What are the important events that happened on October 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 8: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 8 is the 282nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 25, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,728,345,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctacontadigon’ day.
Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 113 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,309 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 8 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1856 –The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
- 1860 –Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
- 1932 –The Indian Air Force is established.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon’s October 7 peace proposal as “a maneuver to deceive world opinion”.
- 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.
- 2001 –U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
Who were born on October 8?
- 1890 –Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
- 1917 –Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)
- 1936 –Rona Barrett, American gossip columnist
- 1946 –Dennis Kucinich, American politician
- 1959 –Nick Bakay, American actor
- 1970 –Anne-Marie Duff, English actress
- 1974 –Martin Henderson, New Zealand actor
- 1977 –Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- 1979 –Kristanna Loken, American actress
- 1993 –Angus T. Jones, American actor
Who died on October 8?
- 1647 –Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
- 1754 –Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
- 1804 –Thomas Cochran (judge), Canadian judge (b. 1777)
- 1869 –Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
- 1931 –Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
- 1936 –William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
- 1985 –Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (b. 1919)
- 1992 –Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
- 2011 –Al Davis, American football executive (b. 1929)
- 2011 –Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
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