Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 8
This is a list of selected October 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.
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Rodriguez arresting Che Guevara
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The Great Chicago Fire, an artist's rendering -
Gustav Mahler
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Navy Day in Peru (1821); | unreferenced section |
| 1076 – Demetrius Zvonimir, the last native king who exerted any real power over the entire Croatian state, was crowned. | unreferenced section |
| 1600 – San Marino, the world's oldest constitutional republic, adopted its written constitution. | refimprove |
| 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. | needs more footnotes |
| 1871 – Four large fires broke out in the United States, including the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the latter being the deadliest fire in U.S. history. | Chicago fire: refimprove section |
| 1879 – The Chilean Navy defeated the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, a decisive encounter during the War of the Pacific. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1895 – Queen Min, the only empress of Korea, was assassinated. | Tagged with {{Original research}} |
| 1962 – Newsmagazine Der Spiegel uncovered the sorry state of the West German armed forces, then facing the communist threat from the east, and was accused of treason shortly afterwards. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 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, plot summary too long |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 451 – The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council in Christianity, opened. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
- 1897 – Composer Gustav Mahler was appointed the director of the Vienna Court Opera.
- 1918 – World War I: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France's Forest of Argonne, American Sergeant Alvin C. York led the seven remaining men on an attack against a German machine gun nest, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 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.
- 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.
- 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.
October 8: Thanksgiving in Canada (2012); Independence Day in Croatia (1991); Health and Sports Day in Japan (2012); Columbus Day in the United States (2012)
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Perryville, one of the bloodiest battles of the war, was fought in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky.
- 1904 – The Canadian cities of Edmonton, Alberta, and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, were both incorporated.
- 1932 – The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of the Indian Empire.
- 1952 – Three trains collided (wreckage pictured) at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London killing 112 people and injuring 340.
- 1998 – Gardermoen Airport, the main domestic hub and international airport for Norway, began operating as Oslo Airport, Fornebu, closed.