October 8 Events |
Read about how to open files in Open File Database. |
| October 8th, 2005 (October 08 2005) | Event | The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC. | |
| October 8th, 2001 (October 08 2001) | Event | A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118. | |
| October 8th, 2001 (October 08 2001) | Event | U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. | George W. Bush Quotes |
| October 8th, 1999 (October 08 1999) | Event | New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar. | |
| October 8th, 1998 (October 08 1998) | Event | Oslo Gardermoen airport opening after the close down of Fornebu. | |
| October 8th, 1991 (October 08 1991) | Event | The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia | |
| October 8th, 1990 (October 08 1990) | Event | Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount | The Rock Quotes |
| October 8th, 1982 (October 08 1982) | Event | Poland bans Solidarity. | |
| October 8th, 1978 (October 08 1978) | Event | Australia s Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia. | |
| October 8th, 1974 (October 08 1974) | Event | Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. | |
| October 8th, 1973 (October 08 1973) | Event | Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir s armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed. | |
| October 8th, 1970 (October 08 1970) | Event | Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon s October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion." | |
| October 8th, 1969 (October 08 1969) | Event | The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois. | |
| October 8th, 1968 (October 08 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: Operation SealordsUnited States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta. | |
| October 8th, 1967 (October 08 1967) | Event | Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. | |
| October 8th, 1962 (October 08 1962) | Event | Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany s army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason. | |
| October 8th, 1952 (October 08 1952) | Event | Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people. | |
| October 8th, 1944 (October 08 1944) | Event | The Battle of Crucifix Hill, a World War II battle, occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside of Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle. | |
| October 8th, 1941 (October 08 1941) | Event | World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol. | |
| October 8th, 1939 (October 08 1939) | Event | World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland. | |
| October 8th, 1932 (October 08 1932) | Event | The Indian Air Force is established. | |
| October 8th, 1928 (October 08 1928) | Event | Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casella s Violin Concerto. | |
| October 8th, 1918 (October 08 1918) | Event | World WarIn the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132. | |
| October 8th, 1912 (October 08 1912) | Event | First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey. | |
| October 8th, 1895 (October 08 1895) | Event | Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace. | |
| October 8th, 1879 (October 08 1879) | Event | War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter. | |
| October 8th, 1871 (October 08 1871) | Event | Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, having left nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire killed as many as 2,500 people making it the deadliest fire in United States history. | |
| October 8th, 1862 (October 08 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of PerryvilleUnion forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky. | |
| October 8th, 1856 (October 08 1856) | Event | The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River. | |
| October 8th, 1821 (October 08 1821) | Event | The government of general Jose de San Martin establishes the Peruvian Navy. | Jose de San Martin Quotes |
| October 8th, 1600 (October 08 1600) | Event | San Marino adopts its written constitution. | |
| October 8th, 1582 (October 08 1582) | Event | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. | |
| October 8th, 1480 (October 08 1480) | Event | Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde. | |
| October 8th, 1075 (October 08 1075) | Event | Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia. | |
| October 8th, 0451 (October 08 0451) | Event | At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1). | |
| October 8th, 0314 (October 08 0314) | Event | Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories. | |
