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Sunday, 08 November 2026

2004

War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

2003

The Harris Theater opens, commencing a renaissance in the Chicago performing arts community.

2002

Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441

1987

Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

1977

Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.

1976

A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.

1973

The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.

1966

Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

1965

The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.

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