8th October

EVENTS:

• 1645 – Jeanne Mance opened the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first lay hospital in North America.
• 1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
• 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh‘s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
• 1932 – The Indian Air Force is established.
• 1962 – Algeria joins the United Nations.
• 2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
• 2005 – 2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
• 2016 – In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.
• 2023 – The 2023 Israel–Hamas war is declared following the Hamas attack the day prior

BIRTHS:

• 1883 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1890 – Eddie Rickenbacker, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1973)
• 1917 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
• 1918 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 – Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet and scholar (d. 2006)
• 1927 – César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• 1928 – Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer
• 1934 – Gerry Hitchens English footballer (d. 1983)
• 1978 – Antonino D’Agostino, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Abhishek Nayar, Indian cricketer
• 1986 – Louis Dodds, English footballer
• 1987 – Taylor Price, American football player
• 1989 – Armand Traoré, French footballer
• 2002 – Brian Thomas Jr., American football player
• 2002 – Qinwen Zheng, Chinese tennis player

HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:

• Air Force Day (India)
• Independence Day, celebrates the official separation of Croatia from Yugoslavia in 1991.
• Navy Day (Peru)
• Arbor Day (Namibia)
• World Space Week (October 4-10)
• Children’s Day (Iran)