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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Hernán Cortés
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  Hernán Cortés
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  James Murray Mason (Trent affair)
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  Christian II of Denmark
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  Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
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  X-ray of the hand of W. Röntgen's wife
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  Bodleian Library
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  Engraving of the Stockholm Bloodbath
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  Decorated Venetian glass bowl
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  The San Jacinto (right) stopping the Trent
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  Trần Nhân Tông

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
St. Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church);	refimprove section
Remembrance Sunday in the Commonwealth (2015)	refimprove
International Day of Radiology	needs to be updated for 2024
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
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.	refimprove 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
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
1861 – American Civil War: USS San Jacinto stopped RMS Trent (depicted) and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.	Too many quotes
1892 – Despite racial divisions, black and white union members united in a general strike in New Orleans.	lots of CN tags (8)
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray.	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/unreferenced sections
1939 – Georg Elser unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a time bomb, but killed eight people and injured sixty-two others instead.	primary sources, page numbers needed
1942 – The North African Campaign of the Second World War: Operation Torch began when American and British forces invaded French North Africa.	multiple issues
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
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
1972 – HBO, the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, began broadcasting to 325 subscribers.	Too much uncited
2016 – The Government of India announced the demonetisation of certain banknotes, causing prolonged cash shortages in the weeks that followed and significant disruption throughout the economy.	Update needed banner
Sancha of León |d|1067	date of death uncertain
Baeda Maryam I |d|1478|	Deathdate uncited

Eligible

• 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.
• 1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of Vietnam's Trần dynasty, took up the title of retired emperor, but continued to co-rule with his son Nhân Tông for eleven more years.
• 1291 – A law was passed that confined most of Venice's glassmaking industry to nearby Murano.
• 1520 – Following a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under Christian II, scores of Swedish leaders in Stockholm were imprisoned and later executed despite Christian's promise of general amnesty.
• 1932 – The Australian military withdrew from their "war against emus" in Western Australia, due to negative press coverage of the operation.
• 1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians at the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
• 1957 – En route from San Francisco to Honolulu, Pan Am Flight 7 crashed into the Pacific Ocean due to unknown causes, killing all 44 people on board.
• 1971 – English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which became one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
• 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 12 people and injuring 63 others.
• 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.
• 2020 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijani forces defeated the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Battle of Shusha, reclaiming the town after 28 years.
• Born/died: | Lettice Knollys |b|1543| Nyaungyan Min |b|1555| Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy |d|1605| Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz |d|1773| James A. Doonan |b|1841| J. Havens Richards |b|1851| John Mercer Johnson |d|1868| Dorothea Bate |b|1878| Arnold Bax |b|1883| Stylianos Pattakos |b|1912| Kamal Ranadive |b|1917| Des Corcoran |b|1928| Subroto Mukerjee |d|1960 | Dorothy Kilgallen |d|1965| Chika Kuroda |d|1968| Tom Anderson |b|1970

Notes

• Gunpowder plot appears on November 5, so Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy should not appear in the same year
• The Emu War appears on November 2, so try to avoid it appearing in the same year.

November 8: Intersex Day of Remembrance

Shunzhi Emperor

• 1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor (portrait shown), 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.
• 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.
• 1974 – British peer Lord Lucan disappeared without a trace, a day after allegedly murdering Sandra Rivett, his children's nanny.
• 2006 – Israeli artillery shelled a row of houses in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, killing at least 19 Palestinians and wounding more than 40 others.

• Thomas Bewick (d. 1828)
• Hermann Rorschach (b. 1884)
• Rhea Seddon (b. 1947)
• Johannes Latuharhary (d. 1959)

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• November 7
• November 8
• November 9