A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 8th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 8, 1520, the Stockholm Bloodbath began, an event that followed the successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces and resulted in the execution of around 100 people. On November 8, 1837, Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later became Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. On November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen (or Röntgen) discovered what…
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A Brief History On November 8, 1965, a North Vietnamese force of 1,200 soldiers ambushed 400 of the US Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade West of the Dong Nai River and paid dearly for their disregard of American military prowess. Digging Deeper In a search and destroy mission called Operation Hump, the US Army was roaming South Vietnam hoping to find and engage North Vietnamese forces to force a battle that would diminish the Communist forces. As often happened during the US war in Vietnam, it was the Vietnamese that found the Americans first and initiated contact. Although the outnumbered American…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 7th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 7, 921, the Treaty of Bonn was signed by two Frankish kings, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler. On November 7, 1492, the same year that Christopher Columbus made his epic voyage to the New World, a large meteor fell on the town of Ensisheim, Alsace, Austria, in what is now France. On November 7, 1775, in an announcement…
A Brief History On November 7, 1983, the United States Capitol building was bombed by a female left wing group calling themselves the Armed Resistance Unit. Digging Deeper No people were injured or killed in this act of terror, an act mirrored by bombings by the same group at Fort Lesley J. McNair and the Washington Navy Yard, both in Washington, D.C., although on different days. The point of contention of the radical group was the US involvement in the invasion of Grenada and US military occupation in Lebanon. The group also planned to murder Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 6th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 6, 963, Holy Roman Emperor Otto I called a council in Rome to depose the current Pope, John XII, on charges of leading an armed rebellion against Otto, as well as conducting his secular affairs in a corrupt and immoral manner. On November 6, 1632 at the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years’ War, the Swedes won, but their…