The 8t o October is the 281st day o the year (282nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 84 days bidin.

• 1075 - Dimitar Zvonimir is crouned King o Croatie.
• 1600 - San Marino adopts its aen constitution.
• 1814 - First election tae the Norse Storting (Pairlament).
• 1860 - In Californie, the first telegraph linkin Los Angeles tae San Francisco opens.
• 1871 - The Great Fire o Chicago stairts. On the semme day, 1,200 fowk are kilt in a massive forest fire in the state o Wisconsin.
• 1904 - Edmonton, Alberta, is incorporatit as a ceety.
• 1932 - Indie's Air Force is creatit.
• 1939 - Warld War II: Germany annexes Wastren Poland.
• 1952 - The Harrow an Weald train crash northwast o Lunnon kills 112 fowk.
• 1962 - Algerie jyns the Unitit Naitions.
• 1967 - Che Guevara, Communist revolutionary, is captured in Bolivie, a day afore bein executit.
• 1974 - Baja California Sur becomes a state o Mexico.
• 1990 - Israeli polis kill 17 Palestinians and woond ower 100 near the Dome o the Rock.
• 1991 - Croatie declares unthirldom frae Yugoslavie.
• 2001 - Twa planes collide in thick fog shortly efter tak-aff frae Milan, Italy, killin 118 fowk.
• 2004 - Wangari Maathai wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2005 - The north o Pakistan is hit bi a strang yirdquauk, killin 1,000s o fowk.
• 2010 - Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2013 - Peter Higgs an Francois Englert win the Nobel Prize in Pheesics for the discovery o the Higgs boson.
• 2015 - Svetlana Alexievich o Belarus wins the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
• 2018 - In a special report, the Intergovrenmental Panel on Climate Chynge says that "rapid, far-reachin an unprecedentit chynges in aw aspects o society" are needed tae keep global wairmin below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

• 1712 - Alison Cockburn, Scots poet (d. 1794)
• 1850 - Henry Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
• 1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German pheesiologist an medicinar (d. 1970)
• 1890 - Arthur Landsborough Thomson, Scots ornithologist (d. 1977)
• 1895 - Juan Perón, Preses o Argentinae (d. 1974)
• 1895 - King Zog I o Albanie (d. 1961)
• 1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Dens chemist an pheesiologist (d. 2018)
• 1919 - Kiichi Miyazawa, Prime meenister o Japan (d. 2007)
• 1929 - Betty Boothroyd, Inglis politeecian
• 1931 - Bill Brown, Scots fitbawer (d. 2004)
• 1941 - Jesse Jackson, American pastor an activist
• 1946 - Colin Jackson, Scots fitbawer (d. 2015)
• 1946 - Dennis Kucinich, American politeecian
• 1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
• 1951 - Graham Shaw, Scots fitbawer
• 1958 - Ursula von der Leyen, German politeecian
• 1965 - Dougie McDonald, Scots fitbaw referee
• 1970 - Matt Damon, American actor
• 1970 - David Duguid, Scots politeecian
• 1970 - Sadiq Khan, Inglis politeecian, Mayor o Lunnon
• 1971 - David Gauke, Inglis politeecian
• 1971 - Michelle Mone, Baroness Mone, Scots entrepreneur an peer
• 1979 - Kristanna Loken, American actress
• 1983 - Michael Fraser, Scots fitbawer
• 1985 - Bruno Mars, American sangster
• 1993 - Garbiñe Muguruza, Spaingie tennis player

• 1754 - Henry Fielding, Inglis writer (b. 1707)
• 1793 - John Hancock, American politeecian (b. 1737)
• 1809 - James Elphinston, Scots eddicator, ornithologist, phonologist an linguistics expert (b. 1721)
• 1862 - James Walker, Scots ceevil ingineer (b. 1781)
• 1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1804)
• 1967 - Clement Attlee, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1883)
• 1982 - Philip Noel-Baker, Inglis peace activist (b. 1889)
• 1992 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor o Wast Germany (b. 1913)
• 2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)

• Independence Day (Croatie)
• Navy Day (Peru)
• Children's Day (Iran)
• Air Force Day (Indie)
• The 8t o October is the eat day o the follaein saunts:

St. Keyne

St. Pelagia

St. Amor o Aquitaine

St. Badilo

St. Benedicta

St. Ywi

St. Thais

St. Triduna

St. Demetrius

St. Reparata

St. Martin Cid

St. Nestor

Bl. Matthew de Eskandely

St. Palatias an Laurentia

Bl. Peter o Seville

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