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Friday, 7 November 2014
On this day... November 8:
On this day...
November 8
:
St. Demetrius' Day
(
Coptic Church
and
Serbian Orthodox Church
)
1576
– The provinces of the
Habsburg Netherlands
signed the
Pacification of Ghent
, to make peace with the rebelling provinces
Holland
and
Zeeland
, and also to form an alliance to drive the occupying Spanish out of the country.
1644
– The
Shunzhi Emperor
(pictured)
, the third emperor of the
Qing dynasty
, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the
Ming dynasty
as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
1861
–
American Civil War
: The
USS
San Jacinto
stopped the British mailship
Trent
and arrested two
Confederate
envoys en route to Europe, sparking
a major diplomatic crisis
between the United Kingdom and the United States.
1965
– American journalist
Dorothy Kilgallen
was found dead in her
New York City
townhouse, in what was rumored to be a murder because of information she had regarding controversial stories such as the
John F. Kennedy assassination
.
1987
– A
Provisional Irish Republican Army
bomb
exploded
during a
Remembrance Sunday
ceremony in
Enniskillen
, Northern Ireland, killing at least eleven people and injuring sixty-three others.
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