1904<\/strong> – “Little Johnny Jones” opened in Hartford,\u00a0CT.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event, he was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – The first transcontinental air race in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0began.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – “The O\u8ab0eills” debuted on CBS radio.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – The cover of “The Saturday Evening Post” portrayed Norman Rockwell.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” debuted on CBS radio.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Truman\u00a0announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – “The Complete Book of Etiquette” was published for the first time.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Government declared that LSD was dangerous and an illegal substance.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> – “Sugar Babies” opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0greeted former\u00a0Presidents Carter,\u00a0Ford\u00a0and\u00a0Nixon\u00a0to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were banned.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The “Negro Burial Ground” had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco,\u00a0TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Canada and Netherlands were voted into the U.N. Security Council.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Rush Limbaugh announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had an only partial hearing in his right ear. The condition had happened in a three month period.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush’s request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – It was announced that Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. had reached an agreement to merge. The name for the combined company was NBC Universal.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the “Siegfried and Roy” show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger attack on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The 7.6 Mw<\/sub>\u202f\u00a0Kashmir earthquake\u00a0leaves 86,000\u201387,351 people dead, 69,000\u201375,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with\u00a0Ebola, dies.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In the wake of\u00a0Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 About 200\u00a0Extinction Rebellion\u00a0activists block the gates of\u00a0Leinster House\u00a0(parliament) in the\u00a0Republic of Ireland<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History of 8 October 1904 – “Little Johnny Jones” opened in Hartford,\u00a0CT. 1915 – During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded. 1918 – U.S. Corporal Alvin C. 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