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. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.
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| 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlan where Aztec tlatoani Moctezuma II welcomed him with great pomp as would befit a returning god. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 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. | tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1923 – Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other members of the Kampfbund started the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to seize power in Germany. | tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1942 – The North African Campaign of the Second World War: Operation Torch began when American and British forces invaded French North Africa. | needs more footnotes |
| 1965 – American journalist Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead in her New York City townhouse, in what was rumored to be a murder because of information she had regarding controversial stories such as the John F. Kennedy assassination. | inappropriate tone |
| 2002 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441, giving Iraq an ultimatum to disarm or face "serious consequences". | Tagged for citation cleanup |
Eligible
- 1602 – The Bodleian Library, one of Europe's oldest libraries, opened on the grounds of the University of Oxford in England.
- 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.
- 1837 – In South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mary Lyon founded a seminary for women that became Mount Holyoke College, the first of the Seven Sisters group of colleges.
- 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.
November 8: St. Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray (example pictured).
- 1965 – Vietnam War: In one of the earliest battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian attack in the Battle of Gang Toi.
- 1971 – English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which would go on to be one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
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