teófilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544).
1543: Lettice Knollys, English aristocrat (d. 1634).
1563: Henry II of Lorraine, French aristocrat (d. 1624).
1572: John Sigismund I of Brandenburg, Prussian aristocrat (d. 1619).
1622: Charles X, Swedish king (d. 1660).
1656: Edmund Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1743).
1706: Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher (d. 1772).
1710: Sarah Fielding, British writer (d. 1768).
1723 – John Byron, British explorer and vice admiral (d. 1786).
1763: Xavier de Maistre, Savoyard soldier and writer (d. 1852).
1765: Martín Fernández de Navarrete, writer, sailor and Spanish librarian (d. 1844).
1778: Augusta Sofía, British aristocrat, daughter of King George III (d. 1840).
1777: Desideria Clary, French aristocrat, wife of the King of Sweden (d. 1860).
1802: Benjamin Hall, British political and civil engineer (d. 1867).
1814: Gustav Hartlaub, German physician and zoologist (d. 1900).
1847: Praxedis de la Peña García, Mexican lawyer, businessman and politician (d. 1926).
1847: Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907).
1847: Bram Stoker, Irish novelist, author of the novel Dracula (d. 1912).
1848: Gottlob Frege, German mathematician (d. 1925).
1854: Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919).
1856: Rafael Hernández León, Venezuelan composer (d. 1928).
1862: René Viviani, French politician (d. 1925).
1868: Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942).
1872: Roberto Lehmann Nitsche, German physician and ethnologist (d. 1938).
1874: Felipe Carrillo Puerto, politician, journalist and Mexican leader (d. 1924).
1876: Louis Bernacchi, Belgian astronomer (d. 1942).
1883: Arnold Bax, British composer (d. 1953).
1883: Charles Demuth, American painter (d. 1935).
1884: Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922).
1885: Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946).
1892: Erminio Blotta, Argentine sculptor (d. 1976).
1893: Prayadhipok Rama VII, Thai King (d. 1941).
1897: Dorothy Day, American Catholic activist (d. 1980).
1898: Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937).
1899: Rodulfo Brito Foucher, jurist and academic (d. 1970).
1900: Margaret Mitchell, American writer (d. 1949).
1900: Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943).
1901: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romanian president (d. 1965)
1901: Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha, Venezuelan writer, politician and diplomat. (f. 1994)
1908: Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and writer (d. 1998).
1914: George Dantzig, American mathematician (d. 2005).
1916: Peter Weiss, German writer and playwright (d. 1982).
1918: Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese naval officer (d. 1999).
1918: Hermann Zapf, German typographer and designer (d. 2015).
1919: Sergio Ossa, Chilean engineer (d. 2012).
1920: Esther Rolle, African-American actress (d. 1998).
1922: Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001).
1922: Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian soccer player (f. 1996).
1923: Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, inventor of the microchip, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 (d. 2005).
1924: Dmitri Yázov, Russian military (d. 2020).
1925: Tomás Zori, Spanish actor (f. 2002).
1925: Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress.
1925: Nina Miranda, Uruguayan singer (d. 2012).
1927: Nguyen Khanh, Vietnamese Prime Minister (d. 2013).
1927: Patti Page, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013).
1929: Dragoljub Milošević, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2005).
1929: Jona Senilagakali, Fijian politician (d. 2011).
1930: Manuel Piti Fajardo, Cuban doctor, and commander of the Sierra Maestra (d. 1960).
1931: Darla Hood, American actress (d. 1979).
1932: Stephane Audrán, French actress.
1932: Felipe Mellizo, Spanish journalist (d. 2000).
1935: Alain Delon, French film actor.
1935: Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (f. 2008).
1936: Claudio Bravo, Chilean painter (d. 2011).
1936: Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014).
1938: Driss Basri, Moroccan politician (d. 2007).
1942: Sara Gómez, filmmaker and Cuban feminist (d. 1974).
1942: Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer.
1943: Juan Ferrara, Mexican actor.
1943: David Roger Given, British botanist (d. 2005).
1946: John Farrar, Australian singer-songwriter and producer.
1946: Guus Hiddink, Dutch football coach.
1946: Roy Wood, British composer and musician, of the Electric Light Orchestra and The Move bands.
1947: Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979).
1949: Bonnie Raitt, American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
1949: Russell Mittermeier, American primatologist.
1951: Angelina Abbona, Argentine lawyer and politician.
1951: Alfredo Astiz, Argentine sailor and criminal.
1952: Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist.
1952: Alfre Woodard, American actress.
1953: John Musker, American animation director.
1954: Kazuo Ishiguro, British-Japanese writer, 2017 Nobel Prize winner for literature.
1954: Rickie Lee Jones, American singer.
1955: Patricia Barber, American blues singer-songwriter and pianist.
1956: Fernando de Villena, Spanish writer.
1956: Mari Boine, Norwegian musician.
1957: Porl Thompson, British musician, of the band The Cure.
1958: Don Byron, American clarinetist.
1960: Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor and singer.
1960: Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor.
1963: Alicia Miyares, Spanish philosopher and writer.
1965: Matthew Biondi, American swimmer winner of 7 Olympic medals.
1966: Gordon Ramsay, cook and British presenter.
1967: José Luis Pérez Caminero, Spanish footballer.
1967: Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress.
1968: Parker Posey, American actress.
1968: Zara Whites (Esther Kooiman), Dutch porn actress.
1968: Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer.
1968: José Offerman, Dominican baseball player.
1969: Hernán Caire, Argentine television host and singer.
1970: José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican soccer player.
1970: Diana King, Jamaican singer.
1970: Horacio Villalobos, Mexican actor, writer and presenter.
1971: Carlos Atanes, Spanish filmmaker.
1972: Gretchen Mol, American actress.
1973: Edgardo Alfonzo, Venezuelan baseball player.
1974: Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese mangaka.
1974: Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese mangaka.
1974: Matthew Rhys, British actor.
1975: Brevin Knight, American basketball player.
1975: José Manuel Pinto, Spanish footballer.
1975: Tara Reid, American actress.
1975: Ángel Corella, Spanish dancer.
1976: Jawhar Mnari, Tunisian footballer.
1978: Alí Karimí, Iranian soccer player.
1978: Julio Sergio, Brazilian soccer player.
1978: Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer.
1979: Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress.
1979: Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer.
1979: Dash Berlin, Dutch DJ and producer of trance music.
1979: Ana Morgade, presenter, comedian and Spanish actress
1980: Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist.
1980: Luís Fabiano, Brazilian soccer player.
1980: Sebastián Battaglia, Argentine soccer player.
1981: Joe Cole, British footballer.
1981: Bradley “Brad” Davis, American footballer.
1981: Azura Skye, American actress.
1982: Theodore DiBiase, Jr., American professional wrestler.
1982: Mika Kallio, Finnish motorcyclist.
1982: Lynndie England, American soldier, abuser and torturer (related to Abu Ghraib jail).
1982: Sam Sparro, Australian singer-songwriter, presenter and child actor.
1982: Ted DiBiase Jr., American wrestler.
1983: Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer.
1983: Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor.
1983: Blanka Vlasich, Croatian athlete.
1983: Pável Pogrebniak, Russian footballer.
1985: Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress.
1985: Jack Osbourne, British actor.
1986: Aaron Swartz, American programmer and activist (d. 2013).
1987: Kazuchika Okada, Japanese professional wrestler.
1988: Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress and singer.
1989: Morgan Schneiderlin, French footballer.
1989: Giancarlo Stanton, American baseball player.
1990: Denise Rosenthal, Chilean singer and actress.
1991: Riker Lynch, American singer, bassist, actor and dancer.
1993: Przemek Karnowski, Polish basketball player.
1994: Lauren Alaina, American singer.
1994: Will de Havilland, English footballer.
2000: Jade Pettyjohn, American actress.
2000: Jasmine Thompson, British singer.
2003: Luisa Mountbatten-Windsor, member of the British Royal Family.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

November 8 – A Day as Today

911: Louis IV of Germany, last Carolingian legislator of the Franks (b. 893).
955: Agapito II, Italian pope (n. ¿?).
1171: Baudouin IV of Jerusalem, French aristocrat (b. 1161).
1226: Louis VIII, French King (b. 1187).
1246: Berenguela de Castilla, Castilian aristocrat, wife of King Alfonso IX of León (b. 1180).
1308: Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (b. 1266).
1517: Cardinal Cisneros, Spanish religious (b.1436).
1527: Jerome Emser, German theologian (b.1477).
1599: Francisco Guerrero, Spanish musician (b. 1528).
1605: Robert Catesby, English aristocrat, leader of the Gunpowder Conspiracy (b. 1572).
1674: John Milton, English poet and novelist (b.1608).
1719: Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b.1652).
1817: Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754).
1847: María Remedios del Valle, Afro-Argentine nurse and military (b. 1766 or 1767).
1858 – George Peacock, British mathematician (b. 1791).
1873: Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796).
1876: María Victoria dal Pozzo, French aristocrat, queen consort of Spain (b. 1847).
1877: Amalia of Bavaria, German aristocrat (b.1801).
1885: Cesáreo Guillermo, Dominican president (b. 1847).
1887: Doc Holliday, American gunman and player (b. 1851).
1890: César Franck, French composer and organist of Belgian origin (b. 1822).
1890: Cristóbal Rojas, Venezuelan painter (b. 1858).
1896: Dolores Costa, Argentine woman, wife of President Urquiza (b. 1831).
1908: Victorién Sardou, French playwright (b. 1831).
1933: Mohammed Nadir Shah, Afghan King (b.1883).
1934: Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879).
1936: Arturo Ambrogi, Salvadoran journalist and writer (b. 1875).
1937 – James Ramsay MacDonald, British politician (b.1866).
1940: Alfonso Hernández Catá, Cuban short story writer (b. 1885).
1944: José Franchy y Roca, Spanish politician (b. 1871).
1944: Walter Nowotny, German pilot (b.1920).
1945 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b.1849).
1953: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize winner for Literature (b. 1870).
1959: Heleno de Freitas, Brazilian soccer player (b.1920).
1963: Alberto Insúa, Spanish writer and journalist (b. 1883).
1965: Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist (b.1913).
1968: Wendell Corey, American actor (b.1914).
1969: Joseph P. Kennedy, American businessman and politician (b. 1888).
1969: Ricardo Aguirre, Venezuelan musician (b. 1939).
1978: Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894).
1978: Armando Muñoz Calero, doctor and manager of Spanish football (d. 1908).
1979: Yvonne de Gaulle, French personality, wife of President Charles de Gaulle (b.1900).
1981: Guillermo Evans, Argentine Olympic athlete (b.1923).
1984: Ciriaco (Ciriaco Errasti), Spanish footballer (b.1904).
1985: Nicolás Frantz, Luxembourg cyclist (b.1899).
1985: Masten Gregory, American Formula 1 driver (b.1932).
1986: Franz Xaver Dorsch, German engineer (b. 1889).
1986: Viacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890).
1990: Lawrence Durrell, Indo-French writer (b.1912).
1993: Andrei Nikolayevich Tíjonov, Russian mathematician (b. 1906).
1998: Jean Marais, French actor (b.1913).
1998: Rumer Godden, British writer (b.1907).
1999: Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (b.1941).
1999: César Miró, Peruvian writer and composer (b.1907).
1999: Antonio Fernández-Galiano, Spanish politician (b.1926).
1999: León Stukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898).
2001: Marisa Dippe, Argentine actress, theater director and puppeteer (b. 1964).
2004: Nelly Meden, Argentine actress (b. 1928).
2006: Basil Poledouris, American composer of Greek origin (b. 1945).
2007: Mario Sánchez, Argentine actor and humorist (b. 1936).
2009: Vitali Guínzburg, Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel laureate in physics in 2003 (b.1916).
2010: Gregorio Barradas Miravete, Mexican politician (b.1982).
2010: Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine dictator and admiral; in prison (b.1925).
2010: Mikhail Savitsky, Belarusian painter (b.1922).
2010: Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b.1961).
2010: Jack Levine, American realist painter and printmaker (b.1915).
2011: Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer (b.1934).
2011: Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper (b.1967).
2011: Oscar Cantuarias, Peruvian Archbishop (b.1931).
2011: Ed Macauley, American basketball player (b.1928).
2012: Lizardo Díaz, Colombian actor and singer, of the folklore group Los Tolimenses (b.1928).
2014: Aurora Bernárdez, Argentine translator and writer, ex-wife of Julio Cortázar (b.1920).
2014: Giovan Battista Pirovano, Italian footballer (b.1937).
2014: Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian basketball player (b.1928).