Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 8

This is a list of selected October 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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• Rodriguez arresting Che Guevara
  Rodriguez arresting Che Guevara
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  Cosette from Les Misérables
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  Victor Hugo
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  Battle of Angamos
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  The Great Chicago Fire, an artist's rendering

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Navy Day in Peru (1821);	unreferenced section
1821 – The Peruvian Navy was established by the government of José de San Martín.	unreferenced section
1856 – Officials of the Chinese Qing Dynasty arrested and imprisoned twelve people aboard the Hong Kong-registered ship Arrow for suspected piracy and smuggling, sparking the Second Opium War.	needs more footnotes
1879 – The Chilean Navy defeated the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, a decisive encounter during the War of the Pacific.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1895 – Queen Min, the last empress of Korea, was assassinated.	Tagged with {{Original research}}
1904 – The Canadian cities of Edmonton, Alberta, and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, were both incorporated.	Prince Albert tagged refimprove (and it seems unfair to rewrite this only for Edmonton)
1962 – Newsmagazine Der Spiegel uncovered the sorry state of the West German armed forces, then facing the communist threat from the east, and was accused of treason shortly afterwards.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1985 – The musical Les Misérables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, opened in London's Barbican Centre, starting its run as the longest-running West End musical in history.	refimprove
2005 – A major earthquake centered in Kashmir killed over 74,500 people and injured at least 106,000 others in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 1600 – San Marino, the world's oldest constitutional republic, adopted its written constitution.

• 1871 – Four large fires broke out in the United States, including the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the latter being the deadliest fire in U.S. history.

• 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Perryville, one of the bloodiest battles of the war, was fought in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky.

• 1918 – World War I: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France's Forest of Argonne, American Sergeant Alvin C. York led the seven remaining men on an attack against a German machine gun nest, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.

• 1932 – The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of the Indian Empire.

• 1969 – Demonstrations organized by the Weather Underground known as the Days of Rage began in Chicago.

• 2001 – In response to the September 11 attacks, U.S. President George W. Bush announced the creation of the Office of Homeland Security, with former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge as its director.

October 8: Yom Kippur ends at nightfall (Judaism, 2011); Independence Day in Croatia (1991);

• 451 – The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council in Christianity, opened. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.

• 1076 – Demetrius Zvonimir, the last native king who exerted any real power over the entire Croatian state, was crowned.

• 1897 – Composer Gustav Mahler (pictured) was appointed the director of the Vienna Court Opera.

• 1967 – Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.

• 2001 – At Linate Airport in Milan, Italy, Scandinavian Airlines Flight SK686 collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation II business jet, killing 118 people.

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