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 312^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 53 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 26, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,376,000 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 ‘trihectadecadigon’ 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 101 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 4,705 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 8 Historical Events

• 1520 –
  Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
• 1576 –
  Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
• 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.
• 1837 –
  Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
• 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.
• 1923 –
  Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
• 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.
• 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 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.

Who were born on November 8?

• 1491 –
  Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
• 1896 –
  Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1918 –
  Hermann Zapf, German designer
• 1927 –
  Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
• 1954 –
  Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
• 1954 –
  Rickie Lee Jones, American singer
• 1965 –
  Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
• 1965 –
  Jeff Blauser, American baseball player
• 1970 –
  José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
• 1988 –
  Lucia Slaničková, Slovak heptathlete

Who died on November 8?

• 955 –
  Pope Agapetus II
• 1115 –
  Godfrey of Amiens (b. 1066)
• 1226 –
  King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
• 1895 –
  Robert Battey, American surgeon (b. 1828)
• 1944 –
  Walter Nowotny, Austrian-born German fighter pilot (b. 1920)
• 1959 –
  Frank Sherman Land, American Freemason (b. 1890)
• 1974 –
  Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1978 –
  Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
• 1998 –
  Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
• 2010 –
  Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)