| 127411 | November 8 | Event | 1965 – 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 |
| 127412 | November 8 | Event | 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction. |
| 127413 | November 8 | Event | 1966 – 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. |
| 127414 | November 8 | Event | 1968 – 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. |
| 127415 | November 8 | Event | 1972 – HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda. |
| 127416 | November 8 | Event | 1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million. |
| 127417 | November 8 | Event | 1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated. |
| 127418 | November 8 | Event | 1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. |
| 127419 | November 8 | Event | 1987 – Remembrance Day bombing: A 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. |
| 127420 | November 8 | Event | 2002 – 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". |
| 127421 | November 8 | Event | 2004 – 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. |
| 127422 | November 8 | Event | 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. |
| 127423 | November 8 | Event | 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 S$2.86 billion (USD) in damage. |
| 127424 | November 8 | Birth | 30 – Nerva, Roman emperor (d. 98) |
| 127425 | November 8 | Birth | 1342 – Julian of Norwich, English mystic and saint (d. 1416) |
| 127426 | November 8 | Birth | 1491 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian monk and poet (d. 1544) |
| 127427 | November 8 | Birth | 1622 – Charles X Gustav of Sweden (d. 1660) |
| 127428 | November 8 | Birth | 1656 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742) |
| 127429 | November 8 | Birth | 1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772) |
| 127430 | November 8 | Birth | 1710 – Sarah Fielding, English author (d. 1768) |
| 127431 | November 8 | Birth | 1715 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (d. 1797) |
| 127432 | November 8 | Birth | 1723 – John Byron, English admiral and politician, 24th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1786) |
| 127433 | November 8 | Birth | 1725 – Johann George Tromlitz, German flute player and composer (d. 1805) |
| 127434 | November 8 | Birth | 1763 – Otto Wilhelm Masing, German-Estonian linguist and clergyman (d. 1832) |
| 127435 | November 8 | Birth | 1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1840) |
| 127436 | November 8 | Birth | 1772 – William Wirt, United States Attorney General (d. 1834) |
| 127437 | November 8 | Birth | 1777 – Désirée Clary, French wife of Charles XIV John of Sweden (d. 1860) |
| 127438 | November 8 | Birth | 1788 – Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene poet and educator (d. 1853) |
| 127439 | November 8 | Birth | 1831 – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General of India (d. 1880) |
| 127440 | November 8 | Birth | 1836 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (d. 1911) |