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Yeah, but the miracle part is the reason for the holiday. That there was enough oil for one day but it lasted 8.
Purim is actually just based on history (or at least what we believe to be history, it does have secondary support)- The Persian Achaemenid Empire was going to wipe out the Jews in the empire at the behest of Haman, the Grand Vizier, but is foiled by Esther, who is married to the King and is secretly Jewish, and her cousin Mordecai. Then the King says, "oh, he was going to wipe out the Jews? Well, you guys now get to kill all of his sons and also anyone else you feel like" and then the Jewish Persians killed thousands of other Persians. The king was fine with it.
So I guess hooray?