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Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 8
- 451 –At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1).
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1895 –Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
- 1912 –First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
- 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.
- 1956 –New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 20 perfect games in MLB history.
- 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.
- 2001 –A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
- 2005 –2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
Who were born on October 8?
- 1789 –William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)
- 1919 –Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)
- 1943 –R. L. Stine, American author
- 1961 –Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist
- 1970 –Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer
- 1971 –Monty Williams, American basketball player
- 1980 –Nick Cannon, American actor
- 1981 –Kalil Wilson, American vocalist
- 1983 –Mario Cassano, Italian footballer
- 1993 –Molly C. Quinn, American actress
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