Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 November 8

Paul Nahaolelua

• ... that
  kings of Hawaii
  ?
• ... that the author of Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future argues we are living in a golden age?
• ... that Gertrude Foster Brown encouraged New York women to exercise their new right to vote in her 1918 book Your Vote and How to Use It?
• ... that although the black grasswren was discovered in 1901, its nesting habits remained unknown for nearly one hundred years?
• ... that Christiana Willes is sometimes incorrectly attributed as the founder of roundarm bowling?
• ... that in 1972, Idi Amin expelled Hindus and other Asians from Uganda after he said God told him to do so in a dream?
• ... that Māori tribal leader and baptized Mormon Mere Mete Whaanga and her sister-in-law made quite a spectacle on the streets of Salt Lake City sporting traditional facial tattoos?
• ... that Rhodesian athletes were permitted to attend their events at the 1972 Summer Olympics, but not participate in them?

Ben Zobrist

• In baseball, the Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians to win the World Series for the first time since 1908 (MVP Ben Zobrist pictured).
• In baseball, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters defeat the Hiroshima Toyo Carp to win the Japan Series.
• Lamiya Aji Bashar win the Sakharov Prize
  .
• More than 60 people are killed in an attack on a police training centre in Quetta, Pakistan.
• At least 70 people are killed and around 600 others injured in a train derailment in Cameroon.

November 8:

X-ray of the hand of W. Röntgen's wife

• 1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of Vietnam's Trần dynasty, took up the post of Retired Emperor, but continued to co-rule with his son Trần Khâm for eleven more years.
• 1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
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• Reconstruction
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• 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing at least eleven people and injuring sixty-three others.