November 8 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for November 8
In the headlines today:

2016	Millionaire businessman Donald Trump stuns pundits by being named as the 45th president-elect of the United States.
2004	Singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris receives the ASCAP "Founders Award" at the 42nd annual ASCAP Country Music Awards in Nashville.
1993	Thieves steal five Picasso paintings and other artwork valued at over $52 million from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.
1988	Incumbent vice president George Bush is elected US president over Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis.
1966	Movie star Ronald Reagan is elected governor of California. (photo credit: NARA)
1960	Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy is elected US president, defeating incumbent vice president Richard Nixon. (photo credit: NARA)
1950	In the first jet plane battle of the Korean War, US Air Force Lt. Russel J. Brown shoots down a North Korean MiG-15.
1942	Operation Torch begins as US and British forces land in French North Africa, during WWII.
1933	President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the Civil Works Administration to find work for millions of unemployed Americans.
1932	New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected US president over incumbent President Herbert Hoover.
1923	Adolf Hitler launches a failed coup in Munich, later known as the "Beer Hall Putsch".
1910	Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy dies.
1837	Mount Holyoke Female Seminary opens in Massachusetts.
1889	Montana becomes the 41st state to join the US.
1793	The Louvre Museum opens in Paris.
1725	The New York Gazette newspaper begins weekly publication.
1519	The Spanish explorer Cortez enters Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital.
641	Alexandria, Egypt, falls to the Muslims.