Today in History for November 2008
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Historical Events
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4th - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States
11th - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) set sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
20th - After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
22nd - YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.
25th - A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three people and injures one.
26th - Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 21 of 21
1st - Nathaniel Mayer, American soul musician (b. 1944)
1st - Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)
1st - Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (b. 1922)
1st - Shakir Stewart, American music producer (b. 1974)
4th - Michael Crichton, American author (b. 1942)
4th - Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1971)
10th - Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
11th - Herb Score, American baseball player (b. 1933)
12th - Catherine Baker Knoll, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, (b. 1930)
12th - Mitch Mitchell, English musician (b. 1947)
16th - Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)
17th - Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
17th - George Stephen Morrison, American admiral and father of The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison
20th - Sven Inge, Swedish painter and modern artist (b. 1935)
22nd - MC Breed, American hip hop artist (b. 1971)
24th - Cecil H. Underwood, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1922)
24th - Kenny MacLean, Scottish musician (Platinum Blonde) (b. 1956)
26th - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (b. 1893)
26th - De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (b. 1979)
29th - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918)
30th - Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (Loudness) (b. 1958)
