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Events from History on October 08

1085 : San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
1492 : Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1600 : San Marino adopts constitution
1604 : Supernova "Kepler's nova" 1st sighted
1625 : Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz
1633 : Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government
1690 : Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1712 : French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
1740 : Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia
1775 : Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1806 : British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve
1806 : rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
1813 : Treaty of Ried between Bayern & Austria
1815 : Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo Italy
1818 : 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
1822 : 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 : HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago
1840 : 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1842 : Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach
1856 : Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen
1856 : on suspicion of piracy & lower Brit flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
1860 : Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1862 : Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted
1862 : Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor
1865 : Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
1871 : Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
1871 : Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago
1871 : buildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation
1873 : 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
1879 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #204 Kallisto
1886 : Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" (BG)
1887 : C H F Peters discovers asteroid #270 Anahita
1887 : Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
1891 : A Charlois discovers asteroid #319 Leona
1892 : Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
1895 : Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
1896 : Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
1896 : G Witt discovers asteroid #422 Berolina
1897 : Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1898 : 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
1903 : J M Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen," premieres in Dublin
1904 : 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1906 : A Kopff discovers asteroid #612 Veronika
1906 : Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London
1908 : NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
1909 : Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1912 : 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1912 : Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
1915 : Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed
1915 : Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating
1915 : Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
1917 : Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet
1918 : Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1920 : W Baade discovers asteroid #5656 Oldfield
1922 : NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
1924 : British Labour govt of MacDonald falls to Communists
1927 : NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
1927 : Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
1928 : Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris," premieres in NYC
1928 : Eastern Soccer League forms in US
1929 : A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs
1929 : Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi
1930 : Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
1931 : P Shajn discovers asteroid #1654 Bojeva
1933 : Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
1933 : Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish govt
1934 : Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
1935 : Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)
1938 : G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premieres in NYC
1939 : Germany annexes Western Poland
1939 : NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
1940 : Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
1940 : German troops occupies Romania
1941 : Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built
1942 : Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
1943 : Great-Britain establishes bases on Azores
1944 : "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio
1944 : Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto," premieres
1945 : Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
1946 : Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China
1946 : Milt plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
1950 : 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
1950 : Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
1951 : "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951 : Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 : S Arend discovers asteroid #2666 Gramme
1951 : Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League
1952 : 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
1952 : Chinese offensive in Korea
1953 : #2496 Fernandus & #2528 Mohler
1953 : Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from
1953 : Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #1762 Russell,
1953 : WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins
1953 : playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
1955 : Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
1956 : Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn
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
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 : Lowell Observatory discovers asteroid #4961
1958 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 : "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs
1959 : Conservatives win British election
1959 : LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
1960 : Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
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
1961 : consecutive scoreless innings, running his streak to 32
1962 : Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
1962 : N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1963 : Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 : Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2045 Peking,
1964 : #2514 Taiyuan, #2539 Ningxia, #2899, #3048, #3746 & #4047
1964 : Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die)
1964 : Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test
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
1966 : Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
1968 : Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina
1969 : L I Chernykh discovers asteroids #1855 Korolev, #1856 Ruzena,
1969 : #1956 Artek, #2030 Belyaev, #2031 BAM, #2468, #2561 Margolin,
1969 : #2877 Likhachev, #2948 Amosov, #3126 Davydov, #3441 & #3659
1969 : #3804 Drunina, #3963 Paradzhanov, #4184 Berdyayev, #4681 Ermak,
1969 : #4915 Solzhenitsyn & #5154
1970 : Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 : John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1971 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 : L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids #1910 Mikhailov, #2475 Semenov &
1972 : "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1972 : #4005 Dyagilev
1972 : Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1972 : In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
1972 : Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined & suspended
1973 : NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose & NY Met Bud Harrelson
1973 : Spyris Markezinis forms govt in Greece
1975 : S J Bus & J Huchra discover asteroid #2174 Asmodeus
1976 : Sex Pistols sign with EMI
1977 : 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1977 : Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies
1978 : E F Helin discovers asteroid #2860 Pasacentennium
1978 : Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
1978 : L I Chernykh discovers asteroid #3968 Koptelov
1978 : Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
1979 : "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs
1979 : 13th Country Music Assn Award:[Approx]
1979 : J McHugh & A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in NYC
1980 : Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
1980 : British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
1980 : L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2760 Kacha
1980 : USSR & Syria sign peace treaty
1980 : USSR performs nuclear test
1981 : 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV
1981 : L I Chernykh discovers asteroid #3588, #4022 Nonna & #5940
1981 : Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford &
1981 : Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1981 : USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser
1982 : NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
1982 : Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
1983 : 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
1983 : Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1984 : 18th Country Music Assn Award: Alabama wins
1985 : "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
1985 : Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Mis‚rables," premieres in London
1985 : Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
1986 : Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
1986 : P Jensen discovers asteroid #4092 Tyr
1986 : RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
1988 : C S Shoemaker & E M Shoemaker discover asteroid #5511 Cloanthus
1988 : Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1988 : Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
1989 : M Koishikawa discovers asteroid #6190
1989 : Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
1989 : T Kojima discovers asteroid #4288
1989 : Y Mizuno & T Furuta finds asteroid #4265 Kani, #4799 Hirasawa & #7648
1990 : 24th Country Music Assn Award: George Strait wins
1990 : Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 : US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1991 : F Borngen discovers asteroid #8284
1992 : Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1992 : Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game
1992 : Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
1993 : H Abe & S Miyasaka discover asteroid #7097 Yatsuka & #8099
1993 : Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
1993 : K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #6924
1993 : Qn Elizabeth's nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24)
1993 : R H McNaught discovers asteroid #6411 Tamaga
1993 : UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
1994 : BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
1995 : Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to
1995 : 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
1995 : Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record
1997 : A Vagnozzi discovers asteroid #8230

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