Today in History
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1972 Home Box Office launched
The premium TV channel, informally known as HBO, is the oldest paid TV channel in the United States.
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1971 Coup in Thailand
Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn staged a coup against his own government and dismissed the parliam
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1939 Assassination attempt on Hitler
Johann Georg Elser, a German woodworker, attempted to kill Adolf Hilter and other high ranking membe
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1923 Beer Hall Putsch
On this day, Adolf Hitler and other members of the Nazi party attempted to overthrow current governm
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1895 First person to observe X-rays
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays, also sometimes called Röntge
Births On This Day,
November, 8
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1986 Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer, activist
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1966 Gordon Ramsay
Scottish chef, television host
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1961 Micky Adams
English footballer, manager
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1927 Nguyen Khanh
Vietnamese general, politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam
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1900 Margaret Mitchell
American author
Deaths On This Day,
November, 8
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1986 Vyacheslav Molotov
Soviet politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs fr the Soviet Union
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1965 Dorothy Kilgallen
American journalist
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1953 Ivan Bunin
Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate
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1887 Doc Holliday
American gambler, dentist
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1674 John Milton
English poet
