Today in History
8 November
262 births · 114 deaths · 62 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1881
Clarence Gagnon
Canadian painter (1881–1942)
Notable Births
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Jade Pettyjohn
b. 2000
American actress (born 2000)
Jasmine Thompson
b. 2000
English singer and songwriter (born 2000)
Isaac Bonga
b. 1999
German basketball player (born 1999)
Leonardo Fernández (Uruguayan footballer)
b. 1997
Uruguayan footballer (born 1998)
Victorinus Youn Kong-hi
b. 1924
Archbishop of Gwangju
Tomoyuki Yamashita
b. 1885
Japanese officer and war criminal (1885–1946)
Clarence Gagnon
b. 1881
Canadian painter (1881–1942)
Gottlob Frege
b. 1848
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
Notable Deaths
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Graham Richardson
d. 2025
Australian politician (1949–2025)
Elizabeth Nunez
d. 2024
American novelist (1944–2024)
June Spencer
d. 2024
English actress (1919–2024)
Trevor Sorbie
d. 2024
Scottish hairdresser (1949–2024)
Alex Trebek
d. 2020
Canadian-American TV personality (1940–2020)
Rhea Chiles
d. 2015
American philanthropist (1930–2015)
Peter Mohr Dam
d. 1968
Faroe Islands politician
Frank S. Land
d. 1959
American businessman
On This Day in History
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2020
Myanmar holds the 2020 general election, re-electing a government led by the National League for Democracy, which is deposed by the Burmese military the following February during the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
2020 Myanmar general election
2017
The Louvre Abu Dhabi was inaugurated by the French president Emmanuel Macron and then-crown prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Louvre Abu Dhabi
2016
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly announces the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes.
2016 Indian banknote demonetisation
2016
Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever to receive a major party's nomination.
Donald Trump
2013
Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD; equivalent to $3.95 billion in 2025) in damage.
Typhoon Haiyan
2011
The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 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.
Potentially hazardous object
2006
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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.
Iraq War