TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2018

On this day in history:

1793 - The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time.

1824 - Explorers Hume and Hovell become the first Europeans to sight the Australian Alps.

1836 - The printing press which is to print South Australia’s proclamation as a British province arrives in the colony.

1923 - Adolf Hitler made his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch” .

1939 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt.

1942 - During World War II, Operation Torch began as US and British forces landed in French North Africa.

1981 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek asserted that Egypt was “an African State” that was “neither East nor West”.

1985 - A letter signed by four American hostages in Lebanon was delivered to The Associated Press in Beirut. The letter, contained pleas from Terry Anderson, Rev. Lawrence Jenco, David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland to President Reagan to negotiate a release.

1991 - The European Community and Canada imposed economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war.

1992 - About 350,000 people rallied in Berlin against racist violence.

1993 - Five Picasso paintings and other artwork were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. The works were valued at $52 million.

1997 - Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.

Birthdays

Edmond Halley 1656 Astronomer, mathematician Bram Stoker 1847 Margaret Mitchell 1900 Norman Lloyd 1914

June Havoc 1916

Gene Saks 1921

Dr. Christian Barnard 1922 Jack S. Kilby 1923

Joe Flynn 1924

Patti Page 1927

Chris Connor 1927