1602 – The Bodleian Library, one of Europe's oldest libraries, opened on the grounds of the University of Oxford in England.
1620 – Thirty Years' War: An army of 15,000 Bohemians and mercenaries were routed by 27,000 men of the combined armies of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Catholic League at the Battle of White Mountain near Prague.
1837 – In South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mary Lyon founded a seminary for women that became Mount Holyoke College, the first of the Seven Sisters group of colleges.
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.
November 8: St. Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church)
1576 – The provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands signed the Pacification of Ghent, to make peace with the rebelling provinces Holland and Zeeland, and also to form an alliance to drive the occupying Spanish out of the country.
1861 – American Civil War: The USS San Jacinto stopped the British mailship Trent and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray (example pictured).
1965 – Vietnam War: In one of the earliest battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian attack in the Battle of Gang Toi.
1971 – English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which would go on to be one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
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