It happened on this day, November 8
Events:
1519 – Hernán Cortés enters the Aztec city and Governor Moctezuma welcomes him warmly.
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain took place near the city of Prague, which was the first battle of the Thirty Years' War which united Catholics and Protestants, and the victory was won by the imperial army led by Ferdinand II. .
1687 – Sultan Mehmed IV is removed from leadership of the Ottoman Empire
1793 – The government of the French Revolution opens the doors of the Louvre Palace to the public as a museum.
1864 – Modernization of the state administration system in the Ottoman Empire.
1889 – Montana joins the United States as the 41st state.
1901 – Bloody clashes in Athens after the translation of Bibles into the popular Greek language.
1942 – The French Vichy government decides to sever diplomatic relations with the United States at the height of World War II.
1949 – Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces Israel's right to annex Jerusalem. This is the first declaration revealing the intention to annex it to the Israeli state.
1960 – John Kennedy is elected President of the United States.
1965 – The death penalty is officially abolished in the United Kingdom.
✴️ Creation of the British Indian Ocean Territory, consisting of the Chagos Archipelago and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Deroches.
1981 – The University of Argentina awards an honorary doctorate to the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, with the rank of professor, due to his achievements at the local level of the United Arab Emirates and internationally.
1992 – The Japanese national football team wins the Asian Championship Cup after defeating the Saudi national team 1-0.
2004 – More than ten thousand American troops, supported by the Air Force, begin the siege of the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
✴️ Suha Arafat, wife of Palestinian National Authority President Yasser Arafat, accuses Ahmed Qurei, Mahmoud Abbas and Nabil Shaath of conspiring against Arafat and inheriting from him while alive.
2005 – A state of emergency is declared in France after unrest in the Paris suburbs.
✴️ Syrian opposition political activist Kamal al-Labwani was arrested upon arrival at Damascus International Airport, returning from a visit to the United States and Europe.
2006 – US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigns from his post after the Republicans' defeat in the midterm elections due to the American people's rejection of the war in Iraq.
2014 – Start of the 2014 World Chess Championship, pitted against world champion Magnus Carlsen and his rival Vishvanathan Anand.
2015 – Hurricane Meg hits Socotra, Yemen, in the Arabian Sea, heading towards Aden and Abyan.
2017 – Syrian authorities announce the control by the Syrian army of the town of Abu Kamal, east of the governorate of Deir ez-Zor on the Iraqi border, the last town under the control of the Islamic State in Iraq and in the Levant.
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Births:
30 – Emperor Nerva, the first of the Antonine Roman emperors.
1656 – Edmund Halley, British astronomer.
1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish writer.
1848 – Kotleb Frege, German mathematician and philosopher.
1868 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician.
1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American novelist.
1912 – Zozo Hamdi Al-Hakim, Egyptian actress.
1923 – Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.
1938 – Idriss Al-Basri, Moroccan politician.
1943 – Martin Pieters, English footballer and manager.
(1945–AbdelazizBelkhademAlgerian politician
1946 – Guus Hiddink, Dutch football coach.
** Mohy Ismail, Egyptian actor.
1953 – John Musker, American animation director.
1954 – Hassan Abu Lebdeh, Palestinian statistician, politician and minister.
1965 – Arrogance, Kuwaiti actress.
1967 – José Luis Caminero, Spanish footballer.
** Courtney Thorne Smith, American actress.
1968 – Parker Posey, American actress.
1969 – Zahra Arafat, Bahraini actress.
1974 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist.
1975 – Tara Reid, American actress. José Pinto, Spanish football goalkeeper.
1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer. Julio Sergio, Brazilian football goalkeeper.
** Tim de Clare, Dutch footballer.
1979 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer.
** Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress.
1980 – Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer.
1981 – Joe Cole, English footballer.
1988 – Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress.
1997 – Akram Tawfik, Egyptian footballer.
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Death:
1517 – Gonzalo Cisneros, Spanish cardinal and politician.
1627 – Jahangir, ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1669 – Mengak Pasha, Syrian poet.
1674 – John Milton, English poet.
1830 – King Francesco I, king of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physicist.
1953 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933.
1986 – Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet politician.
2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003.
2010 – Muhammad Abdo Yamani, Saudi Minister of Information.
2011 – Khalil Zainal, Kuwaiti actor.
** Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer.
** Salim Makhouli, Palestinian poet, painter and doctor.
2015 – Abdul Razzaq Abdul Wahid, Iraqi poet.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ International Urban Day.
