Important Events From This day in History – 8th November

Today in History

• 1972 Home Box Office launched

  The premium TV channel, colloquially known as HBO, is the country’s first paid television service. Sometimes a Great Notion, a film starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda, was the channel’s first broadcast.

• 1971 Coup in Thailand

  Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn led a coup against his own government and dismissed parliament, citing growing communist influence.

• 1939 Assassination attempt on Hitler

  During the 16th anniversary observances of the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed coup attempt by Hitler in 1923, Johann Georg Elser, a German woodworker, attempted to kill Adolf Hilter and other high-ranking members of the Nazi party. Elser’s time bomb detonated in a Munich beer hall called Bürgerbräukeller but failed to kill Hitler. Elser was apprehended and imprisoned in Dachau for five years.

• 1923 Beer Hall Putsch

  On this day, Adolf Hitler and other Nazi party members marched to Berlin in an attempt to overthrow the current government. The march began at the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich. The coup attempt failed, and Hitler was apprehended and imprisoned for two years.

• 1895 First person to observe X-rays

  While working on cathode rays, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen invented X-rays, also known as Röntgen rays. X-rays are a type of electromagnetic radiation that is commonly used in medicine today. In 1901, Röntgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery.