This Day In History

November 8th

1880  Actress Sarah Bernhardt made her American stage debut at Booth's Theater in New York City.
1962  Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts wins the US Precidency by a narrow margin

1847  Writer of Dracula Bram Stoker
1656  Astronomer Edmund Halley who first to observed the great comet of 1682 (Halley's Comet)
1921  Actor Gene Saks (actor: A Fine Romance, Prisoner of Second Avenue, A Thousand
1927  Singer Patti Page (born as Clara Ann Fowler)
1931  News Journalist Morley Safer
1948  Singer Minnie Riperton
1949  Singer Bonnie Raitt
1951  TV Host Mary Hart
1952  Playboy Magazine Executive Christie Hefner, also the daughter of founder Hugh
1954  Singer Ricki Lee Jones
1961  Actor Leif Garrett

1960

• Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters

• Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson

• Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles

• Alabam - Cowboy Copas

1968

• Hey Jude - The Beatles

• Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin

• Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots

• Next in Line - Conway Twitty

1976

• Rock'n Me - Steve Miller

• The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

• Love So Right - Bee Gees

• Cherokee Maiden - Merle Haggard

1984

• Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean

• Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution

• Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!

• City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson

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