About October 8
October 8, 2020 is the 282nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 127 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 8
- 1573 –End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years War.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1813 –The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bayern and Austria.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1895 –Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
- 1904 –Edmonton, Alberta was incorporated as a city.
- 1904 –Prince Albert, Saskatchewan was incorporated as a city.
- 1912 –First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
- 1932 –The Indian Air Force is established.
- 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.
- 1962 –Algeria joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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