On this day: November 8

Events on November 8

• 960 Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla. Wikipedia
• 1519 Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. Wikipedia
• 1620 The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours. Wikipedia
• 1889 Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state. Wikipedia
• 1901 Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. Wikipedia
• 1917 The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Wikipedia
• 1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. Wikipedia
• 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover. Wikipedia
• 1933 Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed. Wikipedia
• 1936 Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the three-year Siege of Madrid afterwards. Wikipedia
• 1937 The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich. Wikipedia
• 1939 In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. Wikipedia
• 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 Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers. Wikipedia
• 1950 Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. Wikipedia
• 1957 Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later. Wikipedia
• 1960 John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, who would later be elected president in 1968 and 1972. Wikipedia
• 1966 Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction. Wikipedia
• 1966 Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction. Wikipedia
• 1966 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. Wikipedia
• 1988 U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president. Wikipedia
• 1997 Eritrea adopts the nakfa as its official currency. Wikipedia
• 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". Wikipedia
• 2004 Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. Wikipedia
• 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD; equivalent to $3.95 billion in 2025) in damage. Wikipedia
• 2016 Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever to receive a major party's nomination. Wikipedia
• 2017 The Louvre Abu Dhabi was inaugurated by the French president Emmanuel Macron and then-crown prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Wikipedia

Born on November 8

• 30 Nerva, Roman emperor (died 98) Wikipedia
• 1622 Charles X Gustav, King of Sweden (died 1660) Wikipedia
• 1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (died 1742) Wikipedia
• 1837 Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1907) Wikipedia
• 1847 Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (died 1912) Wikipedia
• 1847 Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician, 6th President of France (died 1907) Wikipedia
• 1848 Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1925) Wikipedia
• 1893 Prajadhipok, Thai king (died 1941) Wikipedia
• 1900 Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (died 1949) Wikipedia
• 1922 Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon and academic (died 2001) Wikipedia
• 1923 Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005) Wikipedia
• 1932 Stéphane Audran, French actress (died 2018) Wikipedia
• 1935 Alain Delon, French-Swiss actor, producer, screenwriter (died 2024) Wikipedia
• 1936 Virna Lisi, Italian actress (died 2014) Wikipedia
• 1946 Guus Hiddink, Dutch footballer and manager Wikipedia
• 1954 Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer Wikipedia
• 1959 Chi Chi LaRue, American drag queen performer and director Wikipedia
• 1966 Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, and television host/personality Wikipedia
• 1970 Tom Anderson, American businessman, co-founded Myspace Wikipedia
• 1974 Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese author and illustrator, created Naruto Wikipedia
• 1981 Joe Cole, English footballer Wikipedia
• 1986 Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist (died 2013) Wikipedia

Died on November 8

• 397 Martin of Tours, Frankish bishop and saint Wikipedia
• 618 Adeodatus I, pope of the Catholic Church Wikipedia
• 943 Liu, empress of Qi (Ten Kingdoms) (born 877) Wikipedia
• 955 Agapetus II, pope of the Catholic Church Wikipedia
• 1122 Ilghazi, Artuqid ruler of Mardin Wikipedia
• 1226 Louis VIII, king of France (born 1187) Wikipedia
• 1308 Duns Scotus, Scottish priest, philosopher, and academic (born 1266) Wikipedia
• 1478 Baeda Maryam I, emperor of Ethiopia (born 1448) Wikipedia
• 1674 John Milton, English poet and philosopher (born 1608) Wikipedia
• 1890 César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (born 1822) Wikipedia
• 1953 Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870) Wikipedia
• 1986 Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1890) Wikipedia
• 1998 Jean Marais, French actor and director (born 1913) Wikipedia
• 2009 Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (Roman Catholic Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Four Crowned Martyrs Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Godfrey of Amiens Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Johann von Staupitz (Lutheran) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed John Duns Scotus Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Saints and Martyrs of England (Church of England) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Tysilio Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Willehad of Bremen Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: November 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Intersex Day of Remembrance (New South Wales, Australia) Wikipedia
• International Day of Radiology (European Society of Radiology) Wikipedia
• National Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada) Wikipedia
• Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers of Heaven (Eastern Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
• World Urbanism Day Wikipedia
• Victory Day (Azerbaijan) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “November 8” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.