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, 489,600 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 ‘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

• 1602 –
  The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
• 1605 –
  Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
• 1620 –
  The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
• 1745 –
  Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
• 1861 –
  American Civil War: The “Trent Affair” – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
• 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.
• 1901 –
  Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
• 1939 –
  Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
• 1957 –
  Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
• 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?

• 1710 –
  Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
• 1715 –
  Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
• 1927 –
  Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
• 1936 –
  Virna Lisi, Italian actress
• 1938 –
  Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
• 1942 –
  Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
• 1949 –
  Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
• 1954 –
  Rickie Lee Jones, American singer
• 1968 –
  Keith Jones, Canadian hockey player
• 1970 –
  Diana King, Jamaican singer

Who died on November 8?

• 1171 –
  Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
• 1599 –
  Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
• 1719 –
  Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
• 1921 –
  Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
• 1977 –
  Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1931)
• 1983 –
  James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)
• 2001 –
  Aristidis Moschos, Greek santouri player (b. 1930)
• 2005 –
  Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
• 2006 –
  Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
• 2007 –
  Chad Varah, English humanitarian (b. 1911)