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1779 - ▼A major eruption from the summit of Mt. Sakurajima. 153 people are killed.
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1835 - ▲Emperor Komei is proclaimed Crown Prince.
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1869 - ▼Empress Shoken departs from Kyoto for the new capital of Tokyo.
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1869 - ▼Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu is released from confinement.
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1869 - ▼A cycle race covering a distance between two cities is held.
(European time November 7, 1869: Japan time November 8, 1869)
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It covers a distance between two cities, Paris and Rouen in France. It is the first cycle race in this kind.
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1869 - ▼(birth) Joseph Franklin Rutherford.
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1969 - ▼The "I Marine Expeditionary Force" is established at Okinawa, Japan.
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The day is the 100 anniversary of Empress Shoken's departure from Kyoto to Tokyo for the new capital.
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2000 - ★Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu is arrested in Osaka.
The chief of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, who leads the arrest operation, is Iwao Uruma. He becomes Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in Aso Cabinet on September 24, 2008.
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2013 - ◆Typhoon Haiyan makes landfall in the Philippines. (timeline)
It is one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record. It causes devastation and, according to estimates, thousands of casualties.
The day is the kanreki 60th birthday of Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke (November 8, 1953 in the Japanese calendar).
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2013 - ◆UNESCO suspends the voting rights of the United States and Israel.
The reason is that both countries refuse to pay their dues as a protest to the membership of the State of Palestine.
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2013 - ◆(death) Chiyoko Shimakura, Japanese singer and actress.
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2016 - ★(plan) "United States presidential election, 2016".
November 8 ⇒Back
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December 4, 794 - ★The Japanese capital is moved to Heian-kyo (
Kyoto, Emperor Kammu).
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December 13, 1553 - ◆(birth) Henry IV of France. (timeline)
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December 22, 1629 - ▼Emperor Go-Mizunoo abdicates.
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December 22, 1629 - ▼Meisho ascends the throne.
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December 6, 1845 - ▲Alpha Sigma Phi is founded at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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December 16, 1855 - ▲(birth) Tojo Hidenori, lieutenant general. The father of Hideki Tojo. 1 2
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December 1, 1859 - ▼Saigo Takamori marries Aikana.
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December 10, 1869 - ▼"Kenkun Shrine" is decided to found by Emperor Meiji. (timeline)
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December 4, 1905 - ★(birth) Emilio Garrastazu Medici、Brazilian president。
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December 13, 1953 - ◆(birth) Ben Bernanke, 14th Chairman of the Federal Reserve. (timeline)
The day is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Henry IV of France (December 13, 1553).
The day is November 8 in the Japanese calendar and is also the 400th anniversary of the birth of Henry IV of France (November 8, 1553 in the Japanese calendar).
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December 4, 1962 - ★(birth) Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer.
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December 13, 1972 - ▲(birth) James Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation.
He is the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
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December 13, 1972 - ▲The third and final "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17 (Apollo program).
Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This is the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.
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December 13, 1972 - ▲Panasonic Corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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December 7, 1978 – ★Masayoshi Ohira is appointed Prime Minister (Japan).
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December 22, 2001 - ◆The Afghan Interim Administration is inaugurated.
Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
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December 22, 2001 - ◆Shoe Bomber Plot Foiled, Bomber Claims Allegiance to Bin Laden.
Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
December 22, 2001 - ◆Battle of Amami-Oshima.
Japan Coast Guard vessels fire at and sink a suspicious North Korean vessel in the East China Sea.
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