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Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 8
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Joe Flynn in Youngstown, Ohio, USA; actor (McHale's Navy).
- 80th: 1944 - 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Germany for forced labor.
- 70th: 1954 - American League approves Philadelphia Athletics' move to Kansas City.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Rickie Lee Jones in Chicago, Illinois, USA; singer ("Chuck E's in Love").
- 50th: 1974 - Death of Ivory Joe Hunter at age 60 of lung cancer; singer/songwriter/pianist ("Since I Met You Baby", "I Almost Lost My Mind", "I Need You So").
- 40th: 1984 - STS 51-A mission launched. Anna Fisher becomes the first "mom" to go into orbit.
- 30th: 1994 - Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections. This is the first time in 40 years that the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.
- 25th: 1999 - The German Gerichtshof (supreme court) sentences Egon Krenz, former East German political leader, to prison for his role in the killing of East Germans seeking to flee the country.
- 20th: 2004 - Microsoft agrees to pay US$536 million to Novell to settle legal claims related to Novell's NetWare operating system.
- 15th: 2009 - In Valencia, Spain, round 17 of the FIM MotoGP Championship is won by Dani Pedrosa.
- 15th: 2009 - The FIM MotoGP Championship is won by Valentino Rossi.
- 15th: 2009 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (Soviet atomic bomb project, 2003 Nobel Prize for physics of superconductors), dies in Moscow, Russia, after a long illness at age 93.
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