Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
October 8
| 876 | Charles the Bald is defeated at the Battle of Andernach. | |
| 1690 | Belgrade is retaken by the Turks. | |
| 1840 | King William I of Holland abdicates. | |
| 1855 | Arrow, a ship flying the British flag, is boarded by Chinese who arrest the crew, thus beginning the Second Chinese War. | |
| 1862 | The Union is victorious at the Battle of Perryville, the largest Civil War combat to take place in Kentucky. | |
| 1871 | The Great Chicago Fire begins in southwest Chicago, possibly in a barn owned by Patrick and Katherine O'Leary. Fanned by strong southwesterly winds, the flames raged for more than 24 hours, eventually leveling three and a half square miles and wiping out one-third of the city. Approximately 250 people were killed in the fire; 98,500 people were left homeless; 17,450 buildings were destroyed. | |
| 1897 | Journalist Charles Henry Dow, founder of the Wall Street Journal, begins charting trends of stocks and bonds. | |
| 1900 | Maximilian Harden is sentenced to six months in prison for publishing an article critical of the German Kaiser. | |
| 1906 | Karl Ludwig Nessler first demonstrates a machine in London that puts permenant waves in hair. The client wears a dozen brass curlers, each wearing two pounds, for the six-hour process. | |
| 1919 | The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives pass the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Bill. | |
| 1922 | Lilian Gatlin becomes the first woman pilot to fly across the United States. | |
| 1956 | Don Larson of the New York Yankees pitched the first perfect game in World Series history against the Brooklyn Dodgers. | |
| 1968 | U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Sealord, an attack on North Vietnamese supply lines and base areas. | |
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Born on October 8 |
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| 1810 | James Wilson Marshall, discoverer of gold in California. | |
| 1890 | Eddie Rickenbacker, U.S. fighter pilot in World War I, aviation pioneer. | |
| 1895 | Juan Peron, Argentinean dictator. | |
| 1917 | Rodney Porter, British biochemist and Nobel Proze winner. | |
| 1926 | Cesar Milstein, molecular biologist. | |
| 1941 | Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader. | |
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