November 8

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on November 8. From 1900 until now. November 8 is under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Alain Delon (1935), Gordon Ramsay (1966) and Florence Foresti (1973). Several movies were released around November 8 over the years, such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 directed by Steven Spielberg and Malcolm X in 1992 directed by Spike Lee.
But much more happened on November 8 over the years: find out below

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2018 French authorities impound a Ryanair jet, because of payments owed to the European Union for illegal subsidies, at the Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport just before 149 London-bound passengers boarded. (AP)
2017 Syrian Civil War: 2017 Abu Kamal offensive: The Syrian Army and its allies capture Abu Kamal from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (Deutsche Welle)
2016 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present): Six Al Qaeda insurgents are killed by the Arab coalition in Yemen. (Reuters)
2015 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present): Houthi forces regain several positions across southern Yemen after launching a fresh offensive against loyalist and coalition forces. In Lahij province, which borders Aden, Houthi forces are now positioned on a hill overlooking the strategic Al Anad Air Base, which houses Sudanese forces. The Houthis also retook the Damt District in the Dhale province after besieging it for hours, at least 16 people were killed in the clashes. (AFP via Yahoo)
2014 Military intervention against ISIS: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is critically wounded during a US airstrike at al-Qaim. (DailyMail)
2013 Somali Civil War (2009–present):: At least 11 people are killed in the Somalian capital Mogadishu after a bomb explodes in a carpark. (AFP via Yahoo News Australia)
2012 Syrian civil war: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejects an offer to safely leave Syria and vows to "live and die" in the country. (CBC)
2011 2011 Syrian uprising:
2010 AfghanistanAfghan and NATO-led troops kill 15 Taliban militants in the southern Kandahar province during a joint operation. (Xinhua)
2009 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tells the country's army and civilians to "prepare for war" with Colombia. (AP) (Xinhua)
2008 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with African leaders to discuss resolutions to the ongoing Kivu conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (CNN)
2007 EU interior ministers agreed that nine member states from central and eastern Europe are sufficiently prepared to join EU's Schengen border-free zone on December 21. (EUobserver)
2006 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigns; President Bush nominates Robert Gates, a former Central Intelligence Agency director, as his replacement.
2005 2005 Liberian elections: Liberians go to the polls in a presidential run-off election between millionaire soccer star George Weah and former finance minister. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Sirleaf wins 59.4 percent to Weah's 40.6 percent. (Scotsman) (CBC)
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.
2003 In Pakistan, ''United Press International'' reports a letter sent to members of the opposition in Pakistan on a military letterhead causes panic in President Pervez Musharraf's government because it says he ampquothas been imposed on this nation.ampquot The letter reportedly states that ampquot''We want to assure the nation that this army belongs to you and to Pakistannbsp... Pervez Musharraf and his clique has been imposed on this nation''ampquot.
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''.
2000 The third and final stage of the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2000, ends in victory for the ruling National Democratic Party.
1998 Japan Golf Classic
1997 Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild
1996 All 141 people on board a Nigerian-owned Boeing 727 die when the aircraft crashes into the Atlantic Ocean while approaching Lagos airport.
1995 Police use a controversial pressure-point hold on demonstrators at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Auckland, New Zealand.
1994 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98
1992 Solitary Confinement opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 performances
1991 Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV
1990 6 Degrees of Separation opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 performances
1989 Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
1988 900 die as earthquake hits China
1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes
1986 Song & Dance closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances
1985 Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
1984 Anna Fisher becomes 1st mom to go into orbit
1983 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female Governor of Kentucky
1982 In Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA a falling meteorite pierces the roof of a house.
1981 Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
1980 In Gorda Plate, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. Most of the damage occurred east of Fields Landing, where two sections of an overpass on U.S. Highway 101 collapsed onto the railroad tracks below.
1979 ABC broadcasts Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to Nightline)
1977 Bucky Harris dies on his 81st birthday in Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Major League Baseball player-manager for the Washington Senators in the 1920s.
1976 A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
1975 Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St. Paul, to become NWA champ
1974 British Lord Lucan disappears
1973 Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai.
1970 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63-yard field goal.
1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John Lennon.
1967 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)
1966 Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate
1965 Days of Our Lives premieres on TV
1964 IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
1963 Finnair flight OH-LCA crashes before landing at Mariehamn airport on the Åland islands.
1962 Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape
1961 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
1960 JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th US President
1959 KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1958 Maria Golovin closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances
1957 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1953 Salazars party wins all parliament seats in Portugal
1951 New York Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards
1950 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War
1945 Girl from Nantucket opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances
1944 Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders
1942 Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa (Casablanca)
1940 RAF bombs Munich
1939 In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia
1937 The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (''The Eternal Jew'') opens in Munich.
1934 Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league President
1933 FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1932 Make Mine Music, debuts
1931 The Panama Canal is closed for a couple of weeks due to damage caused by a number of earthquakes.
1929 New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1924 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1920 Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
1918 Pro-German Supreme Commander general Cutters lay-offs
1917 Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
1904 President Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) defeats Alton B Parker (Democrat).
1901 Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
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