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.
- 1075 –Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
- 1573 –End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years War.
- 1645 –Jeanne Mance opened the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first lay hospital in North America.
- 1813 –The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bayern and Austria.
- 1829 –Rail transport: Stephenson’s The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
- 1956 –New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 20 perfect games in MLB history.
- 1962 –Algeria joins the United Nations.
- 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 is soon accused of treason.
- 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 –Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir’s armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
- 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.
- 2001 –A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
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