Monday 8 October 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY (8th October)

Great Chicago Fire begins, 1871
American Revolution
Continentals raid Unadilla, 1778
Automotive
Frank Duryea, winner of the first American "horseless carriage" race, is born, 1869
Civil War
Union troops stop Rebels at the Battle of Perryville, 1862
Cold War
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature, 1970
Crime
Self-help guru's sweat lodge ceremony turns deadly, 2009
Disaster
Fire rips through Chicago, 1871
General Interest
First transcontinental air race, 1919
Che Guevara defeated, 1967
Massive earthquake hits Kashmir region, 2005
Hollywood
Matt Damon born, 1970
Literary
Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, 1937
Music
Jerry Lee Lewis records "Great Balls Of Fire" in Memphis, Tennessee, 1957
Old West
The Great Fire destroys much of Chicago, 1871
Presidential
U.S. House of Representatives initiates Clinton impeachment inquiry, 1998
Sports
Don Larsen is perfect in World Series, 1956
Vietnam War
U.S. and South Vietnamese navies commence Operation Sealords, 1968
Communists reject Nixon's peace proposal, 1970
Possible breakthrough at Paris peace talks, 1972
World War I
U.S. soldier Alvin York displays heroics at Argonne, 1918
World War II
Germans overrun Mariupol, in southern Russia, 1941

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