What are the important events that happened on November 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 8: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 8 is the 313rd day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 53 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 26, 2016 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 410,712 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecatrigon’ day.
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Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 81 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,418 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 8 Historical Events
- 1602 –The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
- 1745 –Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
- 1892 –The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
- 1933 –Great 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.
- 1939 –Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
- 1950 –Korean 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.
- 1965 –The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
- 1965 –The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
- 1976 –A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
- 2011 –The 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?
- 1935 –Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer (d. 1990)
- 1942 –Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
- 1952 –Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises
- 1952 –Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
- 1953 –John Musker, American animation director
- 1968 –Zara Whites, Dutch actress
- 1974 –Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
- 1975 –Tara Reid, American actress
- 1978 –Shyne (Moses Michael Leviy), Belizean-born rapper
- 1983 –Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
Who died on November 8?
- 1600 –Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
- 1905 –Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
- 1953 –Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- 1970 –Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
- 1975 –Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese writer (b. 1925)
- 1977 –Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1931)
- 1994 –Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (b. 1940)
- 2001 –Aristidis Moschos, Greek santouri player (b. 1930)
- 2005 –Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
- 2007 –Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary (b. 1943)
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