Birthdates Which Occur on November 8:
1572 Johan Sigismund ruler of Firenburg/duke of Prussia
1590 Francesco Gonzaga composer
1592 Domenico Mazzocchi composer
1622 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War)
and Karl X Gustaf King of Sweden (1654-60)
1647 Pierre Bayle French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer
1656 Edmund Halley English astronomer (comet of Halley) [OS=Oct 29]
1657 Thomas Bullis composer
1693 Leonhard Trautsch composer
1715 Elisabeth C van Brunswick-Bevern wife of Frederik II "the Great"
1760 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael South Neth earl/general
1770 Fredrich Witt composer
1814 Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada Albanian poet (Skanderbeku)
1817 Claudius Wistar Sears Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
and Theodoor J Canneel Flemish painter
1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1830 Oliver Otis Howard Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
1831 Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton English under king of India
1834 Johann C F Z”llner German astronoom (astro photo meter)
1848 Gottlob Frege Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)
1849 Edward Julius Biedermann composer
1850 Karel Komzak composer
1854 Jean R‚ville French vicar/theologist (Liberal Protestantism)
1863 Ren‚ [Raphael] Viviani French historian/social premier (1914-15)
1867 Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn composer
1876 Frank L Gillespie Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
1878 Marshall Walter "Mayor" Taylor famous African
1879 King Baggot I St Louis MO, director (Tumbleweeds)
1882 Lazare Saminsky composer
1883 Arnold Ed Trevor Bax London, England, composer (Farewell My Youth)
and Ethel Clayton MO, actress (Hotel Continental)
1887 Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin composer
1888 David Monrad Johansen composer
1893 John Miljan Lead City SD, actor (Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox)
1895 Hermann Schey German/Neth singer
1896 Bucky Harris baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1897 Dorothy Day author (Stump the Authors)
19-- Chi Chi LaRue XXX actor (Laze, Hard Body)
and Hortensia Colorado Blue Island Ill, actress (Betty LaSada-Nurse)
and Margaret Ladd RI, actress (Emma-Falcon Crest, As the World Turns)
1900 Georges Lonque composer
and Margaret Mitchell author (Gone With the Wind)
and Mihailo Vukdragovic composer
1901 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej Romania party leader/president
and Szymon Laks composer
1902 Mihail A Suslov Soviet-party ideologist [NS=Nov 22]
and Walerian Josef Gniot composer
1907 Otto Brenner German worker's union leader
1909 Alberto Erede Italian conductor
and Katharine Hepburn Ct, actress (African Queen, On Golden Pond)
1912 Jean-Louis Martinet composer
1913 Robert Strauss NYC, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey)
1914 Lute T de Cock student/resistance fighter
and Norman Lloyd Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)
1916 June Havoc Seattle Wash, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater)
and Peter Weiss Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1921 Douglas Townsend composer
and Gene Saks NY, actor/director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave)
and Jerome Hines Hollywood Calif, basso (I am The Way)
1922 Christiaan Barnard S Africa, surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant)
and Esther Rolle Pompano Beach Fla, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1923 Dmitri T Jazov Russian minister of defense (1991 coup)
1924 Joe Flynn Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy)
1927 Patti Page [Clara Ann Fowler], Claremont Ok, singer (Tennessee Waltz)
1930 Bob Harris Long Beach Calif, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters)
1931 Morley Safer Toronto Calif, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
1932 Stephane Audran Versailles France, actress (Just Before Nightfall)
1935 Alain Delon France, actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro)
1936 Edward G Gibson Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4)
and Viscount Mountgarret [Butler], English large landowner
1938 John Asprey British jeweler/multi-millionaire
and Pleuni Touw Dutch actress (Black Rider)
and Pleuntje "Pleuni" Cordon actress (Dear Guys)
and Richard Stoker composer
1942 A Y Kramarenko cosmonaut
and Angel Cordero Jr jockey (won over 6,000 races) [or May 8]
and Gerald Alston US singer (Manhattans-Crazy)
1943 Martin Peters British soccer player
1944 Bonnie Bramlett rock vocalist (Delandy & Bonnie)
and Rodney Desborough Slater rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
1945 Arnold Rosner composer
and David Jessel British TV-reporter
and Judith Lang Zaimont composer
and Roy Wood Birmingham England, rock vocalist/celloist (ELO)
1947 Margaret Rhea Seddon Murfreesboro Tenn, MD/astro (STS 51D, 40, SK:58)
and Minnie Ripperton Chicago, singer (Loving You)
1948 Dale A Gardner Fairmont Minn, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A)
1949 Al Berger rocker
and Bonnie Raitt Burbank CA, country singer (Green Light, The Glow)
1951 Larry Burnette rocker (Firefall)
and Mary Hart Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1952 Christie Hefner daughter of Hugh Hefner, Playboy CEO
and Jan Raas Dutch bicyclist
1954 Rickie Lee Jones Chicago, singer (Chuck E's in Love)
1956 Randi Brooks NYC, actress (Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope)
1958 Terry Lee Miall England, rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1961 Leif Garrett Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road)
1965 Bart Latuheru soccer player (Vitesse)
1966 Ulrich Cruden soccer player (NEC)
1967 Courtney Thorne-Smith actress (Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School)
and Kim Dugger Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991)
1968 Michelle Kline Circle Pines Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
and Parker Posey Balt Md, actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns)
197- Zara White Netherland, XXX actress (Lethal Woman, Nurse Nancy)
1971 Twan Scheepers soccer player (MVV)
Deaths Which Occured November 8:
397 Martinus van Tours [St Maarten], bishop of Tours, dies
618 Deusdedit/Adeodatus I Italian Pope (615-18), dies
1226 Louis VIII the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies
1228 Dirk I gentleman of Heinsberg/Valkenburg, dies
1308 Duns Scotus Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
1494 Melozzo da Forli Italian painter, dies at about 56
1517 Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros cardinal/Chancellor of Castili‰, dies
1578 Johann Walter composer, dies at 51
1590 Joost Jansz Bilhamer master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49
1595 Peter Opmeer church historian/humanist, dies at 69
1638 Johann H Alsted German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50
1658 Pieter Florisz Dutch admiral, dies in battle at about 50
White de With vice-admiral, dies in battle at 59
1674 John Milton English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65
1694 Ulrik Huber Fries lawyer/historic rights/polemist, dies at 58
1757 Pierre Prowo composer, dies at 60
1805 Fran‡ois-Thomas de Baculard d'arnaud French writer, dies at 87
1811 Charles F Bentinck Dutch minister of Colonization, dies at 47
1817 Andrea Appiana Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
1833 Maximilian Stadler composer, dies at 85
1880 Jacob Edvard Gille composer, dies at 66
1885 Johannes Kneppelhout [Klikspan], author, dies
1886 Frederick J "Fred" Archer English jockey, commits suicide at 29
1890 Cesar Franck composer, dies at 67
1908 Victorien Sardou French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
1909 Charles Bordes composer, dies at 46
Eduard de Hartog composer, dies at 80
1920 Abraham Kuyper clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 57
Salomon Anski Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1924 Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov composer, dies at 64
1928 Mauritz Stiller Swedish actor/director (Streets of sin), dies
1933 Mohammed Nadir Shah king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig
1935 Elisabeth F”rster-Nietzsche German author, dies at 89
1937 James Ramsay MacDonald British PM (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies
1940 Alfonso Hernandez Cata Cuban author (El parag‚), dies
1941 Gaetano Mosca Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies
1944 Walter Nowotny German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
1953 John van Melle South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
1963 Simon Jurovsky composer, dies at 51
1965 Dorothy Kilgallen columnist (What's My Line?), dies at 52
1966 Bernhard Zondek German/Israeli gynacologist, dies
1968 Wendell Corey actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54
1969 Kam Tong actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund), dies at 62
1974 Ivory Joe Hunter rocker, dies at 60
1978 Norman Rockwell artist, dies in Stockbridge, Mass, at 84
1979 Sydney Tafler actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63
1983 Robert Agnew director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
1984 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen composer, dies at 81
1986 Beatrice Kay singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78
1989 Andr‚ Kloos chairman (NVV, VARA), dies at 67
1990 Anya Seton US author, dies
Grampy Davis dies of heart attack at 87
1991 Christine Felsmann dies
Frances Faye singer/actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes
John Kirckpatrick US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies
Patrick Hamilton author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
1992 Hans Zllig Swiss/German dancer (Green Table), dies
Kees [Cornelis] Broekman skater (Olympic-silver-1952), dies
Keith "Red" Mitchell US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies
1994 Garson Romalis abortion doctor, killed (no arrests)
Holidays Which Occur November 8:
Montana Admissions Day (1889)
Religious Observances on November 8:
RC Claudius, martyr
RC Commemoration of Holy 4 Crowned Martyrs
RC Euphrosyne the Jongere [Joannes], female abbot
1115 Christian Commemoration of St Godfrey, bishop of France,
Things to Remember for November 8:
Flower-chrysanthemum Gem-topaz
International Creative Child & Adult Month
National Raisin Bread & Television Sweeps Month
[NY] Puerto Rican Heritage Month
7 Days Taurid meteor shower
13 Days Astrological sign: Scorpio
Dunce Day (1308)
Punster's Day
Highlights in History Which Occur November 8:
392 Emperor Theodosius declares christian religion, state religion
618 St Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
911 Duke Koenraad I chosen German king
1322 Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht
1494 Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy
1519 1st meeting of Montezuma & Hern ndo Cort‚s in Mexico
1575 French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty
1576 Pacificatie of Gent: 17 Dutch provinces signs anti-Spanish covenant
1598 Spanish troops under of Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1620 Battle of White Mountain, Prague
1627 English fleet under George Villiers leaves Rh‚
1638 Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts
1658 Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch
1701 William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
1734 Cook Vincent la Chapelle forms Free Masons Lodge
1789 Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by El˜ah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
1793 Louvre in Paris, opens
1805 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean
1833 Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die
1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
1838 Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas," premieres in Paris
1842 Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)
1853 J R Hind discovers asteroid #27 Euterpe
1861 Battle of Mount Ivy, KY
and US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1864 Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president
1870 Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
1875 J Palisa discovers asteroid #155 Scylla
1883 English airship Nisero stranded at Atjeh
1884 German govt recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 Montana admitted as 41st state
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
1895 Wilhelm R”ntgen discovers x-rays
1898 A Charlois discovers asteroid #438 Zeuxo
1900 Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
1904 Pres Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1910 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1917 People's Commission gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin
and Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
1918 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
1920 Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
1923 Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Mnchen (Munich)
1924 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
and Fortune Theatre opens in London
1926 George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay," premieres in NYC
1928 George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl," premieres in NYC
1929 Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38," premieres in Paris
and NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1930 Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro," premieres in Berlin
1931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3416 Dorrit
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time
1933 FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1936 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1755 Lorbach
1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
1939 Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Brgerbraukeller, Mnich
and H Lindsay & R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in NYC
1940 RAF bombs Munich
1942 Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa (Casablanca)
and Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad
and Operation "Torch" began as US & British forces land in French N Afr
and Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
1944 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor
and Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders
1945 Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
1946 Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse," premieres in Paris
1948 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1690 Mayrhofer
1950 1st jet-plane battle of Korean War
and C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #2044 Wirt
1953 Salazars party wins all parliament chair in Portugal
1954 AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1956 UN demands USSR leave Hungary
1957 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2848
and KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
and Tunisian pres Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair
1960 JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for president
1962 Canada govt orders changing nickel back to round shape
1964 IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
and KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965 "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV
and British Indian Ocean Territory formed
1966 Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate
and Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
and Pres Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
1967 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)
and Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John
1970 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
1973 Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
1974 British Lord Lucan disappears
and Bundy victim (?) Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3238
and Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1977 E F Helin & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2430 Bruce Helin
and E F Helin discovers asteroid #2099 Opik
1978 Tom Stoppard's "Night & Day," premieres in London
1979 Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy," premieres in NYC
ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank
and Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")
1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2648 Owa
and Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1981 Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
1983 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
and STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad
and W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
1984 Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit
and STS 51-A mission; launch
1985 Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes
and IRA-bomb attack in Enniskillen North Ireland, 11 killed
1988 900 die as earthquake hits China
and George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency
and Rafael Fern ndez Col¢n elected if pres of Puerto Rico
1990 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
and Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1991 Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV
1992 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin
1994 Haitian govt of Smarck Michel forms
Your Special Reminders for November 8:
1886 29øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1938 76øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 312th day of year with 53 days left (Numerology = 1)
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