Friday, November 8, 1996
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Today's Events
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The Space Shuttle Columbia is scheduled to lift off from
the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a 16-day mission.
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, athlete Carl
Lewis and former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez are
scheduled to collect prizes for the "Principe de Asturias" in
Oviedo, Spain.
The Swedish postage stamp called the "Treskilling
Yellow" and billed as the most valuable in the world is
scheduled to be publicly auctioned in Zurich.
The Baseball Writers Association of America is scheduled
to announce the National League Manager of the Year.
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On the horizon
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On Saturday, November 9, the Lord Mayor's Show, a
colorful parade in London, is scheduled to take place to mark
the inauguration of the new lord mayor.
On Sunday, November 10, Tunisia is scheduled to hold its
annual Tree Festival, a national agricultural event.
On Monday, November 11, European Union finance ministers
are scheduled to meet in Brussels.
On Tuesday, November 12, the Goncourt Prize, France's top
literary award, is scheduled to be announced.
On Wednesday, November 13, the U.N. Food and Agriculture
Organization's World Food Summit is scheduled to open in
Rome.
On Thursday, November 14, the European Ostrich
Association (EOA) holds its world congress in Nehgelo,
Netherlands.
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On this day
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In 1520, King Christian II ordered the massacre of Swedish
bishops and nobles in what became known as the "Stockholm
Bloodbath," helping to incite a Swedish war of liberation
against Danish rule.
In 1576, under the Pacification of Ghent, all 17 provinces of
the Netherlands were united against Spain in the Dutch War of
Liberation.
In 1674, English poet John Milton died. His best-known works
were the epic poems "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained,"
both written after he went blind in 1652.
In 1830, Ferdinand II became King of the Two Sicilies.
In 1847, Bram Stoker, Irish author best known for his popular
horror tale "Dracula," was born.
In 1889, Montana became the 41st U.S. state.
In 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen, at the University of Wuerzburg,
Germany, discovered electro-magnetic rays, which he called
X-rays.
In 1900, Margaret Mitchell was born. U.S. novelist who wrote
the bestseller "Gone with the Wind," which was turned into an
Oscar-winning film in 1939.
In 1917, in Russia, the Council of People's Commissars was
established as the new government of Russia, and it named
Lenin as chairman, Trotsky as foreign commissar and Stalin as
commissar of nationalities.
In 1923, Adolf Hitler attempted to start a putsch in Munich's
largest beer hall but was arrested two days later.
In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected U.S. president.
Re-elected three times, he was to remain in power until his
death in 1945.
In 1933, Nadir Shah, ruler of Afghanistan, was assassinated
and succeeded by his son, Mohammed Zahir Shah.
In 1939, seven people were killed when a bomb exploded in the
Buergerbraukeller in Munich just after Hitler had delivered a
speech on the occasion of the celebration of the abortive
1923 putsch.
In 1942, Allied forces began landings in North Africa,
beginning the Algeria-Morocco Campaign of World War II.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected U.S. president, with
Lyndon Johnson as his vice president.
In 1972, West and East Germany ended 23 years of Cold War
antagonism by initialing a good-neighbor treaty which pledged
mutual respect for the existence of two sovereign German
states.
In 1987, eleven people were killed when a bomb ripped through
a crowd gathered for a Remembrance Day service at a war
memorial in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
In 1988, George Bush won the U.S. presidential election,
defeating Michael Dukakis.
In 1989, Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia, the
first black to become a U.S. state governor.
In 1989, a new Politburo took office in East Germany with the
mission of shoring up communist authority crumbling before a
mass exodus to the West. A Central Committee meeting earlier
in the day unanimously accepted the resignation of the
outgoing Politburo, overwhelmed by a tide of "people power."
In 1994, the U.N. Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal held its
first public hearing, paving the way for Bosnian Serb Dusan
Tadic to become the first suspect to stand trial.
In 1995, Colin Powell took himself out of the 1996 U.S.
presidential race, saying he lacked a passion for politics.
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Newslink
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Today is the birth anniversary of Margaret Mitchell, author
of "Gone with the Wind," the best-selling novel in U.S.
history. Mitchell published the epic novel in 1936 and won
the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1937. To learn more about
her novel, birthplace and life history, click here.
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Holidays and more
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Today is the Anniversary of the Great October Socialist
Revolution in the Ukraine.
It's Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day.
Television host Mary Hart is 45.
Actress June Havoc is 80.
Business executive Christie Hefner is 44.
Singer Ricki Lee Jones is 42.
Singer Bonnie Raitt is 47.
Journalist Morley Safer is 65.
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Sources: Associated Press,
Chase's Calendar of Events 1996, J.P. Morgan
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