Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 8
October 8, 2024 is the 282nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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).
- 1573 –End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years War.
- 1600 –San Marino adopts its written constitution.
- 1821 –The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
- 1860 –Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
- 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 –Algeria joins the United Nations.
- 1967 –Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- 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.
- 1998 –Oslo’s Gardermoen airport opens after the close down of Fornebu airport.
Who were born on October 8?
- 1789 –William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)
- 1883 –Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
- 1901 –Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer (d. 1977)
- 1917 –Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)
- 1929 –Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)
- 1938 –Fred Stolle, Australian tennis player
- 1948 –Pedro López, Colombian serial killer
- 1974 –Martin Henderson, New Zealand actor
- 1978 –Antonino D'Agostino, Italian footballer
- 1986 –Louis Dodds, English footballer
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