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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of November 08:

 1656 Sir Edmond Halley 1st to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet)
1848 Gottlob Frege Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)
1876 Frank L Gillespie Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
1878 Marshall Walter "Mayor" Taylor famous African
1883 Sir Arnold Bax London, England, composer (Farewell My Youth)
1896 Bucky Harris baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1897 Dorothy Day author (Stump the Authors)
19-- Hortensia Colorado Blue Island IL, actress (Maria-Passions)
19-- Margaret Ladd RI, actress (Emma-Falcon Crest, As the World Turns)
1900 Margaret Mitchell writer (Gone With the Wind)
1913 Robert Strauss NYC, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey)
1914 Norman Lloyd Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)
1916 June Havoc Seattle Wash, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater)
1916 Peter Weiss Germany, Swedish writer/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1921 Gene Saks actor/director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave)
1921 Jerome Hines Hollywood CA, basso (I am The Way)
1922 Christiaan Barnard South Africa, surgeon (performs 1st heart transplant)
1922 Esther Rolle Pompano Beach FL, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1924 Joe Flynn Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy)
1927 Patti Page Claremont Oklahoma, singer (Tennessee Waltz)
1930 Bob Harris Long Beach CA, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters)
1931 Morley Safer Toronto Canada, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
1935 Alain Delon France, actor (Honor Among Thieves)
1936 Edward G Gibson Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4)
1942 Angel Cordero Jr jockey (won over 6,000 races)
1947 Margaret Rhea Seddon Murfreesboro TN, MD/astro (STS 51D, STS 40)
1947 Minnie Ripperton Chicago, singer (Loving You)
1948 Dale A Gardner Fairmont MN, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A)
1949 Bonnie Raitt LA, singer/guitarist (Green Light, The Glow, Thing Called Love)
1951 Mary Hart Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1952 Christie Hefner daughter of Hugh Hefner, Playboy CEO
1954 Rickie Lee Jones Chicago, singer (Chuck E's in Love)
1956 Randi Brooks NYC, actress (Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope)
1961 Leif Garrett Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road)
1967 Courtney Thorne-Smith actress (Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School)
1967 Kim Dugger Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991)
1968 Parker Posey Baltimore MD, actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns)

Deaths which occurred on November 08:

1308 Duns Scotus who coined the word "dunce", dies
1933 King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, assassinated by Abdul Khallig
1965 Dorothy Kilgallen columnist (What's My Line?), dies at 52
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
1978 Norman Rockwell artist, dies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at 84
1983 Robert Agnew director, died at 84 of kidney failure
1986 Beatrice Kay singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1965    PARKER           RICHARD H.        AUSTRALIA                    AUSTRALIAN ARMY  1RAR  
 1967    ADAMS            JOHN R.           CHICO                 CA       
 1967    BRENNEMAN        RICHARD C.        MISHAWAKA             IN     03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV     ALIVE IN 96
 1967    BAXTER           BRUCE R.          LOWELL                MA     "CRASH 5 DEAD/PILOT RECOV-C&C DET, 5TH SFG (ABN)1SF"  SFG
 1967    EVERT            LAWRENCE G.       CODY                  WY     DEAD  
 1967    HINES            VAUGHN M.         ARCADIA               CA       
 1967    KUSICK           JOSEPH G.         BRUIN                 PA     CRASH DEAD PILOT RECOV  
 1967    WEATHERMAN       EARL C.           ORANGE                CA     04/01/68 DIC DURING ESCAPE  
 1970    CORONA           JOEL              PHARR                 TX

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On this day...

618 St Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1789 Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon KY)
1793 Louvre in Paris, opens
1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts-1st US college founded for women
1861 US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1864 Abraham Lincoln elected to his 2nd term as President
1870 Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
1889 Montana admitted as 41st state
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) elected President
1895 Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1900 Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
1904 President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1910 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected President for 1st time
1933 FDR creates the Civil Works Administration
1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia
1942 Operation "Torch" began as US & British forces land in French N Africa
1944 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to the Nazis for forced labor
1950 1st jet-plane battle of Korean War
1954 AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1956 UN demands USSR leave Hungary
1960 JFK (MA-D-Sen) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for President
1965 "Days of Our Lives" premiers on TV
1965 British Indian Ocean Territory formed
1966 Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-MA) becomes 1st black elected to Senate
1966 Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
1966 President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
1967 Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
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 Bundy victim (?) Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, UT
1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to "Nightline")
1980 Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1983 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
1983 STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad
1983 W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
1984 Anna Fisher becomes the 1st "mom" to go into orbit
1984 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 the Irish Republican Army exploded at Ulster Remembrance Day Service
1988 900 die as earthquake hits China
1988 George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for Presidency
1990 100,000 additional US troops are sent to the Persian gulf
1990 Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1991 The Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV
1994 Republicans regain control of US Congress
2016 Donald John Trump (R) beats Hillary Clinton (D) to become the 45th President of the United States.




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Montana : Admission Day (1889)
World : World Community Day (1945) (pray for peace) - - - - - ( Friday )
England : Lord Mayor's Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Religious Observances

Christian : St Claude
RC : Commemoration of Holy 4 Crowned Martyrs
Christian : Commemoration of St Godfrey, bishop of France,

Religious History

1837 Mt. Holyoke Seminary first opened in Massachusetts. Founded by Mary Lyon, 39, it was the first college in the U.S. established specifically for the education of women.
1889 Birth of Oswald J. Smith, Canadian clergyman. Founder of the People's Church of Toronto, Smith also authored a number of books and composed more than 1,200 hymns, including "The Song of the Soul Set Free."
1904 Emile Combs introduced a bill for the separation of Church and State in France. The bill passed in December 1905, thereby ending the Concordat of 1801 and allowing complete liberty of conscience.
1951 American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'The higher the mountains, the more understandable is the glory of Him who made them and who holds them in His hand.'
1952 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.... When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

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