November 8thNovember 8th is 'The Feast of the Four Crowned Ones', still marked by some English freemasons. It commemorates four masons martyred by Emperor Diocletian for refusing to sculpt a pagan god.
1602 The Bodleian Library at Oxford University was opened to the public. It is second in size to the British Library.
1605 Robert Catesby, the ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, was killed by gunshot, along with other conspirators at Holbeche House, on the border of Staffordshire. He was buried close by but the bodies of Catesby and fellow conspirator Percy were exhumed and decapitated and Catesby's head was placed on the side of the Parliament House.
On November 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler led an attempted coup known as the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Germany. Hitler and his Nazi followers sought to overthrow the Weimar Republic and seize control of the Bavarian government.
They stormed a meeting at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall, where they declared a national revolution and tried to gain the support of local military and political leaders. The coup failed the following day when the police confronted the Nazis, resulting in a brief but deadly skirmish.
Hitler was arrested and sentenced to prison, where he wrote “Mein Kampf.” Although the putsch was unsuccessful, it significantly boosted Hitler’s profile and laid the groundwork for his eventual rise to power.
1920 Rupert Bear made his first appearance in the Daily Express. Rupert Bear Annuals
have been produced since 1936 and are still in production today. The Rupert Annual is still one of the top three Annual titles sold worldwide.
1967 BBC Radio Leicester becomes the first BBC local radio station.
Munich, November 8-9, 1923.