Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 8

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 * 960 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Having been the target of many raids by the Emirate of Aleppo, Byzantine forces led by Leo Phokas the Younger ambushed the Hamdanids and annihilated their army.
 * 1291 – A law was passed that confined most of Venice's glassmaking industry to nearby Murano.
 * 1520 – Following a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under Christian II, scores of Swedish leaders in Stockholm were imprisoned and later executed despite Christian's promise of general amnesty.
 * 1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor (portrait shown), the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
 * 1932 – The Australian military withdrew from their "war against emus" in Western Australia, due to negative press coverage of the operation.
 * 1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians at the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
 * 1965 – Vietnam War: In the Battle of Gang Toi, one of the earliest battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian attack.
 * 1966 – Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
 * 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 12 people and injuring 63 others.
 * 2006 – Israeli artillery shelled a row of houses in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, killing at least 19 Palestinians and wounding more than 40 others.
 * Born/died: | Lettice Knollys |b|1543| Nyaungyan Min |b|1555| Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy |d|1605| Thomas Bewick |d|1828| James A. Doonan |b|1841|  J. Havens Richards |b|1851| John Mercer Johnson |d|1868|  Hermann Rorschach |b|1884|  Stylianos Pattakos |b|1912| Kamal Ranadive |b|1917| Des Corcoran  |b|1928| Rhea Seddon |b|1947 |  Johannes Latuharhary  |d|1959 Subroto Mukerjee |d|1960 | Dorothy Kilgallen |d|1965| Tom Anderson |b|1970