1910<\/strong> – William H. Frost patented the insect exterminator.<\/p>\n 1923<\/strong> – 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.”<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The Civil Works Administration was created by executive order by\u00a0U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed people in the\u00a0U.S.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – “Life With Father” premiered on Broadway in New York City.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0invaded Morocco and Algeria.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – During World War II, Operation Torch began as\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and British forces landed in French North Africa.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – During the Korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – The American League approved the transfer of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team to Kansas City,\u00a0MO.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided to name their new car the “Edsel,” after Henry Ford’s only son.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – Elgin Baylor (Minneapolis Lakers) scored 64 points and set a National Basketball Association scoring record.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – The soap opera “Days of Our Lives” debuted on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – Edward W. Brooke of\u00a0Massachusetts\u00a0became the first African-American elected to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate by popular vote.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – Ronald Reagan was elected governor of\u00a0California.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> – The program, “The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage”, premiered on ABC-TV. The show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved into “Nightline” in March of 1980.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Mac Mathias (R-MD) introduced legislation to provide a site on the National Mall for the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in\u00a0California\u00a0announced that they had discovered a 15th moon orbiting the planet Saturn.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek asserted that Egypt was “an African State” that was “neither East nor West”.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. Bush\u00a0ordered more troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national force fighting against Iraq.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The European Community and Canada imposed economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – About 350,000 people rallied in Berlin against racist violence.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Five Picasso paintings and other artwork were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. The works were valued at $52 million.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – In\u00a0Florida, a statewide recount began to decide the winner of the 2000\u00a0U.S.\u00a0presidential election.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report that absolved the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – The “Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend” exhibit opened at the Appleton Museum of Art in Florida.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – The game\u00a0Angry Birds Star Wars\u00a0was released.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0potentially hazardous asteroid\u00a02005 YU55\u00a0passes 0.85\u00a0lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometers or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness\u00a0since\u00a02010 XC15<\/span>\u00a0in 1976.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Typhoon Haiyan, one of the\u00a0strongest tropical cyclones\u00a0ever recorded, strikes the\u00a0Visayas\u00a0region of the\u00a0Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013\u00a0USD) in damage.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Indian Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi of the BJP party-led NDA government, publicly announced the withdrawal\u00a0of\u00a0\u20b9500 and\u00a0\u20b91000 denomination banknotes only a few hours before the implementation\/imposition of\u00a0diktat, i.e. from midnight, starting of November 9 (9-11 as per Indian date recordings), from the Indian economy, without popular consent, rendering 86% of Indian currency in circulation invalid.<\/p>\n History of 08 November 1910 – William H. 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