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Events on the 8th of October in history

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08 Oct 0314 Battle at Cibalae: Emperor Constantine beats Emperor Licinius
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08 Oct 0314 Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories.
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08 Oct 0451 Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
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08 Oct 0451 At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1).
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08 Oct 0876 Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare
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08 Oct 1075 Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
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08 Oct 1085 San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
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08 Oct 1200 Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.
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08 Oct 1322 Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, defeated in the battle of Bliska, is arrested by the Parliament.
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08 Oct 1480 Great stand 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.
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08 Oct 1573 End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years' War.
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08 Oct 1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
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08 Oct 1600 San Marino adopts constitution
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08 Oct 1600 San Marino adopts its written constitution.
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08 Oct 1633 Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government
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08 Oct 1645 Jeanne Mance opened the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first lay hospital in North America.
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08 Oct 1690 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
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08 Oct 1712 French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
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08 Oct 1740 Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia
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08 Oct 1775 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army
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08 Oct 1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
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08 Oct 1806 Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.
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08 Oct 1813 Treaty of Ried between Bayern and Austria
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08 Oct 1813 The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.
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08 Oct 1815 Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo Italy
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08 Oct 1818 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
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08 Oct 1821 The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
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08 Oct 1822 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
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08 Oct 1829 Rail transport: Stephenson's The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
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08 Oct 1835 HMS Beagle / Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago
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08 Oct 1840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
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08 Oct 1842 Princess Sophia weds her cousin Duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach
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08 Oct 1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
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08 Oct 1856 The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
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08 Oct 1860 Telegraph line between LA and SF opens
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08 Oct 1860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
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08 Oct 1862 Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted
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08 Oct 1862 Otto von Bismarck becomes German Republic chancellor
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08 Oct 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.
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08 Oct 1865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
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08 Oct 1871 Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
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08 Oct 1871 Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.
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08 Oct 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.
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08 Oct 1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" (BG)
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08 Oct 1887 Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
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08 Oct 1892 Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
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08 Oct 1895 Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
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08 Oct 1895 Eulmi incident: Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by Japanese infiltrators inside Gyeongbok Palace.
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08 Oct 1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
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08 Oct 1897 Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler Director of Opera
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08 Oct 1904 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
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08 Oct 1904 Edmonton, Alberta is incorporated as a city.
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08 Oct 1904 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan is incorporated as a city.
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08 Oct 1908 New York Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
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08 Oct 1909 Chicago Cubs beat the New York Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
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08 Oct 1912 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
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08 Oct 1912 Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
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08 Oct 1912 First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
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08 Oct 1915 Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed
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08 Oct 1915 Phillies win their 1st and only World Series game before 1980, beating
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08 Oct 1915 Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
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08 Oct 1917 Trotski named Chairman of Petrograd Soviet
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08 Oct 1918 Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
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08 Oct 1918 World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor.
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08 Oct 1921 KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
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08 Oct 1922 New York Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
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08 Oct 1924 British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Communists
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08 Oct 1927 New York Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
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08 Oct 1927 Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
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08 Oct 1928 Eastern Soccer League forms in US
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08 Oct 1928 Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
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08 Oct 1929 Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan / drives out H Ghazi
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08 Oct 1930 Philadelphia Athletics beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
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08 Oct 1932 The Indian Air Force is established.
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08 Oct 1933 Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
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08 Oct 1933 Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government
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08 Oct 1935 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)
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08 Oct 1939 Germany annexes Western Poland
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08 Oct 1939 New York Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
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08 Oct 1939 World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
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08 Oct 1940 Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
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08 Oct 1940 German troops occupies Romania
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08 Oct 1941 Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built
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08 Oct 1941 World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
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08 Oct 1942 Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
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08 Oct 1943 Great-Britain establishes bases on Azores
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08 Oct 1944 "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio
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08 Oct 1944 World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs just outside Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle.
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08 Oct 1945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
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08 Oct 1946 Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as President of China
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08 Oct 1946 Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
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08 Oct 1950 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
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08 Oct 1950 Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
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08 Oct 1951 "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
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08 Oct 1952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
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08 Oct 1952 Chinese offensive in Korea
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08 Oct 1952 The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
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08 Oct 1953 WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins
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08 Oct 1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
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08 Oct 1956 Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs. Brooklyn
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08 Oct 1956 New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series.
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08 Oct 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
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08 Oct 1957 Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes US Minister of Defense
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08 Oct 1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
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08 Oct 1957 Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire
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08 Oct 1958 Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
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08 Oct 1958 Dr Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker (Stockholm)
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08 Oct 1958 KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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08 Oct 1959 "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 performances
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08 Oct 1959 Conservatives win British election
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08 Oct 1959 LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
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08 Oct 1960 Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
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08 Oct 1961 US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die
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08 Oct 1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
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08 Oct 1962 Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuvre 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.
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08 Oct 1962 Algeria joins the United Nations.
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08 Oct 1963 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
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08 Oct 1964 Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die)
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08 Oct 1964 Ringo Starr takes and passes his driving test
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08 Oct 1965 Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter
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08 Oct 1965 Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
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08 Oct 1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
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08 Oct 1968 Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina
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08 Oct 1968 Vietnam War: Operation Sealords: United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
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08 Oct 1969 The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
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08 Oct 1970 Soviet Author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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08 Oct 1970 Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a manoeuvre to deceive world opinion".
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08 Oct 1971 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
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08 Oct 1972 "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 performances
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08 Oct 1972 Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
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08 Oct 1972 Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended
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08 Oct 1973 Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
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08 Oct 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.
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08 Oct 1973 Greek military junta of 1967–74: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
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08 Oct 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.
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08 Oct 1976 Sex Pistols sign with EMI
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08 Oct 1977 Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
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08 Oct 1978 Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 km/h)
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08 Oct 1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
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08 Oct 1978 Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
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08 Oct 1979 "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 performances
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08 Oct 1980 Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
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08 Oct 1980 British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
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08 Oct 1980 USSR and Syria sign peace treaty
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08 Oct 1981 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV
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08 Oct 1981 USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser
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08 Oct 1982 New Jersey Devils 1st victory, beating New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
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08 Oct 1982 Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
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08 Oct 1982 Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
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08 Oct 1983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
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08 Oct 1983 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to New York Islanders 8-7
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08 Oct 1984 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
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08 Oct 1985 "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
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08 Oct 1985 Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
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08 Oct 1986 Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
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08 Oct 1986 RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
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08 Oct 1988 Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
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08 Oct 1989 Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
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08 Oct 1990 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins
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08 Oct 1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
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08 Oct 1990 US doctors Joseph E Murray and E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
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08 Oct 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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08 Oct 1991 Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, rendering the country fully independent.
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08 Oct 1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies Poet Derek Walcott
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08 Oct 1992 Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game
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08 Oct 1992 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
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08 Oct 1993 Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
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08 Oct 1993 UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
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08 Oct 1995 Edgar Martinez drives home tying andwinning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees andwin AL Division Series
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08 Oct 2001 A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
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08 Oct 2001 U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
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08 Oct 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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