November 2008

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1 Nov 2008 - India's first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, transmitted two pictures of the Earth while en route to the Moon.

6 Nov 2008 - Tropical Storm Paloma, the 16th named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, formed off the coast of Nicaragua with the potential to become a hurricane within 24 hours.

7 Nov 2008 - Hurricane Paloma strengthened to Category 2 strength as it lashed the Cayman Islands.

8 Nov 2008 - Hurricane Paloma reached Category 4 strength near the Cayman Islands, with winds up to 140 mph (225 kph)

13 Nov 2008 - Three planets orbiting HR 8799 and one planet orbiting Fomalhaut were visually verified by telescopes, the first extrasolar planets whose existence have been confirmed via direct imaging.

Culture

2 Nov 2008 - Lewis Hamilton won the 2008 Formula One Drivers' Championship, beating Felipe Massa by one point to become the youngest and first black Formula One World Champion in history.

2 Nov 2008 - Sébastien Loeb of Citroën became the first World Rally Championship driver to become World Champion for the fifth consecutive time.

5 Nov 2008 - India's Gagan Narang won a gold medal in the men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 ISSF World Cup Final, breaking the world record.

10 Nov 2008 - India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by defeating Australia 2-0 in the five-Test-match cricket series.

11 Nov 2008 - Peter Eastgate of Denmark wins the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, the $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, winning over US$9.1 million.

11 Nov 2008 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 set sail on her final voyage before she is refurbished and turned into a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

16 Nov 2008 - Jimmie Johnson wins NASCAR's 2008 Sprint Cup Series championship, becoming the second driver to win three in a row.

Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technology, and otehr artifacts can be considered. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy can be connected. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be connected.

Institutions

3 Nov 2008 - A report issued by an independent investigator hired by the Alaska Personnel Board found that Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin did not violate the law with regards to the so called "Troopergate scandal". However, a previous, separate legislative investigation concluded that she did abuse her office.

4 Nov 2008 - United States general elections: Democrat Barack Obama won the 2008 United States presidential election after beating Republican John McCain, becoming the first African American to be elected to the office of President of the United States.

4 Nov 2008 - The Democratic Party picked up at least five seats in the Senate and retained control of the House of Representatives.

5 Nov 2008 - California Proposition 8, a referendum that amended the State Constitution, passed and defined marriage as being between a man and a woman, thus ending same-sex marriage in California.

7 Nov 2008 - Unemployment in the United States reached its highest rate in 14 years.

8 Nov 2008 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with African leaders to discuss resolutions to the ongoing Kivu conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

10 Nov 2008 - Global financial crisis of 2008: The United States government announced a second bailout of American International Group; the total value of the new plan, roughly US$150 billion, represents the largest government support package extended to a private company in US history. American retail chain Circuit City filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority announced that it was revoking the banking licence of the struggling Carnegie Investment Bank. Stocks gained worldwide after China announces a stimulus package involving US$586 billion to finance programs in 10 major domestic areas in the next two years.

10 Nov 2008 - Reports surfaced that a United States nuclear weapon was lost somewhere in the ice after the January 21, 1968 crash of a B-52 Stratofortress outside Thule Air Base, Greenland.

11 Nov 2008 - A Holocaust survivor group announced the abandonment of negotiations with the Mormon church over the latter's continued posthumous baptism of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

14 Nov 2008 - General Ann E. Dunwoody becamee the first female four-star general in the history of the United States Army.

14 Nov 2008 - The Montecito Tea Fire in California burned 2,500 acres and damaged more than 100 homes and the campus of Westmont College.

14 Nov 2008 On STS-126, the Space Shuttle Endeavour was to use the MPLM Leonardo to deliver experiment and storage racks to the International Space Station. [The launch was delayed for a day]

15 Nov 2008 - Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched in mission STS-126 to increase the crew capacity of the International Space Station to six members. (CNN)

Family including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families can be connected. Education including researth, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools can be connected. Economics including economic activities, industries, and economic systems can be connected. Government including can be examined. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial structure, legislative structure, executive structure, heads of state, and forms of government can be connected. Government activity including succession, administration, and state relations can be connected. Particular governments including local government, national government, and international government can be connected. Religion including religious beliefs, religious practice, and religious organization can be considered. Religious traditions including Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism can be considered.

Sociology

Social structure and change

Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be connected. Social types including hinting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societes, and industrial societies can be considered. Social change including factors of social change, processes of social change, and particular changes can be connected.

Communities including Seoul, Mexico City, Delhi , Bombay, New York City, Sao Paolo, and Manila can be connected.

Peoples of the world can be connected.

Nations including the Vietnam, Germany, Egypt, and Ethiopia can be connected.

1 Nov 2008 - Floods killed 24 people in Vietnam including 11 in the central province of Nghe An.

11 Nov 2008 - Germany announced new charges against John Demjanjuk in the deaths of 29,000 people at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland during the Holocaust.

Western Civilization can be considered.

Mexico

4 Nov 2008 - Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño died along with at least 12 others after the airplane he was on crashed into rush-hour Mexico City traffic.

14 Nov 2008 - An investigation concluded that wake turbulence was the most likely cause of the November 4, 2008 airplane crash in Mexico City that killed, among others, Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño and José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos.

Among Anglic peoples, the United States has numerous important events.

On Nov. 3, a report issued by independent investigator hired by the Alaska Personnel Board found that Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin did not violate the law with regards to the so called "Troopergate scandal", in contradiction to an earlier report by the state Legislature. In the general election on Nov 3, Democrat Barak Obama defeated Republican John McCain, becoming the first black man to be elected President of the United States. In the Congressional elections, The Democratic Party picked up at least five seats in the Senate and retained control of the House of Representatives. In California, Proposition 8, a referendum that amended the State Constitution to define marrage as being between a man and a woman, was passed by voters, thus ending same-sex marriage in California. On Nov. 7, it was reported that unemployment in the United States had reached its highest rate in 14 years.

On 10 Nov, reports surfaced that a United States nuclear weapon had been lost somewhere in the ice after the January 21, 1968 crash of a B-52 Stratofortress outside Thule Air Base, Greenland. On Nov 14, General Ann E. Dunwoody becamee the first female four-star general in the history of the United States Army. That same day, it was reported that the Montecito Tea Fire in California had burned 2,500 acres and damaged more than 100 homes and the campus of Westmont College. On Nov 15, the Space Shuttle Endeavor on misson STS - 126 was launched to use the MPLM Leonardo to deliver experiment and storage racks to the International Space Station, which was to increase the crew capacity of the station to 6 members.

16 Nov 2008 - Jimmie Johnson wins NASCAR's 2008 Sprint Cup Series championship, becoming the second driver to win three in a row.

16 Nov 2008 - United States President-elect Barack Obama resigned his Senate seat.

Among Latin peoples, In Brazil

3 Nov 2008 - Itaú and Unibanco announced they would merge their banking, credit, and insurance operations, creating the largest financial services group in Brazil and the Southern Hemisphere.

Northeast European peoples. Russia

5 Nov 2008 - In his State of the Nation address, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced a proposal to extend the presidential term from four years to six.

5 Nov 2008 - President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev announces that his country would place short-range conventional warhead missiles in Kaliningrad in order to counter United States missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, however, he expressed hope that Russia–United States relations would be mended with the presidency of Barack Obama.

6 Nov 2008 - According to officials, an explosion killed at least 11 people aboard a minibus in the North Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz, Russia.

9 Nov 2008 - An accident aboard K-152 Nerpa, a nuclear-powered Russian Navy submarine doing a test run in the Sea of Japan, killed more than 20 people.

11 Nov 2008 - 2008 Russian financial crisis: Russian regulators halted trading on one of the country's two main stock indexes, the MICEX, after it fell 6.5%, dragged down by commodity and banking shares.

12 Nov 2008 - 2008 Russian financial crisis: Russia's two main stock exchanges were suspended for one hour after the market opened with a more than 10% decline in response to trends on global markets and falling oil prices. Trade in Russian shares has been shifting to London traded Global Depositary Receipts during frequent suspensions in Moscow, dictated by rules imposed by the regulator to reduce volatility on Moscow increasingly illiquid stock market.

13 Nov 2008 - 2008 Russian financial crisis: The MICEX stock exchange fell 5% as trade resumes after a one-day limit-down halt.

13 Nov 2008 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin questioned the commitment of the European Union to the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline to establish a natural gas delivery network from his country to Germany. A European Commission spokesman responded, "The EU continues to strongly support the Nord Stream pipeline".

Asiatic peoples can be connected.

Philippines

1 Nov 2008 - Nineteen Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels were killed by Filipino military air strikes in the southern part of the island of Mindanao.

Asiatic cities such as Tokyo can be connected.

Among South Asian peoples,

India can be examined.

11 Nov 2008 - The Indian Navy foiled an attempt by Somali pirates to hijack a merchant ship in Gulf of Aden.

12 Nov 2008 - India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar exploration mission successfully completed its journey to the Moon, entering its intended operational orbit 100 kilometers (62 mi) above the surface.

13 Nov 2008 - India successfully test fired the first Sagarika submarine-launched ballistic missile from a land-based launcher.

14 Nov 2008 - India's Chandrayaan-1 unmanned lunar exploration mission successfully landed the Moon Impact Probe on the south pole of the Moon.

Pakistan

1 Nov 2008 - A strong aftershock measuring 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale hit southwestern Pakistan three days after it was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake.

Bangladesh

3 Nov 2008 - The Bangladeshi government scheduled general elections on December 18, 2008, which would end the rule of the one and half year military-backed interim government.

Among Oriental peoples

Japan can be connected.

Events of China are significant.

3 Nov 2008 - ARATS president Chen Yunlin, the official delegation of the People's Republic of China, arrived in Taiwan for talks with SEF chairman Chiang Pin-kung.

4 Nov 2008 - The Straits Exchange Foundation and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits signed four agreements for the Three Links across the Taiwan Strait, a major step in normalizing Cross-Strait relations.

9 Nov 2008 - A anti-police riot in Shenzhen, China involving 400 people, took place after a police official threw a walkie-talkie at a motorcyclist causing his death.

10 Nov 2008 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on Richter scale shook western China's Qinghai province.

Among Southeast Asian peoples, Indonesia can be connected.

9 Nov 2008 - Huda bin Abdul Haq, Imam Samudra, and Amrozi bin Nurhasyim were executed by firing squad on Kambangan Island in Indonesia for their involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings.

African peoples including Nigeria can be connected.

American Indian peoples such as are found in Mexico are less directly significant. South American Indians found in Brazil are scarcely noted. North American Indians found in the United States are scarcely noted.

Other history

This is only weakly connected to earlier periods of history through classical and medieval times. It is also weakly connected to modern history through the 19th century. It is somewhat weakly connected to the 20th century through the late 20th century. It is preceded by the early 2000s, and in the late 2000s, directly by 2007. It is preceded by the third quarter 2008. It is preceded by October 2008.

It is also connected to the future, and most directly to the near future, including next month including the remainder of November 2008 and December 2008; next quarter, and next year. Connections to the middle future and far future are obscure.