The November 8th is the 312e Jour of the Année (313e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 53 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

•    392: Théodose I {{er}} imposes a legislation abolishing the pagan worships and prohibiting any pagan behavior in the Empire.

• Théodose prohibits all the pagan religious demonstrations (philosophical schools of Athens, Olympic Games, Mystères of Éleusis, etc).
• Théodose entrusts the protection of Valentinien II and the defense of the Gaulle to the frank and pagan general Arbogast. This one becomes by its value and its extremely popular experiment in the army. Valentinien which supports its supervision badly, the fact of revoking. Arbogast refuses to obey and makes assassinate Valentinien (according to another version, it would have committed suicide), then gives the empire to the one of his/her friends, Eugene, senior official of the imperial chancellery.
•    535: Opening to Arvernis (future Clermont , auj. Clermont-Ferrand) of the first Council of Clermont , with the participation of fifteen bishops, of which Césaire of Arles, Holy Nizier, bishop of Trier and Holy Hilaire, bishop of Mende. Sixteen decrees were taken there, in particular the second gun who points out that the episcopal dignity, the fact of becoming bishop , must be granted according to the merits and not following intrigues. He moreover is decided there that the Juif S cannot become Juge S.
• 1519: Hernando the Cortes, Spanish conquistador , reached the town of Mexico City.
• 1793 : The Musée of Louvre is inaugurated.
• 1895 : Discovered X-ray by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

XXe century

• 1904 : Theodore Roosevelt is re-elected at the station of President of the United States

• 1912: the Greek take Thessalonique and Mytilène.
• 1917 : Lénine becomes president of the council in Russia
• 1923: With Munich, failure of the Putsch of the brewery ( Bürgerbräukeller , called Hitlerputsch in German), fomented by Adolf Hitler, which will be stopped at once and imprisoned.
• 1932 : Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes President of the United States
• 1933: Zaher Shah goes up on the throne in Afghanistan
• 1939: An attack against Hitler fails.
• 1942 :
• Algiers, Putsch of November 8th, 1942 Taken city during a few hours by 400 resistant French, to prevent the Vichyist generals from drawing on the allies as in Morocco
• Operation Torch Unloading combined in North Africa successful thanks to French Resistance.
  
• 1950 : The first air engagement in Korea, where American hunters are attacked by Mig North-Korean, close to the Yalou.
• 1956 : UNO claims the withdrawal of the Soviet troops of Hungary.
• 1959 : The Egypt and the Sudan sign an agreement on the division of water of the the Nile, after the construction of the stopping of Aswan.
• 1960 : John Fitzgerald Kennedy is elected President of the United States
• 1962: Election of Marc Boegner ( Pasteur Boegner ) (1881-1970) with the French Academy.
• 1966 : The town of Florence lance a call using the world community to save its artistic richnesses damaged by the rising of the Arno.
• 1968 : Francis Bebey, receives the literary prize of the black Africa.
• 1977 : the Israeli army bombards armed camps Palestinians with the South-Lebanon.
• 1988 : George Bush is elected 41e President of the United States
• 1990: The American president George Bush orders 200.000 additional soldier sending in the Golfe. The American forces exceed the 300.000 men.
• 1993 :
• Jacques Diouf, first African with the head of FAO
• Amin Maalouf receives the Prix Goncourt
• 1998:
• the voters calédoniens approve by Référendum with a very vast majority the Accord of Noumea envisaging a greater autonomy of the territory. (the " oui" carries with 79,99% of the votes, but with a rate of abstention from 63,1%).
• Élection of Hugo Chávez like chairs Venezuela.
• 2000 : After the National Assembly in 1998, the Sénat adopts a private bill recognizing the Armenian genocide 1915 perpetrated by the Turks; the Turkey condemns this recognition.

XXIe century

• 2002 :

• the president of the Convention on the future of Europe, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, is firmly opposed to adhesion Turkey with the European Union.
• the Safety advice of the United Nations approves unanimously the resolution 1441, presented by the the United States, on the disarmament of the Iraq, forcing the president Saddam Hussein to carry out the elimination of its weapons of massive destruction under penalty of having to face " low registers conséquences" if it does not accept controls of the inspectors of IAEA.
• Opening of XVIe Congress of the Chinese Communist party with Beijing ( Beijing ) (China). (end the 14).
• 2003 :
• the president of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat leaves victorious an arm wrestling with its Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei: he keeps finally the control of the security forces and place one of his close relations to the head of the ministry for the Interior.
• the Face Polisario slackening 300 Moroccan prisoners of war held since 20 years.
• 2004 : The American and Iraqi forces launch a massive onslaught on Falloujah, with an aim of taking again this city fallen to the hands of insurgent the sunnites; this battle will make 31 dead among the American soldiers and more than 1.000 died in the rows of the insurrectionists.
• 2005 :
• After 12 days of violences in the suburbs, the government authorizes the prefects to be resorted to the curfew to allow the return to a state of calm.
• the CIA seizes the American department of Justice concerning the escape bound for journalists of the " Washington Post " secret information potentially classified on the existence of clandestine prisons directed by the information agency.
• 2006 :
• First celebration of the Chuck Lanson Day (also called Chluk Lanson Day ), night TI (International Ground) celebrated in Karon Beach, Phuket, Thailand. This festival is in particular known because it consumes there a typical alcoholic drink of Karon, the Mekong-Tomato.

Births

• 30: Nerva, Roman Emperor of 96 with 98, Narnia, in Ombrie (Italy). († January 25th 98).

• 1027 : William the Conqueror, king of England († the September 9th 1087).
• 1737 : Antoine Bruny d' Entrecasteaux, French navigator († July 20th 1793).
• 1743 : Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig, German entomologist († the October 10th 1831).
• 1810 : Pierre Thicket, Marshal of France
• 1825: Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Doctor and German arachnologist | († on November 1st 1908).
• 1847
• Jean Casimir-Perier, president of the French Republic of 1894 with 1895 († the March 11th 1907).
• Bram Stoker, Irish writer author of Dracula
• 1893: Edouard Francomme, actor French.
• 1900 : Margaret Mitchell, American novelist († the August 16th 1949).
• 1909 : Katharine Hepburn, American actress († the June 29th 2003).
• 1913 : Emmanuelle de Dampierre, duchess of Anjou and Segovia ( , point of view France's First Lady of the legitimists).
• 1922 : Christiaan Barnard, South-African doctor († the September 2nd 2001).
• 1931 : Georges Maciunas, artist founder of the movement Fluxus
• 1935: Alain Delon, French actor.
• 1936 : Edward Gibson, American astronaut
• 1940: Charles T. Kowal, American astronomer
• 1947: Mr. Rhea Seddon, American astronaut
• 1948: Flagstone A. Gardner, American astronaut
• 1959: Tom Novembre, actor and singer French.
• 1967 : Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
• 1968: Zara Whites, Dutch erotic actress
• 1969: Boris Terral, French actor.
• 1973 : Florence Foresti, French humorist.
• 1976 : Cylia Malki, French actress.
• 1981 : Joe Sticks, footballer English.

Death

•    397: Holy Martin de Tours in Candes (° in 316 or 317).
• 1226 : Louis VIII, King de France (° the September 5th 1187).
• 1325 : Wislaw III of Rügen
• 1388: Pierre Aycelin de Montaigut, or of Montagu , known under the name of Cardinal of Laon , religious French of the 14th century, cardinal bishop, , bishop-duke of Laon of 1370 with 1386, adviser of the king de France Charles V, Even of France.
• 1674 : John Milton, poet English (° the December 9th 1608).
• 1788 : Johann Karl Zeune, 52 years, German Philologist . (° October 29th 1736).
• 1828 : Thomas Bewick, engraver and British Ornithologist (° 1753).
• 1890 : César Auguste Franck, Belgian type-setter (° the December 10th 1822).
• 1908 : Victorien Sardou, dramatic author French (° the September 5th 1831).
• 1924 : Sergueï Liapounov, Russian Type-setter (° the November 30th 1859).
• 1953 : Ivan Bounine, Russian writer and Nobel Prize of literature (° the October 22nd 1870).
• 1979 : Yvonne Vendroux wife of the general Charles de Gaulle (° the May 22nd 1900).
• 1986 : Viatcheslav Mikhaïlovitch Molotov, diplomat of the Soviet Union
• 1988: François Pluchart, 51 years, writer, Critic Journalist and art French, specialist in the Contemporary art. (° August 5th 1937).
• 1999 : Iouri Malychev, Soviet cosmonaut (° 1941)
• 1998: Jean Marsh, actor French (° the December 11th 1913).
• 2000 : Deceived ( Luc Dupanloup ), creator of the Cartoon Cubitus (° the February 12th 1945).
• 2003 : Mario Merz, Italian sculptor (° January 1st 1925)

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Synaxe of the archangels Michel, Gabriel and Raphaël (Byzantine date).
• Maur de Verdun († 383), bishop.

• Willihad of Bremen († 789), bishop and apostle of the Saxon ones.

Catholic saints of the day

• Godefroy of Amiens († 1118), bishop.

Orthodoxe saints of the day

• Marthe de Psov († 1300), died in peace.

See too

• November 8th in sport
• November 8th in the railroads

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