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Day Of The Week: November 8
November 8, 2025 is the 312th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 53 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Scorpio is your zodiac sign. Topaz is your modern birthstone. Pearl is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: November 8
- 1745 –Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
- 1917 –The People’s Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
- 1937 –The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
- 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.
- 1966 –Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
- 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.
- 1976 –A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
- 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”.
- 2011 –The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324600 km), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since mpl 2010 XC in 1976.
Who were born on November 8?
- 1837 –Ilia Chavchavadze, founding father of modern Georgia (d. 1907)
- 1884 –Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
- 1885 –Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
- 1888 –David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (d. 1974)
- 1896 –Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1932 –Stéphane Audran, French actress
- 1936 –Virna Lisi, Italian actress
- 1956 –Steven Miller, American record producer
- 1978 –Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
- 1985 –Jack Osbourne, English television star
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