Notable Historical Events on October 8th
October 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
314 |
Battle at Cibalae: Roman emperor in the west Constantine beats emperor in the eas tLicinius |
451 |
Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens |
876 |
Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare |
1075 |
Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia. |
1085 |
San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated |
1480 |
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. |
1492 |
Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico |
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 |
Turkish troops occupy Belgrade |
1712 |
French privateer Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast |
1740 |
Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia |
1769 |
Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand (Poverty Bay) |
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 Bayern & Austria |
1815 |
Joachim Murat's forces land at Pizzo, Italy |
1818 |
Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves |
1821 |
The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy. |
1822 |
First eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley |
1835 |
Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle |
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 |
1862 |
Otto Von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire |
1865 |
Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains |
1871 |
Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin |
1871 |
Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of Chicago buildings, & 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 |
1892 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow |
1895 |
Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms |
1896 |
Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks |
1897 |
Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of 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 WWI, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed |
1915 |
Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally |
1917 |
Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control |
1918 |
American soldier Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans |
1922 |
NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series |
1924 |
British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald falls to Conservatives |
1927 |
NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series |
1927 |
Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation) |
1928 |
Cole Porter & 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/drives out H Ghazi |
1930 |
Phila 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 |
1934 |
Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh's son |
1938 |
G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid" premieres in NYC |
1939 |
Germany annexes Western Poland |
1939 |
NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win |
1940 |
Cin 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) |
1942 |
Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show |
1943 |
Great Britain establishes bases on Azores |
1944 |
"Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio |
1944 |
Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto" premieres |
1945 |
US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada |
1946 |
Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China |
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 rail crash kills 112 people. |
1953 |
Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group |
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, 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 perfs |
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 |
1961 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
1961 |
US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR |
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 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. |
1963 |
Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya |
1964 |
Gilroy Roberts becomes first US chief engraver to retire (than die) |
1964 |
Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test |
1965 |
Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter |
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) |
1967 |
Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. |
1968 |
Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly Britsh 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 |
John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine" |
1971 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1972 |
"From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
1972 |
Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions |
1972 |
In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher |
1972 |
Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined & suspended |
1973 |
NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose & NY Met Bud Harrelson |
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. |
1976 |
Sex Pistols sign with EMI |
1977 |
Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant) |
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 |
"Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs |
1979 |
13th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell wins |
1979 |
J McHugh & A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies" premieres in NYC |
1980 |
After playing two shows at the Madison Square Garden, Bob Marley collapsed in Central Park while jogging, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital |
1980 |
British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro |
1980 |
USSR & Syria sign peace treaty |
1980 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1981 |
1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV |
1981 |
USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser |
1981 |
President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral |
1982 |
NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY 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 |
1984 |
18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
1985 |
"Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam |
1985 |
Alain Boubil/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 |
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 |
Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts" |
1993 |
UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa |
1994 |
BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill |
1995 |
Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record |
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. |
2001 |
U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. |
2001 |
A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118. |
2003 |
Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon win the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes |
2005 |
The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC. |
2012 |
35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri |
2012 |
Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term |
2012 |
Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament |
2012 |
John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent |
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 |
2016 |
US formally accuses Russian hackers of political cyber attacks |
2017 |
Nigeria first African country to qualify for 2018 soccer World Cup |
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