10-08-2004, 05:29 AM
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October 8th
451 ~ At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon began.
1871 ~ The Great Chicago Fire destroyed about 17,450 buildings, killed about 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless.
1895 ~ Birthday of Juan Perón, former president of Argentina.
1918 ~ World War I - In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
1920 ~ Birthday of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction writer
1949 ~ Birthday of Sigourney Weaver, Actress.
1967 ~ Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1967 ~ Death of Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1982 ~ Poland bans Solidarity.
1992 ~ Death of Willy Brandt, German politician.
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