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This is a list of selected November 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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St. Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church); refimprove section
Remembrance Sunday in the Commonwealth (2015) refimprove
International Day of Radiology needs to be updated for 2020
1519Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlan where Aztec tlatoani Moctezuma II welcomed him with great pomp as would befit a returning god. unreferenced section
1576 – The provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands signed the Pacification of Ghent, to make peace with the rebelling provinces Holland and Zeeland, and also to form an alliance to drive the occupying Spanish out of the country. refimprove section
1602 – The Bodleian Library, one of Europe's oldest libraries, opened at the University of Oxford. refimprove section
1620Thirty Years' War: An army of 15,000 Bohemians and mercenaries were routed by 27,000 men of the combined armies of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Catholic League at the Battle of White Mountain near Prague. refimprove section
1837 – In South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S., Mary Lyon founded a seminary for women that became Mount Holyoke College, the first of the Seven Sisters group of colleges. refimprove section
1861American Civil War: USS San Jacinto stopped RMS Trent (depicted) and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States. Too many quotes
1892 – Despite racial divisions, black and white union members united in a general strike in New Orleans. lots of CN tags (8)
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray. refimprove section
1923Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other members of the Kampfbund started the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to seize power in Weimar Germany. refimprove/unreferenced sections
1939Georg Elser unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a time bomb, but killed eight people and injured sixty-two others instead. primary sources, page numbers needed
1942 – The North African Campaign of the Second World War: Operation Torch began when American and British forces invaded French North Africa. multiple issues
1965 – The United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. refimprove section
1965 – The United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. refimprove section
1972HBO, the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, began broadcasting to 325 subscribers. Too much uncited
2013Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people, making it the deadliest Philippine typhoon recorded in modern history. unreferenced section
2016 – The Government of India announced the demonetisation of certain banknotes, causing prolonged cash shortages in the weeks that followed and significant disruption throughout the economy. Update needed banner
Sancha of León |d|1067 date of death uncertain
Baeda Maryam I |d|1478| Deathdate uncited

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