SomeFacts | November 8

On this day - November 8

960 — Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger ...

1278 — Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, ...

1291 — The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of ...

1519 — Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma ...

1520 — After being crowned king of Sweden, Christian II gave the ...

1576 — Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States ...

1602 — The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to ...

1605 — Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is ...

1614 — Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the ...

1620 — The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending ...

1644 — The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is ...

1745 — Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ...

1837 — Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later ...

1861 — American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San ...

1889 — Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

1892 — The Carmaux-Bons Enfants bombing marks the start of Émile ...

1892 — The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white ...

1895 — While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen ...

1901 — Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following ...

1917 — The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, ...

1919 — Eichenfeld massacre: Members of the Revolutionary Insurgent ...

1920 — Rupert Bear, illustrated by Mary Tourtel makes his first ...

1923 — Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in ...

1932 — Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the ...

1933 — Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

1936 — Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to ...

1937 — The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal ...

1939 — In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination ...

1939 — Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the ...

1940 — Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as ...

1942 — World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 ...

1950 — Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, ...

1957 — Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its ...

1957 — Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. ...

1960 — John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United ...

1963 — Finnair's Aero Flight 217 crashes near Mariehamn Airport ...

1965 — American Airlines Flight 383 crashes in Constance, Kentucky, ...

1965 — The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in ...

1965 — The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given ...

1965 — The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of ...

1966 — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust ...

1966 — Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes ...

1968 — The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate ...

1972 — American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches.

1973 — The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a ...

1977 — Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the ...

1981 — Aeroméxico Flight 110 crashes near Zihuatanejo, Mexico, ...

1983 — TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from ...

1987 — Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in ...

1988 — U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st ...

1994 — Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States ...

1997 — Eritrea adopts the nakfa as its official currency.

1999 — Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. ...

2002 — Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: ...

2004 — Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of ...

2006 — Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Israeli Defense Force kill ...

2011 — The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar ...

2013 — Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever ...

2016 — Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United ...

2016 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly announces the ...

2017 — The Louvre Abu Dhabi was inaugurated by the French president ...

2020 — Myanmar holds the 2020 general election, re-electing a ...