What Day of the Week

November 8, 2020 is the 313^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 53 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.

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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1520

  Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
• 1605

  Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
• 1889

  Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
• 1892

  The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
• 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.
• 1960

  John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.
• 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.
• 1973

  The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
• 1977

  Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
• 2004

  War in Iraq: 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.

• 1848

  Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925)
• 1888

  David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (d. 1974)
• 1944

  Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
• 1951

  Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
• 1957

  Alan Curbishley, English football manager
• 1970

  Diana King, Jamaican singer
• 1975

  José Pinto, Spanish footballer
• 1978

  Shyne (Moses Michael Leviy), Belizean-born rapper
• 1979

  Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress
• 1983

  Katharina Molitor, German javelin thrower

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