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.

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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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• 1576

  Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
• 1837

  Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
• 1861

  American Civil War: The “Trent Affair” – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
• 1923

  Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
• 1965

  The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
• 1966

  Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2002

  Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.

• 1923

  Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
• 1935

  Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop (d. 2008)
• 1952

  Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises
• 1954

  David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster
• 1974

  Penny Heyns, South African swimmer
• 1977

  Nick Punto, American baseball player
• 1980

  Holly Walsh, British comedian, comedy writer and TV and radio presenter
• 1980

  Luís Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
• 1983

  Katharina Molitor, German javelin thrower
• 1986

  Jamie Roberts, Welsh and British & Irish Lions rugby player

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