Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 8
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File:Chicago-fire1.jpg|The Great Chicago Fire
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| Navy Day in Peru (1821);
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| Independence Day in Croatia (1991)
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| 1076 – Demetrius Zvonimir, the last native king who exerted any real power over the entire Croatian state, was crowned.
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| 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême was crowned queen consort of England at the age of twelve, after having married King John two weeks earlier.
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| 1600 – San Marino, the world's oldest constitutional republic, adopted its written constitution.
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| 1821 – The Peruvian Navy was established by the government of José de San Martín.
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| 1862 – The Battle of Perryville, a battle of the American Civil War with a high casualty count, was fought west of Perryville, Kentucky.
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| 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.
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| 1879 – The Chilean Navy defeated the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, a decisive encounter during the War of the Pacific.
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| 1895 – Myeongseong, the only empress of Korea, was assassinated.
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| 1904 – The Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta (Downtown Edmonton pictured), was incorporated.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 2005 – A major earthquake centered in Kashmir killed over 74,500 people and injured at least 106,000 others in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.
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| Felipe Camiroaga |b|1966
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| William John Swainson |b|1789|
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| Pilgrim I |d|923|
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| Mary Beale |bur|1699|
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| Kikunae Ikeda |b|1864|
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- 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.
- 1604 – Kepler's Supernova (remnant pictured), the most recent supernova in the Milky Way, was observed worldwide.
- 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.
- 1952 – Three trains collided (aftermath pictured) at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London, killing 112 people and injuring 340 others.
- 1967 – Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2019 – Anti-government protests calling for free and fair elections began in Baku, Azerbaijan.
- Born/died:| Xiao Sagezhi |d|951| Harriet Taylor Mill |b|1807| Augustus Buchel |b|1813|John Hay |b|1838| Ellen Wilkinson |b|1891| Mark Oliphant |b|1901|Kiichi Miyazawa |b|1919| Wendell Willkie |d|1944|Aya Hirano |b|1987| Varsha Bhosle |d|2012
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- 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.
- 1956 – Major League Baseball pitcher Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in World Series history.
- 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.
{{Born and died list|Edward Wright|bap|1561| John Hancock |d|1793| Franklin Pierce |d|1869| Marilou Diaz-Abaya |d|2012|}}
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