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On this day, 08 Nov....
1793 - The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time.
1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen first observed X-rays during an experiment at Würzburg University. On 5 Jan 1896, Die Presse published the news in a front-page article which described his investigations and suggested new methods of medical diagnoses might be made with this new kind of radiation.
1910 - William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer. (The invention used a number of electrically energized parallel wires such that a flying insect passing between them would complete the circuit by bridging the wires with its body and electrocute the insect).
1923 - Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich. {It was a failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler to seize power. About two thousand men marched to the centre of Munich, where they confronted the police, which resulted in the death of 16 Nazis and four policemen. Hitler himself was wounded. After two days, Hitler was arrested and charged with treason, found guilty, jailed for five years but was released after nine months. The most significant outcome of the putsch was a realisation by Hitler that the path to power was through legitimate means; revolution and anarchy was not the route to power. He decided to place an increasing reliance on the development and furthering of Nazi propaganda. (Germans are famous beer drinkers and there are as many as seven beer halls in Munich where they brew their own beer)}.
1939 - Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Munich. (Johann Georg Elser, a German worker, planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. A time bomb that Elser constructed and placed near the speaking platform failed to kill Hitler but killed eight people and injured over sixty two others. Elser was held as a prisoner for over five years and then executed).
1950 - First jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War. (It was the first time US jet aircraft F-86 Sabre took control of the skies, as American fighter pilots bested Soviet-built MiG-15 fighters in combat against aircraft, Soviet tactics, and, on some occasions, Soviet pilots. US Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15).
2000 - India wins the men's team title in the World Carrom championship in New Delhi.
2014 - Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War.
Born....
1922 - Christiaan Neethling Barnard. (He was a South African surgeon who performed the world's first human heart transplant operation. In a five-hour operation on 3 Dec 1967, Barnard successfully replaced the diseased heart of Louis Washkansky (55) with a healthy heart from Denise Darvall, a woman in her mid-20s with the same blood type, who died in hospital after an automobile accident. Rheumatoid arthritis and advancing stiffness in his hands forced Barnard's retirement from surgery in 1983).
1927 - Lal Krishna Advani, politician.
RIP....
1661 - Guru Har Rai passed away. Second son Har Kishan became the eighth Sikh Guru at age of 5 years 4 Months.
1960 - Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee. (He was the first Chief of the Indian Air Force and has been called the "Father of the Indian Air Force". He died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines, which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan).
Titbits....
1956 - After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided to name their new car the "Edsel," after Henry Ford's only son.
2009 - The game Angry Birds Star Wars was released.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Lt Gen Raj Kadyan
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