About October 8
October 8, 2025 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.
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Libra is the sun 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.
What Happened On October 8
- 1075 –Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
- 1573 –End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years War.
- 1600 –San Marino adopts its written constitution.
- 1645 –Jeanne Mance opened the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first lay hospital in North America.
- 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.
- 1813 –The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bayern and Austria.
- 1821 –The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
- 1829 –Rail transport: Stephenson’s The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
- 1918 –World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
- 1921 –KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
- 1928 –Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella’s Violin Concerto.
- 1941 –World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
- 1952 –The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
- 1962 –Algeria joins the United Nations.
- 1962 –Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article “Bedingt abwehrbereit” (“Conditionally prepared for defense”) about a NATO manoeuver called “Fallex 62”, which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany’s army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine is soon accused of treason.
- 1967 –Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, making the country fully independent
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