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The Roman Lapis manalis feast on the 8th November
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44606151/mundus-patet-harvest-feast/

T.W. Webb (1807 - 1885) observed a transit of Mercury on 9 November, 1884.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iWkyiEeiyksC&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false



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Little Joe 5 was launched in 1960.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t39226733/little-joe-5/

STS-51-A Space Shuttle Discovery was launched on the 8th November 1984
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-A

The Phobos-Grunt mission was launched on the 8th November 2011
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t8092791/phobos-grunt-mission/



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Robert Esnault-Pelterie (November 8, 1881 - December 6, 1957) was a French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Esnault-Pelterie

Dale Allan Gardner (November 8, 1948 - February 19, 2014) was a NASA astronaut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Gardner

Edward George Gibson (born November 8, 1936) is a former astronaut for NASA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibson

Margaret Rhea Seddon (born November 8, 1947) is a physician and retired NASA astronaut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Rhea_Seddon

Charles Thomas Kowal (November 8, 1940 - November 28, 2011) was an American astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Kowal

Graham E. Bell (8 November 1935) is an American astronomer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_E._Bell

Edmond Halley FRS (8 November 1656 - 14 January 1742) was an English astronomer
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46047862/edmond-halley-1656-1742/

Johannes Robert Rydberg, (November 8, 1854 - December 28, 1919), was a Swedish physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Robert_Rydberg

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848 - 26 July 1925) was a German mathematician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege

Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in Tenochtitlan on November 8, 1519
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t6507435/teotihuacan-pyramid/

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker



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The Bodleian Library was formally re-opened on 8 November 1602
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t39226746/bodleian-library/

The Bubal Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus) is an antelope that became extinct in 1923.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubal_Hartebeest

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the east Belgian city of Liege on the 8th November, 1983
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46047843/liege-earthquake-1983/

The first successful British H-bomb test - Operation Grapple X Round C1 took place on 8 November 1957.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46047865/operation-grapple-x-round-c1-1957/

On 8 November 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen



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Star Trek: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" was aired on November 8, 1968 

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NGC Discovered

NGC 1520 is a magnitude +12.8 asterism discovered by John Herschel on the 8th November 1836. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58960119/ngc-1520/

NGC 4750 is a magnitude +11.2 spiral galaxy located discovered by William Herschel on the 8th November 1798.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58960102/ngc-4750/

NGC 7223 is a magnitude +12.2 barred spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 8th November 1790.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58960074/ngc-7223/

NGC 7248 is a magnitude +12.4 spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 8th November 1790.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58960053/ngc-7248/

NGC 7250 is a magnitude +12.6 spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 8th November 1790.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58960026/ngc-7250/

NGC 7438 is a magnitude +13.3 asterism discovered by John Herschel on the 8th November 1831.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58960017/ngc-7438/



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On November 8, 2011, asteroid 2005 YU55 (at about 400m diameter) passed within 324,600 km (0.85 lunar distances) of Earth.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t31320388/asteroid-2005-yu55/

Gerhard Lohse (1851-1941) discovered the returning comet Tempel-Swift on 8 November 1880.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1880AReg...18..321C

Comet Arend-Roland was discovered on November 8, 1956
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Arend%E2%80%93Roland



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Meteorites

The Wethersfield (L6) meteorite fell in Connecticut, USA, on the 8th November 1982.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t51480032/wethersfield/

The New Halfa (L4) meteorite fell in Ash Sharqiyah, Sudan, on the 8th November 1994.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46047975/new-halfa-meteorite/

The Orlando (Eucrite) meteorite fell in Florida, USA, on the 8th November 2004.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t51479552/orlando-meteorite/



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