Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 8
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November 8: St. Demetrius' Day in Republika Srpska
- 1520 – Following a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under Christian II of Denmark, scores of Swedish leaders were executed in Stockholm despite Christian's promise of general amnesty.
- 1576 – The provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands signed the Pacification of Ghent, a peace treaty with the rebelling provinces Holland and Zeeland, and also an agreement to form an alliance to drive the occupying Spanish out of the country.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The USS San Jacinto stopped the British mailship Trent and arrested two Confederate envoys (James Murray Mason pictured) en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between Great Britain and the United States.
- 1965 – Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead in her New York City townhouse, in what was rumored to be a murder due to the information she had regarding controversial stories such as the John F. Kennedy assassination.
- 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing at least eleven people and injuring sixty-three others.