World
Town Planning Day
World
Town Planning Day is celebrated in 30 countries
on four continents each November 8. It is
a special day to recognize and promote the
role of planning in creating livable communities.
International
Day of Radiology
The International Day of Radiology (IDoR)
is an annual event promoting the role of
medical imaging in modern healthcare. It
is celebrated on November 8 each year, and
coincides with the anniversary of the discovery
of x-rays. It was first introduced in 2012
Events
November 8
1519
– Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and
Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with
a great celebration.
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful
invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results
in the execution of around 100 people.
1576 – Eighty Years' War: Pacification of
Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands
meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University
is opened to the public.
1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the
Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes
place near Prague, ending in a decisive
Catholic victory in only two hours.
1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England
with an army of ~5000 that would later participate
in the Battle of Culloden.
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.
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.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity,
Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens
following the translation of the Gospels
into demotic Greek.
1917 – The People's Commissars give authority
to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph
Stalin.
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf
Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful
attempt to overthrow the German government.
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.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops
fail in their effort to capture Madrid,
but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude
("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents
of SIS are captured by the Germans.
1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly
escapes the assassination attempt of Georg
Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary
of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United
States and United Kingdom forces land in
French North Africa.
1942 – World War II: French resistance coup
in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French
patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army
Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest
several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate
success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
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.
1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain
conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb
test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
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 British Indian Ocean Territory
is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago,
Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty)
Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally
abolishing the death penalty in the United
Kingdom.
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.
1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General
Edward Brooke becomes the first African
American elected to the United States Senate
since Reconstruction.
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing
the National Football League to merge with
the upstart American Football League.
1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic
is signed to facilitate international road
traffic and to increase road safety by standardising
the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
1971 – Led Zeppelin releases "Led Zeppelin
IV," which becomes the third-best-selling
album ever in the US.
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.
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.
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".
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 324,600 kilometres or 201,700
miles), the closest known approach by an
asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15
in 1976.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (Roman
Catholic Church)
Four Crowned Martyrs
Godfrey of Amiens
Willehad of Bremen
November 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall,
while November 14 is the latest; celebrated
on the second Sunday in November. (Estonia,
Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)
Earliest day on which Remembrance Sunday
can fall, while November 14 is the latest;
celebrated on the second Sunday in November.
(United Kingdom)
One of the Mundus patet (Roman Empire)
Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the
other Bodiless Powers of Heaven (Eastern
Orthodox Church)
World Urbanism Day (International)
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