Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 8
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Don Larsen baseball card
Cosette from Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Battle of Angamos
The Great Chicago Fire
Downtown Edmonton skyline
Lithograph depicting the Great Chicago Fire
Remnant of Kepler's Supernova
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Navy Day in Peru (1821); | unreferenced section |
| Independence Day in Croatia (1991) | it looks like it's been moved to 25 June and article has been amended thus |
| 1076 – Demetrius Zvonimir, the last native king who exerted any real power over the entire Croatian state, was crowned. | ambiguous date |
| 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême was crowned queen consort of England at the age of twelve, after having married King John two weeks earlier. | close, but not quite (several uncited paragraphs that don't have CN tags yet) |
| 1600 – San Marino, the world's oldest constitutional republic, adopted its written constitution. | refimprove |
| 1604 – Kepler's Supernova (remnant pictured), the most recent supernova in the Milky Way, was observed worldwide. | Date not cited in article |
| 1821 – The Peruvian Navy was established by the government of José de San Martín. | unreferenced section |
| 1856 – Officials of the Chinese Qing dynasty arrested and imprisoned twelve people aboard the Hong Kong-registered ship Arrow for suspected piracy and smuggling, sparking the Second Opium War. | many {{cn}} tags (24) |
| 1862 – The Battle of Perryville, a battle of the American Civil War with a high casualty count, was fought west of Perryville, Kentucky. | Uncited paragraphs |
| 1879 – The Chilean Navy defeated the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, a decisive encounter during the War of the Pacific. | refimprove |
| 1895 – Myeongseong, the only empress of Korea, was assassinated. | multiple issues |
| 1904 – The Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta (Downtown Edmonton pictured), was incorporated. | lots of cn |
| 1985 – The musical Les Misérables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, opened in London's Barbican Centre, starting its run as the longest-running West End musical in history. | refimprove section |
| 2001 – In response to the September 11 attacks, U.S. president George W. Bush announced the creation of the Office of Homeland Security, with former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge as its director. | unreferenced sections |
| 2005 – A major earthquake centered in Kashmir killed over 74,500 people and injured at least 106,000 others in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. | unreferenced section |
| Pilgrim I |d|923| | Uncited death date |
| Mary Beale |bur|1699| | Burial date uncited (as the death date is known, it's unclear why buried is being featured). Other citation needed tags |
| Yongzheng Emperor |d|1735| | Too much uncited |
| William John Swainson |b|1789| | unreferenced section |
| Kikunae Ikeda |b|1864| | Birthday not cited |
| Felipe Camiroaga |b|1966 | unreferenced section |
| Malcolm Ross |d|1985| | Too much uncited |
| Willy Brandt |d|1992| | Too much uncited |
| George Emil Palade |d|2008| | Not cited in article |
Eligible
- 451 – The Council of Chalcedon, a Christian ecumenical council, opened, and went on to repudiate the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
- 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire (pictured), began and proceeded to destroy much of the city's central business district, killing 300 people and leaving 90,000 others homeless.
- 1918 – World War I: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the Meuse–Argonne offensive in France's Forest of Argonne, American Corporal Alvin York led the 7 remaining men on an attack against a German machine gun nest; 25 German soldiers were killed and 132 captured.
- 1932 – The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of the British Royal Air Force.
- 1956 – Major League Baseball pitcher Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in World Series history.
- 1967 – Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
- 1998 – A new airport for Oslo, Norway, opened at Gardermoen, replacing a smaller one at the same location that had served as a backup to the city's previous main airport at Fornebu.
- 2001 – At Linate Airport in Milan, Italy, Scandinavian Airlines Flight SK686 collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation II business jet, killing 118 people.
- 2016 – Yemen War: A funeral in Sanaa was hit by two consecutive airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition, leaving 143–155 civilians dead and more than 525 injured.
- Born/died:| Xiao Sagezhi |d|951| Edward Wright|bap.|1561| John Hancock |d|1793| Harriet Taylor Mill |b|1807| Augustus Buchel |b|1813| John Hay |b|1838| Franklin Pierce |d|1869| Ellen Wilkinson |b|1891| Kiichi Miyazawa |b|1919| Nils Liedholm |b|1922| James Holshouser |b|1934| Chevy Chase |b|1943| Wendell Willkie |d|1944| Kanae Yamamoto |d|1946| Ursula von der Leyen |b|1958| Rano Karno |b|1960| Zvonimir Boban |b|1968| Jenova Chen |b|1981| Philip Noel-Baker |d|1982| Bruno Mars |b|1985| Aya Hirano |b|1987| Garbiñe Muguruza |b|1993| Josh Kerr |b|1997| Charlotte Lamb |d|2000| Varsha Bhosle |d|2012| Marilou Diaz-Abaya |d|2012| Paul Prudhomme |d|2015| Whitey Ford |d|2020|
Wreckage from the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Perryville was fought west of Perryville, Kentucky.
- 1952 – Three trains collided (aftermath pictured) at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London, killing 112 people and injuring 340 others.
- 1969 – Demonstrations organized by the Weather Underground known as the Days of Rage began in Chicago, aimed at ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1995 – The Croatian Army and Croatian Defence Council launched Operation Southern Move, their last offensive in the Bosnian War.
- 2019 – Anti-government protests calling for free and fair elections began in Baku, Azerbaijan.
- Mark Oliphant (b. 1901)
- Sadiq Khan (b. 1970)
- Zheng Qinwen (b. 2002)
- Pannir Selvam Pranthaman (d. 2025)