Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 8
This is a list of selected November 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| St. Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church); Remembrance Sunday in the Commonwealth (2015) | refimprove |
| 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlan where Aztec tlatoani Moctezuma II welcomed him with great pomp as would befit a returning god. | unreferenced section |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 1576 – The provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands signed the Pacification of Ghent, to make peace with the rebelling provinces Holland and Zeeland, and also to form an alliance to drive the occupying Spanish out of the country. | refimprove section |
| 1602 – The Bodleian Library, one of Europe's oldest libraries, opened at the University of Oxford. | unreferenced section |
| 1620 – Thirty Years' War: An army of 15,000 Bohemians and mercenaries were routed by 27,000 men of the combined armies of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Catholic League at the Battle of White Mountain near Prague. | refimprove section |
| 1923 – Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other members of the Kampfbund started the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to seize power in Weimar Germany. | refimprove section |
| 1942 – The North African Campaign of the Second World War: Operation Torch began when American and British forces invaded French North Africa. | refimprove |
| 1837 – In South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S., Mary Lyon founded a seminary for women that became Mount Holyoke College, the first of the Seven Sisters group of colleges. | refimprove section |
| 1892 – Despite racial divisions, black and white union members united in a general strike in New Orleans. | refimprove section |
| 1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – The United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. | refimprove section |
| 2002 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441, giving Iraq an ultimatum to disarm or face "serious consequences". | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of Vietnam's Trần dynasty, took up the post of Retired Emperor, but continued to co-rule with his son Trần Khâm for eleven more years.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The USS San Jacinto stopped the British mailship Trent and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.
- 1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: In the Battle of Gang Toi, one of the earliest battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian attack.
- 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
- 1971 – English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which would go on to be one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
- 2013 – Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people, making it the deadliest Philippine typhoon recorded in modern history.
- Born/died: Robert Catesby (d. 1605)
Notes
- Gunpowder plot appears on November 5, so Robert Catesby should not appear in the same year
- 960 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Having been the target of many raids by the Emirate of Aleppo, Byzantine forces led by Leo Phokas the Younger ambushed the Hamdanids and annihilated their army.
- 1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
- 1939 – Johann Georg Elser (pictured) unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a time bomb, but killed eight people and injured more than sixty-two others.
- 1972 – HBO, the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, began broadcasting to 325 subscribers.
- 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing twelve people and injuring sixty-three others.
Baeda Maryam I (d. 1478) · Hermann Rorschach (b. 1884) · Dorothy Kilgallen (d. 1965)