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 313^th 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, 480,840 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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 1977 –
  Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
• 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.
• 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?

• 1715 –
  Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
• 1788 –
  Mihály Bertalanits Slovene poet and teacher in Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1853)
• 1922 –
  Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
• 1935 –
  Alain Delon, French actor
• 1944 –
  Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
• 1954 –
  Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
• 1970 –
  Diana King, Jamaican singer
• 1972 –
  Gretchen Mol, American actress
• 1975 –
  Brevin Knight, American basketball player
• 1981 –
  Joe Cole, English footballer

Who died on November 8?

• 1226 –
  King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
• 1830 –
  King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
• 1890 –
  César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
• 1953 –
  John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)
• 1978 –
  Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
• 1998 –
  John Hunt, Baron Hunt, British mountaineer (b. 1910)
• 2003 –
  Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
• 2007 –
  Chad Varah, English humanitarian (b. 1911)
• 2007 –
  Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary (b. 1943)
• 2011 –
  Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967)