The 8t o October is the 281st day o the year (282nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 84 days bidin.
Events
1871 : Great Chicago Fire 1974 : Banner o Baja California Sur A woman an bairn at a destroyed house efter the 2005 Pakistan yirdquauk . 1075 - Dimitar Zvonimir is crouned King o Croatie .1600 - San Marino adopts its aen constitution.1814 - First election tae the Norse Storting (Pairlament ).1860 - In Californie , the first telegraph linkin Los Angeles tae San Francisco opens.1871 - The Great Fire o Chicago stairts. On the semme day, 1,200 fowk are kilt in a massive forest fire in the state o Wisconsin .1904 - Edmonton , Alberta , is incorporatit as a ceety.1932 - Indie 's Air Force is creatit.1939 - Warld War II : Germany annexes Wastren Poland .1952 - The Harrow an Weald train crash northwast o Lunnon kills 112 fowk.1962 - Algerie jyns the Unitit Naitions .1967 - Che Guevara , Communist revolutionary, is captured in Bolivie , a day afore bein executit.1974 - Baja California Sur becomes a state o Mexico .1990 - Israeli polis kill 17 Palestinians and woond ower 100 near the Dome o the Rock.1991 - Croatie declares unthirldom frae Yugoslavie .2001 - Twa planes collide in thick fog shortly efter tak-aff frae Milan , Italy , killin 118 fowk.2004 - Wangari Maathai wins the Nobel Peace Prize .2005 - The north o Pakistan is hit bi a strang yirdquauk , killin 1,000s o fowk.2010 - Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize .2013 - Peter Higgs an Francois Englert win the Nobel Prize in Pheesics for the discovery o the Higgs boson .2015 - Svetlana Alexievich o Belarus wins the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur .2018 - In a special report, the Intergovrenmental Panel on Climate Chynge says that "rapid, far-reachin an unprecedentit chynges in aw aspects o society" are needed tae keep global wairmin below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Births
Sigourney Weaver 1712 - Alison Cockburn , Scots poet (d. 1794 )1850 - Henry Louis Le Chatelier , French chemist (d. 1936 )1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg , German pheesiologist an medicinar (d. 1970 )1890 - Arthur Landsborough Thomson , Scots ornithologist (d. 1977 )1895 - Juan Perón , Preses o Argentinae (d. 1974 )1895 - King Zog I o Albanie (d. 1961 )1918 - Jens Christian Skou , Dens chemist an pheesiologist (d. 2018 )1919 - Kiichi Miyazawa , Prime meenister o Japan (d. 2007 )1929 - Betty Boothroyd , Inglis politeecian1931 - Bill Brown , Scots fitbawer (d. 2004 )1941 - Jesse Jackson , American pastor an activist1946 - Colin Jackson , Scots fitbawer (d. 2015 )1946 - Dennis Kucinich , American politeecian1949 - Sigourney Weaver , American actress1951 - Graham Shaw , Scots fitbawer1958 - Ursula von der Leyen , German politeecian1965 - Dougie McDonald , Scots fitbaw referee1970 - Matt Damon , American actor1970 - David Duguid , Scots politeecian1970 - Sadiq Khan , Inglis politeecian, Mayor o Lunnon 1971 - David Gauke , Inglis politeecian1971 - Michelle Mone, Baroness Mone , Scots entrepreneur an peer1979 - Kristanna Loken , American actress1983 - Michael Fraser , Scots fitbawer1985 - Bruno Mars , American sangster1993 - Garbiñe Muguruza , Spaingie tennis player
Daiths
1754 - Henry Fielding , Inglis writer (b. 1707 )1793 - John Hancock , American politeecian (b. 1737 )1809 - James Elphinston , Scots eddicator, ornithologist, phonologist an linguistics expert (b. 1721 )1862 - James Walker , Scots ceevil ingineer (b. 1781 )1869 - Franklin Pierce , 14t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1804 )1967 - Clement Attlee , Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1883 )1982 - Philip Noel-Baker , Inglis peace activist (b. 1889 )1992 - Willy Brandt , Chancellor o Wast Germany (b. 1913 )2004 - Jacques Derrida , French philosopher (b. 1930 )
Halidays
Banner o Croatie Independence Day (Croatie )
Navy Day (Peru )
Children's Day (Iran )
Air Force Day (Indie )
The 8t o October is the eat day o the follaein saunts: St. Keyne
St. Pelagia
St. Amor o Aquitaine
St. Badilo
St. Benedicta
St. Ywi
St. Thais
St. Triduna
St. Demetrius
St. Reparata
St. Martin Cid
St. Nestor Bl. Matthew de Eskandely
St. Palatias an Laurentia
Bl. Peter o Seville
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