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 281st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 25, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,331,360 minutes 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 ‘dihectaoctacontahenagon’ day.
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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 132 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 4,674 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 8 Historical Events
- 1904 –Edmonton, Alberta was incorporated as a city.
- 1904 –Prince Albert, Saskatchewan was incorporated as a city.
- 1918 –World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
- 1973 –Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir’s armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
- 1974 –Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
- 1978 –Australia’s Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
- 1982 –Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
- 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.
- 1998 –Oslo’s Gardermoen airport opens after the close down of Fornebu airport.
- 2005 –2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
Who were born on October 8?
- 1890 –Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
- 1918 –Ron Randell, film character actor (d. 2005)
- 1927 –Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956)
- 1939 –Paul Hogan, Australian actor
- 1947 –Stephen Shore, American photographer
- 1955 –Darrell Hammond, American comedian (SNL)
- 1959 –Mike Morgan, American baseball player
- 1974 –Martin Henderson, New Zealand actor
- 1985 –Eiji Wentz, Japanese entertainer
- 1987 –Taylor Price, American football player
Who died on October 8?
- 1659 –Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
- 1804 –Thomas Cochran (judge), Canadian judge (b. 1777)
- 1886 –Austin F. Pike, American politician (b. 1819)
- 1931 –Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
- 1942 –Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer (b. 1869)
- 1977 –Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer, composer, lyricist (b. 1902)
- 1997 –Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
- 2002 –Phyllis Calvert, British actress (b. 1915)
- 2008 –Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938)
- 2011 –Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
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