What Day of the Week

November 8, 2019 is the 312^nd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 53 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

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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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• 1933

  Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
• 1942

  World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
• 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.
• 1976

  A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
• 1977

  Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
• 1987

  Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
• 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.
• 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.

• 1837

  Ilia Chavchavadze, founding father of modern Georgia (d. 1907)
• 1929

  António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
• 1931

  Morley Safer, American journalist
• 1949

  Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
• 1952

  Alfre Woodard, American actress
• 1958

  Don Byron, American clarinetist
• 1978

  Maurice Evans, American basketball player
• 1979

  Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
• 1983

  Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
• 1987

  Sam Bradford, American football player and winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy

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