What happened on November 8th?

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Year What happened?
392 AD Theodosius I completely prohibits the worship of the pagan gods Learn more..
  1127 years
1519 Cortes conquered Mexico. Learn more..
  83 years
1602 Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public Learn more..
  54 years
1656 Astronomer and mathematician Edmund Halley was born in London. Learn more..
  18 years
1674 John Milton dies in London Learn more..
  57 years
1731 Benjamin Franklin opens the first public library in Philadelphia Learn more..
  116 years
1847 Dracula author Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more..
  48 years
1895 X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany. Learn more..
1900 Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Learn more..
  20 years
1920 Rupert Bear first appeared in the Daily Express Learn more..
1922 Pioneering heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard was born in Beaufort West, Cape of Good Hope Province, South Africa. Learn more..
1923 The Beer Hall Putsch took place in the Buergerbraukeller in Munich. Learn more..
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of USA Learn more..
1939 An assassination attempt on Hitler failed at the Buergerbraukeller in Munich. Learn more..
1942 Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa, began as 400,000 soldiers landed at Morocco and Algeria. Learn more..
  45 years
1987 A bomb blast kills 12 during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland Learn more..
  38 years
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