About October 8
October 8, 2023 is the 281st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 125 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.
- 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.
- 1573 –End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years War.
- 1600 –San Marino adopts its written constitution.
- 1813 –The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bayern and Austria.
- 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.
- 1918 –World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
- 1939 –World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
- 1952 –The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
- 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.
- 1967 –Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1998 –Oslo’s Gardermoen airport opens after the close down of Fornebu airport.
- 2001 –U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
- 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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