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, 1,731,024,000 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 ‘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
- 1895 –While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
- 1917 –The People’s Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
- 1923 –Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- 1936 –Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
- 1939 –In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
- 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.
- 1966 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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?
- 1885 –Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
- 1912 –Stylianos Pattakos, Greek army officer and member of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974
- 1952 –Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises
- 1955 –Patricia Barber, jazz & blues singer, pianist, songwriter
- 1958 –Don Byron, American clarinetist
- 1972 –Gretchen Mol, American actress
- 1981 –Yann Kermorgant, French footballer
- 1983 –Katharina Molitor, German javelin thrower
- 1984 –Steven Webb, English actor
- 1988 –Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress
Who died on November 8?
- 1246 –Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
- 1605 –Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
- 1674 –John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
- 1873 –Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796)
- 1953 –Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- 1985 –Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-born American painter and book illustrator (b. 1915)
- 1985 –Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
- 1998 –John Hunt, Baron Hunt, British mountaineer (b. 1910)
- 1998 –Rumer Godden, British writer (b. 1907)
- 2010 –Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
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