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 313th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 53 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 26, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,850,400 minutes 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.
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 82 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 4,340 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 8 Historical Events
- 1519 –Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
- 1520 –Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
- 1745 –Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
- 1889 –Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1936 –Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
- 1960 –John 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.
- 1965 –The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
- 1977 –Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
- 2002 –Iraq 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”.
Who were born on November 8?
- 1706 –Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
- 1836 –Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
- 1927 –Patti Page, American singer
- 1949 –Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
- 1967 –Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
- 1974 –Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
- 1975 –Tara Reid, American actress
- 1985 –Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
- 1986 –Jamie Roberts, Welsh and British & Irish Lions rugby player
- 1987 –Sam Bradford, American football player and winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy
Who died on November 8?
- 1658 –Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
- 1719 –Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
- 1917 –Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
- 1953 –Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- 1986 –Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
- 1999 –Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
- 2001 –Aristidis Moschos, Greek santouri player (b. 1930)
- 2003 –C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
- 2005 –David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
- 2010 –Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
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