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- 1889
- In the United States, Montana Territory gains a small remnant of Dakota Territory that remained between Montana and Wyoming territories.
- 1908
- Kamarah station opens as Bygee station along the Temora–Roto line in New South Wales.
- 1943
- In London, the North London Railway's Victoria Park station closes after 77 years in operation.
- 1947
- Osan township is established in Iksan, South Korea.
- 1961
- Residents of Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood are evicted as part of a slum clearance initiative and the construction of the Chrysler Freeway.
- 2013
- A telephone booth in Gladbeck, Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is destroyed by a car and removed.
- 2021
- A Saizeriya restaurant in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, closes after 17 years in business.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on November 8, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on November 8 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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