Friday November 8, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, month, and days ago
  • month since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • week ago
  • The year is a leap year

Historical Event(s)

Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
American Civil War: The “Trent Affair” – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
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 Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
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.

Who were born on ?

Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925)
Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974)
Chris Connor, American jazz singer (d. 2009)
Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer (d. 1990)
Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
Penny Heyns, South African swimmer
Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor

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