About October 8
October 8, 2025 is the 281st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 132 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 8
- 451 –At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1).
- 1200 –Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.
- 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 results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde.
- 1600 –San Marino adopts its written constitution.
- 1829 –Rail transport: Stephenson’s The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
- 1856 –The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
- 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.
- 1904 –Edmonton, Alberta was incorporated as a city.
- 1912 –First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
- 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.
- 1952 –The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
- 1969 –The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
- 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.
- 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 –Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, making the country fully independent
- 1998 –Oslo’s Gardermoen airport opens after the close down of Fornebu airport.
- 2005 –2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
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