About October 8
October 8, 2024 is the 282nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 113 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 8
- 314 –Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories.
- 1645 –Jeanne Mance opened the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first lay hospital in North America.
- 1821 –The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
- 1860 –Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
- 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 –Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.
- 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.
- 1895 –Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
- 1921 –KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
- 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.
- 1967 –Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- 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”.
- 1973 –Greek military junta of 1967–1974: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
- 1974 –Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
- 1978 –Australia’s Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
- 1982 –Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
- 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.
- 2001 –A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
- 2001 –U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
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