Historical Events on October 8

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• 451 Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
• 876 Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bald
• 1075 Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.
• 1085 San Marcos ministry in Venice initiated

• 1600 San Marino adopts constitution
• 1604 Supernova "Kepler's nova" first sighted
• 1625 Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz
• 1633 Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government
• 1690 Siege of Belgrade, Ottoman troops capture Belgrade
• 1712 French privateer Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
• 1740 Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia

• 1775 Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army

• 1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
• 1813 Treaty of Ried between Bavaria & Austria
• 1815 Joachim Murat's forces land at Pizzo, Italy
• 1818 Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves

• 1822 First eruption of Galunggung in Java sends boiling sludge into valley
• 1827 Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
• 1840 First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
• 1856 The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River
• 1860 Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
• 1862 Battle of Perryville, KY- Confederate invasion halted

• 1865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
• 1871 Forest fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin, killing between 1,200 and 2,500 people, making it the deadliest wildfire in recorded history
• 1871 Great Fire of Chicago kills 200 people and destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation
• 1873 First women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
• 1879 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.
• 1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" (BG)
• 1887 Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
• 1888 British Open Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jack Burns wins his lone Open title by 1 stroke from Ben Sayers and David Anderson Jr
• 1892 Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
• 1895 Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
• 1897 Emperor Franz Joseph I names Gustav Mahler Director of the Vienna Court Opera
• 1898 First Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
• 1903 J M Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen" premieres in Dublin


• 1904 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
• 1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates first 'permanent wave' for hair in London
• 1908 NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
• 1909 Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
• 1912 Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
• 1915 Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)
• 1915 Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally

• 1922 NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series

• 1927 NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series

• 1928 Cole Porter and E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris" premieres in NYC
• 1928 Eastern Soccer League forms in USA
• 1928 Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
• 1929 A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs
• 1929 Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan and drives out Habibullah Ghazi
• 1930 Philadelphia A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
• 1932 The Indian Air Force is established.
• 1933 Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters
• 1933 Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government

• 1939 Germany annexes Western Poland
• 1939 NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
• 1940 Cincinnati Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
• 1940 German troops occupies Romania
• 1941 Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins
• 1942 Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)

• 1943 Great Britain establishes bases on Azores
• 1944 "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio

• 1945 Microwave oven patented
• 1946 Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
• 1950 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
• 1950 Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
• 1951 "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
• 1951 Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League
• 1952 Chinese offensive in Korea
• 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone, northwest London, 112 people killed in Britain's worst peace-time rail crash.

• 1953 WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins
• 1955 World's most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched
• 1956 Don Larsen (NY Yankees) pitches only perfect World Series game vs Brooklyn
• 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
• 1957 Procter & Gamble director N McElroy becomes US Secretary of Defense
• 1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
• 1957 Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
• 1958 Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
• 1958 Dr Ake Senning installs first pacemaker (Stockholm)
• 1958 KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1959 "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 performances
• 1959 Conservatives win British general election
• 1959 LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
• 1960 Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
• 1960 3rd Rugby League World Cup: Great Britain beats Australia 10-3
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
• 1961 12th Formula One WDC: Phil Hill wins by one point
• 1961 American Phil Hill's Ferrari team does not participate in season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; already clinched World Championship of Drivers title; English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus' first ever Grand Prix
• 1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
• 1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party
• 1962 Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", uncovering sorry state of West German army. Magazine soon accused of treason.
• 1963 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
• 1964 Gilroy Roberts becomes first US chief engraver to retire (than die)

• 1965 Muslims in Jakarta set fire to PKI headquarters


• 1965 Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England
• 1965 Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
• 1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1966 Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)

• 1968 Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly British HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina
• 1969 The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1970 Soviet author Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1970 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) propose that a system of Proportional Representation (PR) should be used in elections in Northern Ireland

• 1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1972 "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 performances
• 1972 Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
• 1972 In Game 2 of ALCS, Oakland A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
• 1972 Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined & suspended
• 1972 Despite retiring with suspension trouble at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, Emerson Fittipaldi becomes first Brazilian to win the World Formula 1 Drivers title; wins by 16 points from Jackie Stewart

• 1973 Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
• 1973 OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail.
• 1974 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.
• 1975 San Antonio Spurs, then members of the ABA, defeat the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, 109-107 in the first basketball game ever played in the Louisiana Superdome

• 1977 Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
• 1977 MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 1
• 1978 Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
• 1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City

• 1979 J McHugh & A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 performances

• 1980 British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
• 1980 USSR & Syria sign peace treaty
• 1980 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1981 USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser

• 1982 New Jersey Devils 1st NHL victory; beat New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
• 1982 Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
• 1983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
• 1983 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
• 1983 MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 games to 1


• 1983 MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox, 3 games to 1
• 1984 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
• 1984 NBC's premiere of TV made "The Burning Bed", based on Francine Hughes
• 1985 "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
• 1985 Alain Boubil and Herbert Kretzner's "Les Miserables" premieres in London
• 1985 Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
• 1986 Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
• 1986 RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
• 1988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
• 1988 Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
• 1989 Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
• 1989 MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 1
• 1990 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins
• 1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
• 1990 US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
• 1991 The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
• 1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
• 1992 Ottawa Senators 1st NHL game
• 1992 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus

• 1993 UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
• 1994 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill

• 1995 Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
• 1998 Oslo Gardermoen airport opening after the close down of Fornebu.

• 1999 New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
• 2000 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Loch Lomond GC: Europe regains Cup 14½-11½; Carin Koch holes winning putt, coming back from 3 down to beat Michele Redman
• 2000 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka to clinch his 3rd, and 1st of 5 straight World F1 Drivers Championships

• 2001 A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.

• 2005 The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.

• 2011 Irish professional darts player Brendan Dolan plays 1st perfect 9 dart game on TV in semi-final against James Wade at PDC World Darts Championship in Dublin
• 2012 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri

• 2012 Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament

• 2013 Peter Higgs and François Englert win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles
• 2014 The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
• 2014 Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
• 2015 Nobel prize for Literature awarded to Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich

• 2016 140 people are killed in an air strike during a wake in Sanaa, Yemen
• 2016 New Zealand routs South Africa, 57-14 in Durban to win their 4th Rugby Championship; undefeated All Blacks score 9 tries to 1, 2 each to Israel Dagg, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett
• 2017 Wildfires ignite in Northern Californian wine country, killing at least 41 over the next week, with 20,000 evacutated

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