What happened on November 8? There are more than 282 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 8
November 8 is the 313th day of the year 2024. There are 53 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 45th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Indianola, Washington 98342 sunrise will occur at 07:04 AM and sunset will occur at 04:43 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 82 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 8
- 1519Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
- 1520Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
- 1576Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
- 1602The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
- 1605Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
- 1620The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
- 1745Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
- 1837Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
- 1861American Civil War: The “Trent Affair” – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
- 1889Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
- 1892The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
- 1895While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
- 1901Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
- 1917The People’s Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
- 1923Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- 1933Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
- 1936Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
- 1937The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
- 1939In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
- 1939Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
- 1942World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
- 1942World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
- 1950Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
- 1957Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
- 1960John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.
- 1965The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
- 1965The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
- 1965The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
- 1966Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
- 1966U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
- 1968The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
- 1971Led Zeppelin releases “Led Zeppelin IV,” which becomes the third-best-selling album ever in the US.
- 1973The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
- 1976A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
- 1977Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
- 1987Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
- 2002Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.
- 2004War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
- 2011The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324600 km), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since mpl 2010 XC in 1976.
Who Were Born On November 8?
- 30Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
- 1342Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
- 1491Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
- 1622King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
- 1656Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
- 1706Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
- 1710Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
- 1715Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
- 1723John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
- 1768Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
- 1777Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
- 1788Mihály Bertalanits Slovene poet and teacher in Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1853)
- 1836Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
- 1837Ilia Chavchavadze, founding father of modern Georgia (d. 1907)
- 1847Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912)
- 1847Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
- 1848Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925)
- 1854Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
- 1866Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
- 1868Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
- 1869Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (d. 1945)
- 1883Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
- 1884Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
- 1885Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
- 1885Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
- 1885Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
- 1888David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (d. 1974)
- 1893Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1965)
- 1893Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
- 1895Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
- 1896Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1897Dorothy Day, social activist (d. 1980)
- 1898Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
- 1900Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
- 1900Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949)
- 1904Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
- 1908Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1912June Havoc, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1912Stylianos Pattakos, Greek army officer and member of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974
- 1918Hermann Zapf, German designer
- 1919P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
- 1920Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1920Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
- 1922Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
- 1922Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
- 1923Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1924Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1924Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1927Chris Connor, American jazz singer (d. 2009)
- 1927Ken Dodd, English comedian
- 1927Lal Krishna Advani, Indian politician
- 1927Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
- 1927Patti Page, American singer
- 1929António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
- 1929Bobby Bowden, American football coach
- 1931Darla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
- 1931Morley Safer, American journalist
- 1932Stéphane Audran, French actress
- 1933Peter Arundell, British racing driver
- 1935Alain Delon, French actor
- 1935Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop (d. 2008)
- 1935Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer (d. 1990)
- 1936Virna Lisi, Italian actress
- 1938Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
- 1942Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
- 1943Martin Peters, English footballer
- 1944Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
- 1946Guus Hiddink, Dutch football coach
- 1946Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)
- 1947Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
- 1949Bonnie Raitt, American singer
- 1949Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
- 1950Mary Hart, American television personality
- 1951Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
- 1951Peter Suber, American academic
- 1952Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (d. 1977)
- 1952Alfre Woodard, American actress
- 1952Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises
- 1952Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
- 1952Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator
- 1952John Denny, American baseball player
- 1953Giorgos Foiros, Greek footballer and football manager
- 1953John Musker, American animation director
- 1954David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster
- 1954Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
- 1954Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
- 1954Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director
- 1954Rickie Lee Jones, American singer
- 1954Thanasis Pafilis, Greek politician
- 1955Patricia Barber, jazz & blues singer, pianist, songwriter
- 1956Mari Boine, Norwegian musician who added jazz & rock to the yoiks of the Sami people
- 1956Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
- 1956Steven Miller, American record producer
- 1957Alan Curbishley, English football manager
- 1957Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
- 1958Don Byron, American clarinetist
- 1958Ken Lamberton, American writer, former teacher, and convicted sex offender
- 1959Chi Chi LaRue, American pornographic producer
- 1960Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
- 1960Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
- 1961Leif Garrett, American singer
- 1961Micky Adams, English football manager
- 1965Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
- 1965Jeff Blauser, American baseball player
- 1966Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
- 1966Toralf Arndt, German footballer
- 1966Urmas Välbe, Estonian cross-country skier
- 1967Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
- 1967Henry Rodriguez, Dominican Republic baseball player
- 1967Kamar de los Reyes, American actor
- 1968Jose Offerman, Dominican baseball player
- 1968Keith Jones, Canadian hockey player
- 1968Parker Posey, American actress
- 1968Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
- 1968Zara Whites, Dutch actress
- 1969Roxana Zal, American actress
- 1970Diana King, Jamaican singer
- 1970José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
- 1970Tom Anderson, co-founder of Myspace
- 1971Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE), American rapper
- 1971Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
- 1972Gretchen Mol, American actress
- 1974Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
- 1974Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
- 1974Penny Heyns, South African swimmer
- 1974Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
- 1975Brevin Knight, American basketball player
- 1975José Pinto, Spanish footballer
- 1975Tara Reid, American actress
- 1976Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
- 1976Colin Strause, American director
- 1977Bucky Covington, American entertainer
- 1977Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
- 1977Nick Punto, American baseball player
- 1978Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
- 1978Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
- 1978Maurice Evans, American basketball player
- 1978Shyne (Moses Michael Leviy), Belizean-born rapper
- 1978Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
- 1979Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
- 1979Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player
- 1979Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress
- 1980Ana Vidović, Croatian virtuoso classical guitarist
- 1980Holly Walsh, British comedian, comedy writer and TV and radio presenter
- 1980Luís Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
- 1980Tom Gabel, American punk rock musician (Against Me!)
- 1981Azura Skye, American actress
- 1981Joe Cole, English footballer
- 1981Yann Kermorgant, French footballer
- 1982Ethan Ruan, Taiwanese model and actor
- 1982Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib
- 1982Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
- 1982Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor
- 1982Ted DiBiase Jr., professional wrestler in WWE
- 1983Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
- 1983Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor
- 1983Katharina Molitor, German javelin thrower
- 1983Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
- 1984Steven Webb, English actor
- 1985Jack Osbourne, English television star
- 1985Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
- 1986Jamie Roberts, Welsh and British & Irish Lions rugby player
- 1987Sam Bradford, American football player and winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy
- 1988Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress
- 1988Lucia Slaničková, Slovak heptathlete
- 1994Lauren Alaina, American singer and American Idol runner-up
- 2003Lady Louise Windsor, British royal
Who Died On November 8?
- 911Louis the Child of the East Franks (b. 893)
- 955Pope Agapetus II
- 1115Godfrey of Amiens (b. 1066)
- 1171Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
- 1195Conrad of Hohenstaufen
- 1226King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
- 1246Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
- 1308Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
- 1517Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman and cardinal (b. 1436)
- 1527Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
- 1599Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
- 1600Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
- 1605Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
- 1658Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
- 1674John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
- 1719Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
- 1817Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
- 1830King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
- 1873Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796)
- 1887Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
- 1890César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
- 1895Robert Battey, American surgeon (b. 1828)
- 1905Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
- 1917Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
- 1921Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
- 1924Michele Merlo, American mafia figure (b. 1880)
- 1934Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
- 1944Walter Nowotny, Austrian-born German fighter pilot (b. 1920)
- 1945August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
- 1949Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman (b. 1874)
- 1953Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- 1953John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)
- 1959Frank Sherman Land, American Freemason (b. 1890)
- 1965Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
- 1966Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist (b. 1891)
- 1968Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1970Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
- 1974Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914)
- 1975Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese writer (b. 1925)
- 1977Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
- 1977Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1931)
- 1978Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
- 1979Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
- 1983James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)
- 1983James Hayden, American actor (b. 1953)
- 1983Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-born American rabbi and educator (b. 1881)
- 1985Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-born American painter and book illustrator (b. 1915)
- 1985Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
- 1986Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
- 1992Larry Levan, American DJ (b. 1954)
- 1993Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1994Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (b. 1940)
- 1998Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
- 1998John Hunt, Baron Hunt, British mountaineer (b. 1910)
- 1998Rumer Godden, British writer (b. 1907)
- 1999Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
- 1999Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
- 2001Aristidis Moschos, Greek santouri player (b. 1930)
- 2002Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
- 2003Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
- 2003C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
- 2003Guy Speranza, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
- 2004Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
- 2005Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
- 2005David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
- 2006Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
- 2006Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist (b. 1941)
- 2007Chad Varah, English humanitarian (b. 1911)
- 2007Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary (b. 1943)
- 2009Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
- 2010Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (b. 1950)
- 2010Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
- 2010Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915)
- 2010Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
- 2011Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
- 2011Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967)
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