{"id":208320,"date":"2020-01-01T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/day\/november-8\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T00:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T00:37:25","slug":"november-8","status":"publish","type":"otd_day","link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/day\/november-8\/","title":{"rendered":"November 8: Facts & Historical Events On This Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

November 8th is officially Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day and World Radiography Day.

Welcome to day 312 of the year folks, there are days remaining in 2025.

Today in history was packed with a range of events including devastating disasters, space exploration, music advances and more. Here we’ve found the most interesting events that all happened on this day.

Did you know that on this day in 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered x-rays? He used the “X” because it’s the mathematical symbol for the unknown, and he wasn’t sure what he’d discovered at first.

Keep reading for more fun & interesting facts about November 8^{th in history!\r\n\r\n}

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What memorable events happened on November 8 in history? Keep reading to find out!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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2018\r\n\r\n
The Camp Fire in California became that state’s deadliest blaze after it killed 88 people and caused 52,000 people to be evacuated.\r\n\r\n
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The disaster also caused $16.5 billion in damages, covering 153,336 acres.\r\n\r\n
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2018\r\n\r\n
Two hundred bodies were found in a mass grave site between Ethiopia and Somalia.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It became physical evidence of the atrocities done by former regional president Abdi Mohamed.\r\n\r\n
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2017\r\n\r\n
All schools and colleges in Delhi, India, were closed for a week due to dangerous levels of smog.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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2016\r\n\r\n
Donald Trump won an election to become the 45th president of the United States of America.\r\n\r\n
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Republican, Trump received 304 electoral votes against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton who received 227 votes.\r\n\r\n
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2013\r\n\r\n
Category five Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines and claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people with gusts up to 145 miles per hour.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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2011\r\n\r\n
Asteroid 2005 YU55 came dangerously close to hitting the Earth.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It whizzed past at a distance of about 201,700 miles (324,600 km), closer than the moon’s orbit. It was the closest a space object has come to us since 1976.\r\n\r\n
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2004\r\n\r\n
Canadian country singer Shania Twain released her Greatest Hits album and later received Billboard’s 2004 Album of the Year.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1988\r\n\r\n
George H. W. Bush was elected as the 41st President of the United States of America.\r\n\r\n
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1972\r\n\r\n
Home Box Office, otherwise known as HBO, was launched.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The first program aired by HBO was an NHL game between the Vancouver Canucks and the New York Rangers. At its launch, HBO had a total of 365 subscribers.\r\n\r\n
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1941\r\n\r\n
The Albanian Communist Party was formed, with Enver Hoxha as its leader.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1895\r\n\r\n
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered x-rays.\r\n\r\n
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On this day, Röntgen produced and discovered electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength called Röntgen rays, which we know today as x-rays. Röntgen won a Nobel Prize in 1901 for this discovery.\r\n\r\n
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1889\r\n\r\n
Montana became the 41st state to join the United States of America.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1734\r\n\r\n
French master chef Vincent La Chapelle formed a Freemason’s Lodge in the Netherlands.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1602\r\n\r\n
The Bodleian Library, situated at The University of Oxford, England, opened its doors to the public.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Are you celebrating your birthday today? If so, did you know that you share the same birthday as Gordon Ramsay? See what other famous people were born on this day.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1966\r\n\r\n
Gordon Ramsay\r\n\r\n
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