Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 8th!
| 1793 | The Louvre opens in Paris.  |
| 1861 | Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent. |
| 1864 | President Abraham Lincoln is re-elected in the first wartime election in the United States. |
| 1887 | Doc Holliday, who fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 6 years earlier, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. |
