About November 8
November 8, 2024 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.
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Scorpio is the sun 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.
What Happened On November 8
- 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.
- 1576 –Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
- 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.
- 1837 –Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
- 1889 –Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
- 1901 –Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
- 1923 –Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
- 1957 –Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
- 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.
- 1965 –The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
- 1965 –The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
- 1971 –Led Zeppelin releases “Led Zeppelin IV,” which becomes the third-best-selling album ever in the US.
- 1976 –A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
- 1977 –Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
- 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”.
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