November 8

1793 The Louvre opens as a museum.

1923 Beer Hall Putsch begins

Adolf Hitler, president of the far-right Nazi Party, launches the Beer Hall Putsch, his first attempt at seizing control of the German government.

November 8th
 

Don't read the FIRST one, dicksbro!!)



In 1970, the Great Bengal Frog War began - a "frantic frog-killing orgy" which left thousands of the poor creatures dead.


In 1974 Covent Garden ceased to be London's flower & vegetable market as it moved across the Thames, leaving the old warehouses and Floral Hall to be re-developed


In the first-ever dogfight between jet fighters, a U.S. Air Force Lockheed F-80 shot down a Soviet MiG-15 over Korea in 1950


The 13-ton bell in the Palace of Westminster clock tower got it's name, Big Ben, from Sir Benjamin Hall, born today in 1802.

(Lots of people think that Big Ben is the tower itself..... which is actually St. Stephen's tower!!)

November 9th
 

Today in 1888, a woman named Marie Kelly became the first victim of.... "Jack the Ripper"!


In 1966, John Lennon first met Yoko Ono at a preview of her art exhibition at Barry Miles, Peter Asher and John Dunbar's Indica Books & Gallery at Mason's Yard, London


In 1989, the East German government allowedfree pasage through the Berlin Wall. The next day, bulldozers began demolishing the 28-year-old barrier.


An Act of Parliament was passed today in 1868, declaring voting by women illegal. An earlier Act allowed all ratepayers to vote, without specifying that they must be male!!

In 1858 on this date, the 1st performance of the NY Symphony Orchestra took place.

1965 The great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.

1856 ~ a telegraph line was opened between Newfoundland and New York.

In 1932, Foster Hewitt made his first Hockey Night in Canada broadcast. Boston and Toronto tied 1-1.

November 10th
 

Romania entered WWI (for the SECOND time!!) one day before it finished, in 1918.


On this day in 1969, twenty years after he first released Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer Gene Autry finally received an award for the song.


The first rugby league game ever to be televised was the Second Test between Great Britain and New Zealand, played in Manchester in 1951. Great Britain won 20-19.


The 'haunted' wreck of the U.S. brig Somers , on which the stroy "Billy Budd" was based, was discovered today in 1987.

On Nov. 11, 1918, fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.

November 11th
 

In 2000, a cable-car being pulled through an Alpine tunnel in Austria caught fire, resulting in a death toll of 155 people


In 1965, Ian Smith's Rhodesian government unilaterally declared independence from Britain


The Royal Mail was first carried by train, between Liverpool and Manchester, today in 1830.


In 1975 Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed the government, led by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

(and DM got his leathers!!!:D)

November 12th
 

Yep..... a notable date in history indeed!! :)


Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union in 1927 - thus beginning the systematic slaughter of an estimated 43 MILLION of his own people!!!


In 1987 Vincent Van Gogh's 'Irises' was sold for a then world record £30.2 million ($48.3 million) He painted it while a patient at the St. Remy lunatic asylum


The Conservative Party held it's first conference in 1867, at the Freemasons' Tavern in London's Great Queen Strret.


In 1997 a Brazilian court ruled that as his crime had been committed more than 20 years previously, Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs could not be extradited to Britain

Speaking of Brazil ... in 1989, Brazil held it's first free presidential election in 29 years. Hats off to Brazil. :)

On Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. The Americans ended up winning a major victory over the Japanese.

On Nov. 13, 1956, the American Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.

November 13th
 

Ugandan rainmaker Festo Kazarwa was beaten to death today in 1988, after a freak hailstorm destoyed his village's crops.


In 1999 Lennox Lewis became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, winning a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas


On this day in 1907, inventor Paul Corno made the first helicpter flight, lifting his machine ~ powered by two propellors ~ six feet above a Normandy field.


Public donations helped the Archbishop of Canterbury to buy the original manuscript of 'Alice In Wonderland' from the U.S. Library Of Congress in 1948