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Today in History
Today is October 8
Here's what happened today...
| 1995 | Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record |
| 1995 | Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series |
| 1994 | BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill |
| 1993 | Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts" |
| 1993 | UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa |
| 1993 | Qn Elizabeth's nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24) |
| 1992 | Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus |
| 1992 | Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game |
| 1992 | Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott |
| 1990 | US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize |
| 1990 | 24th Country Music Assn Award: George Strait wins |
| 1990 | Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters |
| 1989 | Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series |
| 1988 | Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove |
| 1988 | Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage |
| 1986 | RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs |
| 1986 | Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0 |
| 1985 | Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident |
| 1985 | Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Mis‚rables," premieres in London |
| 1985 | "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam |
| 1984 | 18th Country Music Assn Award: Alabama wins |
| 1983 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7 |
| 1983 | 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7 |
| 1982 | Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions |
| 1982 | NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands |
| 1981 | Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral |
| 1981 | USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser |
| 1981 | 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV |
| 1980 | Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital |
| 1980 | British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro |
| 1980 | USSR & Syria sign peace treaty |
| 1980 | USSR performs nuclear test |
| 1979 | J McHugh & A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in NYC |
| 1979 | 13th Country Music Assn Award:[Approx] |
| 1979 | "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs |
| 1978 | Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph) |
| 1978 | Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City |
| 1977 | Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant) |
| 1976 | Sex Pistols sign with EMI |
| 1973 | NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose & NY Met Bud Harrelson |
| 1973 | Spyris Markezinis forms govt in Greece |
| 1972 | Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined & suspended |
| 1972 | In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher |
| 1972 | Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions |
| 1972 | "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
| 1971 | John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine" |
| 1971 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 1968 | Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina |
| 1966 | Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52) |
| 1965 | Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter |
| 1965 | London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England |
| 1965 | Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms |
| 1965 | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
| 1964 | Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test |
| 1964 | Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die) |
| 1963 | Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya |
| 1962 | N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party |
| 1962 | Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN |
| 1961 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
| 1961 | US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die |
| 1961 | USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
| 1961 | Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, running his streak to 32 |
| 1960 | Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer |
| 1959 | LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series |
| 1959 | Conservatives win British election |
| 1959 | "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs |
| 1958 | Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time |
| 1958 | Dr Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker (Stockholm) |
| 1958 | KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles |
| 1957 | Procter & Gamble-director N McElroy becomes US Min of Defense |
| 1957 | Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC) |
| 1957 | Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire |
| 1956 | Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn |
| 1955 | Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched |
| 1953 | WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins |
| 1953 | Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group |
| 1952 | Chinese offensive in Korea |
| 1952 | 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England) |
| 1951 | Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1951 | "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances |
| 1950 | Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17 |
| 1950 | 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit |
| 1946 | Milt plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die |
| 1946 | Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China |
| 1945 | Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada |
| 1944 | "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio |
| 1944 | Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto," premieres |
| 1943 | Great-Britain establishes bases on Azores |
| 1942 | Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley) |
| 1941 | Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built |
| 1940 | Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series |
| 1940 | German troops occupies Romania |
| 1939 | NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win |
| 1939 | Germany annexes Western Poland |
| 1938 | G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premieres in NYC |
| 1935 | Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet) |
| 1934 | Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son |
| 1933 | Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish govt |
| 1933 | Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters |
| 1930 | Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series |
| 1929 | Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi |
| 1929 | A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs |
| 1928 | Eastern Soccer League forms in US |
| 1928 | Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris," premieres in NYC |
| 1927 | Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation) |
| 1927 | NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series |
| 1924 | British Labour govt of MacDonald falls to Communists |
| 1922 | NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series |
| 1918 | Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans |
| 1917 | Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet |
| 1915 | Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally |
| 1915 | Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating |
| 1915 | Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed |
| 1912 | Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War |
| 1912 | 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey |
| 1909 | Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant |
| 1908 | NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920) |
| 1906 | Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London |
| 1904 | 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY) |
| 1903 | J M Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen," premieres in Dublin |
| 1898 | 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2 |
| 1897 | Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera |
| 1896 | Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks |
| 1895 | Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms |
| 1892 | Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow |
| 1887 | Phillies set club record 16th straight victory |
| 1886 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" (BG) |
| 1873 | 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute |
| 1871 | Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ımiles (10 kmı) of Chicago buildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1871 | Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin |
| 1865 | Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains |
| 1862 | Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted |
| 1862 | Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor |
| 1860 | Telegraph line between LA & SF opens |
| 1856 | Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy & lower Brit flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War |
| 1842 | Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach |
| 1840 | 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago |
| 1822 | 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley |
| 1818 | 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves |
| 1815 | Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo Italy |
| 1813 | Treaty of Ried between Bayern & Austria |
| 1806 | British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve |
| 1775 | Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army |
| 1740 | Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia |
| 1712 | French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast |
| 1690 | Turkish troops occupy Belgrade |
| 1633 | Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government |
| 1625 | Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz |
| 1604 | Supernova "Kepler's nova" 1st sighted |
| 1600 | San Marino adopts constitution |
| 1492 | Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico |
| 1085 | San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated |
| 876 | Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare |
| 451 | Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens |
| 314 | Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius |
These people died on October 8
| 1997 | Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66 |
| 1996 | William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33 |
| 1996 | Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48 |
| 1995 | Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45 |
| 1994 | Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50 |
| 1993 | Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73 |
| 1992 | Willy Brandt, chancellor of W Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78 |
| 1991 | Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75 |
| 1988 | Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1985 | Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94 |
| 1985 | Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat |
| 1984 | Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke |
| 1983 | Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49 |
| 1982 | Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92 |
| 1982 | Fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67 |
| 1979 | June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68 |
| 1978 | Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76 |
| 1978 | Karl Swenson, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70 |
| 1978 | Jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49 |
| 1975 | Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1973 | Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies |
| 1971 | Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51 |
| 1970 | Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies |
| 1970 | Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75 |
| 1969 | Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81 |
| 1967 | [Ernesto] Che Guevara [Serna], Arg/Cuban revolutionary, dies |
| 1967 | Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84 |
| 1964 | Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69 |
| 1956 | Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69 |
| 1953 | Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58 |
| 1953 | Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41 |
| 1947 | Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78 |
| 1945 | Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73 |
| 1944 | Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52 |
| 1940 | Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78 |
| 1927 | Ricardo Giraldes, Argentine poet/writer (Don Segundo Sombra), dies |
| 1925 | Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies |
| 1919 | EugŠne Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies |
| 1912 | Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1907 | Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65 |
| 1904 | Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62 |
| 1897 | Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1895 | Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1888 | Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies |
| 1869 | Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64 |
| 1865 | Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1864 | Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34 |
| 1862 | William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28 |
| 1862 | James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39 |
| 1842 | Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1834 | Fran‡ois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1803 | Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54 |
| 1793 | John Hancock, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 56 |
| 1772 | Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1771 | John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76 |
| 1754 | Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47 |
| 1728 | Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47 |
| 1722 | Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80 |
| 1686 | Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55 |
| 1683 | Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1680 | Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61 |
| 1656 | Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71 |
| 1651 | Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55 |
| 1613 | Sebasti n de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74 |
| 1606 | Jan, the Aged, count of Nassau/fathered 24, dies |
| 1604 | Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58 |
| 1253 | Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies |
| 1094 | St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice |
| 705 | Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies |
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