November 8 Holidays

✡️ Religious Observances

• Hindu: Diwali major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2016 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes effective midnight, making 86% of the... ↗
• 2016 — Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States defeating Hillary Clinton. She is the fifth presidential candidate in U.S.... ↗
• 2013 — Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at... ↗
• 2011 — The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the... ↗
• 2004 — Iraq War: 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. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1993 — Przemek Karnowski, Polish basketball player
• 1993 — Fraser Mullen, Scottish footballer
• 1992 — Christophe Vincent, French footballer
• 1991 — Aaron Fotheringham, American wheelchair athlete
• 1991 — Jack Littlejohn, Australian rugby league player