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November 8

4 sourced moments from November 8 in history: Did Moctezuma think Cortés was a god? The 1519 meeting; Röntgen stumbled on X-rays in 1895, then tested them 7 weeks; The Beer Hall Putsch ended in a gunfight, not a beer hall (1923), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on November 8

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1965 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

Britain Abolished the Death Penalty for Murder

On a single day in 1965, the gallows fell silent for murderers across Great Britain after centuries of judicial hanging.

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1923 History · Modern

The Beer Hall Putsch ended in a gunfight, not a beer hall

Hitler's 1923 coup began with a pistol shot in a Munich beer hall but died the next day in a police volley at the Odeonsplatz.

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1895 Science · Physics

Röntgen stumbled on X-rays in 1895, then tested them 7 weeks

A stray glow in a darkened Würzburg lab on 8 November 1895 was an accident; the seven weeks of secret experiments that followed were not.

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1519 History · Empires & Civilizations

Did Moctezuma think Cortés was a god? The 1519 meeting

Cortés and Moctezuma met on 8 November 1519. Most of what we 'know' about that day comes from Cortés — or was invented decades later.

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