Major Events
- 1734 Vincent La Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms a Freemasons Lodge in the Netherlands
- 1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
- 2002 UN Security Council unanimously approves Resolution 1441 on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”
- 2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia, the first woman to lead an African country
- 2016 Republican Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton with an Electoral College victory of 304-227; Clinton receives just under 2.9 million more popular votes [1]
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- 2017 Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa breaks the world record for surfing the largest wave ever at 24.38 meters in Nazaré, Portugal
Did You Know?
Bodleian Library at Oxford University, founded by Thomas Bodley, formally opens
Fun Fact About November 8
Bourbon whiskey is first distilled from corn by Elijah Craig in Bourbon County, Virginia (modern-day Kentucky)
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