Today in History - History - October 8th

2003Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon win the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes

1917Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control

1995Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record

1971John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"

1964Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test

1981President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral

1835Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle

197913th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell wins

1862Otto Von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire

1993Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"

1980Nick Cannon, San Diego, California, American actor and rapper (Love Don't Cost a Thing)

1943R. L. Stine, Columbus, Ohio, children's book writer (Goosebumps)

1948Johnny Ramone [Cummings], Long Island, New York, American rock guitarist (Ramones)

1970Matt Damon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean's trilogy, Bourne trilogy)

1824Salt Lake City founder Brigham Young (23) weds first wife Miriam Angeline Works (18) in Port Byron, New York

1934South Korean President Syngman Rhee (59) weds Francesca Donner (34)

1793John Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence), dies at 56

2011Al Davis, American football executive, dies at 82