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In November 1908, the Oregon Electric Railway ( OE ) began serving the city, and in January 1914, competitor Southern Pacific ( SP ) followed suit, opening its own line, separate from OE's.
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November and 1908
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On 15 November 1908 King Léopold II of Belgium formally relinquished personal control of the Congo Free State.
On 9 November 1908 she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England.
Mrs Garrett Anderson: first English woman physician ; mayor of Aldeburgh, November 1908
Eve Arden ( April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990 ) was an American actress.
On November 30, 1860, Agassiz's daughter Pauline was married to Quincy Adams Shaw ( 1825 – 1908 ), a wealthy Boston merchant and later benefactor to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Before her death, on November 15, 1908, she allegedly ordered her trusted eunuchs to poison the Guangxu Emperor.
On November 15, 1908 the Belgian parliament annexed the colony, the reign of Leopold II over Congo being discredited.
* November 9 – Giovanni Leone, former Prime Minister of Italy ( b. 1908 )
* November 21 – Quentin Crisp, English writer ( b. 1908 )
* November 1 – Hugo Distler, German composer ( b. 1908 )
* November 14 – Virginia Cherrill, American actress ( b. 1908 )
* November 28 – Henry Lomb, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb ( d. 1908 )
* November 6 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author ( d. 1908 )
* November 12 – Dorothy Round Little, English tennis champion ( b. 1908 )
* November 29 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete ( b. 1908 )
* November 27 – Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician, former President of the Government ( b. 1908 )
* November 27 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster ( b. 1908 )
* November 30 – Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix ( b. 1908 )
* November 29 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China ( d. 1908 )
* Ernestine Gilbreth ( April 4, 1908 – November 4, 2006 ) ( age 98 ); married Charles E. Carey ; two children ( Charles E. Carey, Lillian Barley ).
The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908.
Richard Nathaniel Wright ( September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960 ) was an African-American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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November and Oregon
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On 27 November 2007, Textron announced that Cessna had purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US $ 26. 4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon.
On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.
D. B. Cooper is the name popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971.
The event began mid-afternoon on Thanksgiving eve, November 24, 1971, at Portland International Airport in Portland, Oregon.
In November 1885 he went to Newberg, Oregon, to live with his uncle John Minthorn, a frontier physician and businessman whose own son had died the year before.
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* November 5 Voters in the Portland, Oregon metro area defeat a measure that would begin the process of converting Enron subsidiary PGE into a PUD, after both local utility companies, Portland General Electric and PacifiCorp, spend $ 1. 9 million on advertisements to defeat the measure.
* November 18 Enron announced that it was selling its subsidiary PGE to a group of investors headed by former Oregon governor Neil Goldschmidt and funded by Texas Pacific Group for $ 2. 35 billion.
In November 2005, Hershey acquired Joseph Schmidt Confections, the San Francisco based chocolatier, and a year later, in November 2006, Hershey acquired Dagoba Organic Chocolate, a boutique chocolate maker based in Ashland, Oregon.
Grant County ’ s government operates in accordance with the Oregon Constitution which was ratified by the People of Oregon in November 1857, and the revised Statutes of Oregon.
She was elected on November 7, 2006 as the first woman sheriff of Benton County and the first elected female sheriff in Oregon.
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Hanson embarked on the " Walk Around the World Tour " starting on September 7, 2008 in Portland, Oregon and ending November 16, 2008 in San Diego, California.
It was incorporated as Arlington by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on November 20, 1885.
Monmouth's status as the last dry town in Oregon was ended by a popular vote in the November 2002 election.
Union was platted on November 11, 1864 along the Oregon Trail.
While touring in the US, Mitch Mitchell was found dead on November 12, 2008 in his room at the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
According to Oregon Geographic Names, a post office with the spelling " Tualitin " was established November 5, 1869, and the spelling changed to " Tualatin " in 1915.
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