Editing November 8 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; [[Gospel riots]]: Bloody clashes take place in [[Athens]] following the translation of the [[Gospel]]s into [[demotic Greek]].
*[[1917]] &ndash; The first [[Council of People's Commissars]] is formed, including [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Joseph Stalin]].
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Eichenfeld massacre]]: Members of the [[Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine]] murder 136 [[Russian Mennonites|Mennonite colonists]] at Jaskyowo, initiating a series of massacres that resulted in the deaths of 827 Ukrainian Mennonites.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Patterson |first1=Sean |title=[[Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917–1921]] |year=2020 |language=en |isbn=978-0-88755-578-7 |oclc=1134608930 |location=[[Manitoba]] |publisher=[[University of Manitoba Press]] }}</ref>
*[[1920]] &ndash; [[Rupert Bear]], illustrated by [[Mary Tourtel]] makes his first appearance in print.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |title=Tourtel [née Caldwell], Mary (1874–1948), illustrator and author |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-59003 |access-date=2022-11-11 | year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/59003| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref> 
*[[1923]] &ndash; [[Beer Hall Putsch]]: In [[Munich]], [[Adolf Hitler]] leads the [[Nazism|Nazis]] in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] is [[1932 United States presidential election|elected]] as the 32nd [[President of the United States]], defeating incumbent president [[Herbert Hoover]].
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Great Depression]]: [[New Deal]]: US President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] unveils the [[Civil Works Administration]], an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed. 
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Spanish Civil War]]: [[Francoist Spain|Francoist]] troops fail in their effort to capture [[Madrid]], but begin the three-year [[Siege of Madrid]] afterwards.
*[[1937]] &ndash; The [[Nazism|Nazi]] exhibition ''[[The Eternal Jew (art exhibition)|Der ewige Jude]]'' ("The Eternal Jew") opens in [[Munich]].
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Venlo Incident]]: Two British agents of [[Secret Intelligence Service|SIS]] are captured by the Germans.
*  1939   &ndash; In [[Munich]], [[Adolf Hitler]] narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of [[Georg Elser]] while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the [[Beer Hall Putsch]].
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[Greco-Italian War]]: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the [[Battle of Elaia–Kalamas]].
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[French Resistance]] coup in [[Algiers]], in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize [[Vichy France|Vichyist]] XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of [[Operation Torch]] in Algiers.
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Korean War]]: [[United States Air Force]] Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an [[F-80 Shooting Star]], shoots down two [[North Korea]]n [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15|MiG-15]]s in the first [[jet aircraft]]-to-jet aircraft [[dogfight]] in history.
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Pan Am Flight 7]] disappears between [[San Francisco]] and [[Honolulu]]. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
*  1957   &ndash; [[Operation Grapple#Grapple X (1 test)|Operation Grapple X, Round C1]]: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful [[hydrogen bomb]] test over [[Kiritimati]] in the Pacific.
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[John F. Kennedy]] is [[1960 United States presidential election|elected]] as the 35th President of the United States, defeating incumbent [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]], who would later be elected president in [[1968 United States presidential election|1968]]  and [[1972 United States presidential election|1972]].
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Finnair]]'s [[Aero Flight 217]] crashes near [[Mariehamn Airport]] in [[Jomala]], [[Åland]], killing 22 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47A-35-DL (DC-3) OH-LCA Mariehamn Airport (MHQ)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19631108-0|access-date=2021-11-08|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1965]] &ndash; The [[British Indian Ocean Territory]] is created, consisting of [[Chagos Archipelago]], [[Aldabra]], [[Farquhar Group|Farquhar]] and [[Des Roches]] islands.
*  1965   &ndash; The [[Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965]] is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom for almost all crimes.
*  1965   &ndash; The [[173rd Airborne]] is ambushed by over 1,200 [[Viet Cong]] in [[Operation Hump]] during the [[Vietnam War]], while the [[1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment]] fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the [[Battle of Gang Toi]].
*  1965   &ndash; [[American Airlines Flight 383 (1965)|American Airlines Flight 383]] crashes in [[Constance, Kentucky]], killing 58.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 727-23 N1996 Cincinnati-Greater Cincinnati, OH|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19651108-3|access-date=2021-11-07|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1966]] &ndash; Former [[Massachusetts]] Attorney General [[Edward Brooke]] becomes the first [[African American]] [[1966 United States Senate election in Massachusetts|elected]] to the [[United States Senate]] since [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstruction]].
*  1966   &ndash; U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs into law an [[antitrust]] exemption allowing the [[National Football League]] to [[AFL–NFL merger|merge]] with the upstart [[American Football League]]. 
*[[1968]] &ndash; The [[Vienna Convention on Road Traffic]] is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
*[[1972]] &ndash; American pay television network [[HBO|Home Box Office (HBO)]] launches.
*[[1973]] &ndash; The right ear of [[John Paul Getty III]] is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9&nbsp;million.
*[[1977]] &ndash; [[Manolis Andronikos]], a Greek archaeologist and professor at the [[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]], discovers the tomb of [[Philip II of Macedon]] at [[Vergina]].
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Aeroméxico Flight 110]] crashes near [[Zihuatanejo]], Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 XA-DEO Zihuatanejo|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19811108-1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-01|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101162534/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19811108-1 |archive-date=Nov 1, 2021 }}</ref>
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462]] crashes after takeoff from [[Lubango Airport]] killing all 130 people on board. [[UNITA]] claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19831108-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-2M2 D2-TBN Lubango Airport (SDD)|last=Ranter|first=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=2019-10-12}}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Remembrance Day bombing]]: A [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] bomb explodes in [[Enniskillen]], [[Northern Ireland]] during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
*[[1988]] &ndash; U.S. [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] is [[1988 United States presidential election|elected]] as the 41st president.
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Republican Revolution]]: On the night of the [[1994 United States elections|1994 United States midterm elections]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of [[United States Congress|Congress]] (54 seats in the [[United States House of Representatives|House]] and eight seats in the [[United States Senate|Senate]], additionally), thus bringing to a close four decades of [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] domination.
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Eritrea]] adopts the [[Eritrean nakfa|nakfa]] as its official currency.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Origins of the 1998-2000 Border War – ASENA TV |url=https://asenatv.com/the-origins-of-the-1998-2000-border-war/ |access-date=2024-02-25 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife [[Sharee Miller]], who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[UN Security Council Resolution 1441]]: The [[United Nations Security Council]] unanimously approves a resolution on [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]], forcing [[Saddam Hussein]] to [[disarmament|disarm]] or face "serious consequences".
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Iraq War]]: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of [[Iraq]]i army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of [[Fallujah]].
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|Israeli-Palestinian conflict]]: The [[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli Defense Force]] kill 19 [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] civilians in their homes during the [[2006 shelling of Beit Hanoun|shelling of Beit Hanoun]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/08/israel2|title=Children among 19 killed by Israeli tank fire|last1=Urquhart|first1=Conal|last2=McCarthy|first2=Rory|date=2006-11-08|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-10-30}}</ref>
*[[2011]] &ndash; The [[potentially hazardous asteroid]] [[2005 YU55]] passes 0.85 [[lunar distance (astronomy)|lunar distance]]s from Earth (about {{convert|324600|km|disp=or}}), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its [[Absolute magnitude#Solar system|brightness]] since {{mpl|2010 XC|15}} in 1976.
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Typhoon Haiyan]], one of the [[List of tropical cyclone records|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&nbsp;billion (2013 [[US dollar|USD]]; equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|2860000000|2013}}}} in {{inflation/year|US}}{{inflation/fn|US}}) in damage.
*[[2016]] &ndash; Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly announces [[2016 Indian banknote demonetisation|the withdrawal]] of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Business Today |title=The Dash of Cash |date=11 December 2022 |page=35 |first1=Teena |last1=Jain Kaushal |volume=31 |issue=25 |url=https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/economy/story/cash-is-still-king-with-currency-in-circulation-touching-a-new-high-in-october-354200-2022-11-25 |access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>
*  2016   &ndash; [[Donald Trump]] is [[2016 United States presidential election|elected]] the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|45th]] President of the United States, defeating [[Hillary Clinton]], the first woman ever to receive a major party's [[2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries|nomination]].
*[[2020]] &ndash; Myanmar holds the [[2020 Myanmar general election|2020 general election]], re-electing a government led by the [[National League for Democracy]], which is deposed by the [[Tatmadaw|Burmese military]] the following February during the [[2021 Myanmar coup d'état]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goodman |first1=Jack |date=5 February 2021 |title=Myanmar coup: Does the army have evidence of voter fraud? |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/55918746 |access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref>