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| November 8th, 2004 | Event | War in Iraq: 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. |
| November 8th, 2002 | Event | Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". |
| November 8th, 1989 | Event | Hong Kong s MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service. |
| November 8th, 1987 | Event | Remembrance Day Bombing: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain s war dead, killing twelve people. |
| November 8th, 1979 | Event | The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed. |
| November 8th, 1977 | Event | Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. |
| November 8th, 1976 | Event | A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated. |
| November 8th, 1973 | Event | The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD. |
| November 8th, 1966 | Event | Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate. |
| November 8th, 1966 | Event | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. |
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