Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index October 8 is the 281st day of the year (282nd in leap years). There are 84 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays Events 451 - At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1). 1600 - San Marino adopts its written constitution. 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Perryville - Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky. 1871 - Great Chicago Fire: A large fire in Chicago, Illinois pre-empts news reporting of the Peshtigo, Wisconsin fire, burns 1,200,000 acres in one day, eventually destroys about 17,450 buildings, kills about 250 people and leaves another 90,000 homeless. 1871 - In Wisconsin, a forest fire starts to burn across six counties, eventually killing over 1,100 people. 1912 - First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey. 1918 - World War I - In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132. 1939 - World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland. 1941 - World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol. 1944 - The radio show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet debuts 1957 - Walter O'Malley announces that the Dodgers are going to move from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California 1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. 1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Sealords - United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta. 1970 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion." 1982 - Poland bans Solidarity. 1990 - 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 1991 - The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia 1998 - Oslo Airport Gardermoen opens. 2001 - American radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh announces to his listeners that he is completely deaf in his left ear and only has partial hearing in his right ear 2001 - A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118 Births 1765 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer 1887 - Huntley Gordon, pioneer Hollywood actor († 1956) 1890 - Edward Rickenbacker, ace fighter pilot († 1973) 1895 - Juan Perón, former president of Argentina († 1974) 1917 - Walter Lord, author († 2002) 1917 - Billy Conn, boxer († 1993) 1920 - Frank Herbert, American science fiction writer († 1986) 1922 - Christian Barnard, heart surgeon 1926 - Klaus Kinski, actor († 1991) 1930 - Toru Takemitsu, composer († 1996) 1938 - Fred Stolle, tennis champion 1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor 1940 - David Carradine, actor 1941 - Jesse Jackson, American reverend and civil rights activist 1943 - Chevy Chase, comedian, actor 1943 - R. L. Stine, author 1946 - Dennis Kucinich, Congressman and Presidential Candidate 1947 - Tony Wilson, bassist, singer 1948 - Johnny Ramone, guitarist 1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress 1950 - Robert Bell, bassist and singer with Kool & the Gang 1951 - Johnny Ramone, rock and roll musician 1954 - Michael Dudikoff, actor 1956 - Stephanie Zimbalist, actress 1964 - CeCe Winans, singer 1965 - Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian 1968 - Toni Braxton, singer 1970 - Matt Damon, actor 1976 - Renate Groenewold, Dutch speed skater Deaths 1754 - Henry Fielding, author 1793 - John Hancock, revolutionary, businessman 1869 - Franklin Pierce, President of the United States 1944 - Wendell Willkie, politician, candidate for President of the United States 1945 - Felix Salten, author (Bambi) 1953 - Nigel Bruce, actor 1967 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1982 - Fernando Lamas, actor 1992 - Willy Brandt, German politician 1996 - Mignon G. Eberhart, author Holidays Independence day in Croatia See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries October 7 - October 9 - September 8 - November 8 - more historical anniversaries This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.