Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 8

November 8: St. Demetrius' Day in Republika Srpska

• 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlan where Aztec tlatoani Moctezuma II welcomed him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.

• 1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath: Following a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under Christian II of Denmark, scores of Swedish leaders were executed despite Christian's promise of general amnesty.

• 1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (pictured) produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range that is known today as X-rays.

• 1923 – Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other members of the Kampfbund started the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to seize power in Germany.

• 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing at least eleven people and injuring sixty-three others.

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