November 8: Day of the Week
November 8, 2022 is the 312th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 53 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kayōbi.
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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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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November 8 Historical Event(s)
- 1602The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
- 1889Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
- 1937The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
- 1950Korean 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.
- 1965The 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.
- 1965The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
- 1966U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
- 1973The 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.
- 2004War 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.
- 2011The 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?
- 1847Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
- 1904Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
- 1932Stéphane Audran, French actress
- 1935Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop (d. 2008)
- 1938Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
- 1946Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)
- 1954Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
- 1968Parker Posey, American actress
- 1978Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
- 1983Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor
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