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National Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada)

Name: National Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada)
Start: 2000-11-08
End: 2000-11-08
Location: Histories Today Editorial Team

On November 8, in the year 0, National Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada). This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of November 8, a notable event in this corner of history.

National Indigenous Veterans Day is a memorial day observed in Canada in recognition of aboriginal contributions to military service, particularly in the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. It occurs annually on 8 November. The day was first commemorated in 1993 in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1994, and officially enshrined in Manitoba law in 2025. Indigenous veterans had to overcome many obstacles to serve Canada in these wars, including adjusting to new cultures, sometimes learning to speak new languages and travelling long distances to enlist, in addition to being forcibly enfranchised once they returned from war.

Key Facts

This event took place on November 8, 0 (AD era).
It is categorised as a Holidays event in recorded history.
Referenced in 2 Wikipedia articles.
Wikipedia source last updated on 17 November 2025.

On This Date in History

Type	Year	Date	Event
Notable Deaths	2025	Nov 8	Graham Richardson, Australian politician (born 1949)
Notable Deaths	2024	Nov 8	Elizabeth Nunez, American novelist (born 1944)
Notable Deaths	2024	Nov 8	June Spencer, English actress (born 1919)
Notable Deaths	2024	Nov 8	Trevor Sorbie, Scottish hairdresser (born 1949)
Historical Events	2020	Nov 8	Myanmar holds the 2020 general election, re-electing a government led by the National League for Democracy, which is…
Notable Deaths	2020	Nov 8	Alex Trebek, Canadian-American television personality and longtime host of Jeopardy! (born 1940)
Selected Events	2020	Nov 8	Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijani forces defeated the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Battle of…
Notable Deaths	2018	Nov 8	Dennis Wrong, Canadian-born American sociologist (born 1923)
Historical Events	2017	Nov 8	The Louvre Abu Dhabi was inaugurated by the French president Emmanuel Macron and then-crown prince of Abu Dhabi…
Historical Events	2016	Nov 8	Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly announces the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes.
Historical Events	2016	Nov 8	Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever to…
Notable Deaths	2015	Nov 8	Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist, founded the Polk Museum of Art (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2015	Nov 8	Joseph Cure, American ice hockey player and actor (born 1984)
Notable Deaths	2015	Nov 8	Rod Davies, Australian-English astronomer and academic (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2015	Nov 8	Om Prakash Mehra, Indian air marshal and politician (born 1919)
Notable Deaths	2015	Nov 8	Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, Sri Lankan monk and activist (born 1942)
Notable Deaths	2014	Nov 8	Phil Crane, American academic and politician (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2014	Nov 8	Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier and pilot (born 1917)
Notable Deaths	2014	Nov 8	Don Paul, American football player and sportscaster (born 1925)
Notable Deaths	2014	Nov 8	Hugo Sánchez Portugal, Spanish-Mexican footballer and sportscaster (born 1984)
Notable Deaths	2014	Nov 8	Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician (born 1928)
Historical Events	2013	Nov 8	Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines;…
Notable Deaths	2013	Nov 8	William C. Davidon, American physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1927)
Notable Deaths	2013	Nov 8	Penn Kimball, American journalist and academic (born 1915)
Notable Deaths	2013	Nov 8	Arnold Rosner, American composer (born 1945)
Notable Deaths	2013	Nov 8	Chiyoko Shimakura, Japanese singer and actress (born 1938)
Notable Deaths	2013	Nov 8	Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam, Indian journalist and actor (born 1957)
Selected Events	2013	Nov 8	Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people, making it the…
Notable Deaths	2012	Nov 8	Lee MacPhail, American businessman (born 1917)
Notable Deaths	2012	Nov 8	Pete Namlook, German composer and producer (born 1960)
Notable Deaths	2012	Nov 8	Peggy Vaughan, American author (born 1936)
Historical Events	2011	Nov 8	The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or…
Notable Deaths	2011	Nov 8	Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (born 1967)
Notable Deaths	2011	Nov 8	Bil Keane, American cartoonist (born 1922)
Notable Deaths	2010	Nov 8	Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (born 1961)
Notable Deaths	2010	Nov 8	Jack Levine, American soldier and painter (born 1915)
Notable Deaths	2010	Nov 8	Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral (born 1925)
Notable Deaths	2009	Nov 8	Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
Notable Deaths	2007	Nov 8	Aad Nuis, Dutch journalist, poet, and politician (born 1933)
Notable Deaths	2007	Nov 8	Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (born 1943)
Notable Deaths	2007	Nov 8	Chad Varah, English priest, founded The Samaritans (born 1911)
Historical Events	2006	Nov 8	Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the…
Notable Deaths	2006	Nov 8	Basil Poledouris, American composer and conductor (born 1945)
Notable Deaths	2006	Nov 8	Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist and academic (born 1941)
Notable Deaths	2005	Nov 8	Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (born 1928)
Notable Deaths	2005	Nov 8	David Westheimer, American soldier and author (born 1917)
Historical Events	2004	Nov 8	Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent…
Notable Births	2004	Nov 8	Ilyas Ansah, German footballer
Notable Deaths	2004	Nov 8	Peter Mathers, English-Australian author and playwright (born 1931)
Notable Deaths	2003	Nov 8	Bob Grant, English actor and screenwriter (born 1932)