8 October

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

## Events

* 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.

## Births

* 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

## Daiths
* 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)

## Halidays

* 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