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, 1,762,560,000 seconds 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

• 1620 –
  The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
• 1901 –
  Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
• 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.
• 1936 –
  Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
• 1937 –
  The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
• 1942 –
  World 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.
• 1957 –
  Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
• 1966 –
  Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
• 1968 –
  The 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.
• 2004 –
  War 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.

Who were born on November 8?

• 1622 –
  King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
• 1885 –
  Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
• 1895 –
  Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
• 1929 –
  António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
• 1933 –
  Peter Arundell, British racing driver
• 1960 –
  Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
• 1971 –
  Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
• 1978 –
  Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
• 1980 –
  Ana Vidović, Croatian virtuoso classical guitarist
• 1983 –
  Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor

Who died on November 8?

• 1195 –
  Conrad of Hohenstaufen
• 1817 –
  Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
• 1921 –
  Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
• 1970 –
  Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
• 1975 –
  Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese writer (b. 1925)
• 1983 –
  James Hayden, American actor (b. 1953)
• 1985 –
  Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
• 1992 –
  Larry Levan, American DJ (b. 1954)
• 1998 –
  Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
• 1998 –
  Rumer Godden, British writer (b. 1907)