Important Events
1948 World’s first internal pacemaker implanted
1919 World’s first transcontinental air race
1912 First Balkan war begins
1871 Great Chicago fire begins
Births On This Day – 8 October
1985 Bruno Mars
(American singer-songwriter, producer, actor)
1970 Matt Damon
(American actor, screenwriter, producer)
1943 Chevy Chase
(American comedian, actor)
1939 Harvey Pekar
(American author)
1895 Juan Perón
(Argentine military officer, politician, 29th President of Argentina)
Deaths On This Day – 8 October
1992 Willy Brandt
(German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate)
1967 Clement Attlee
(English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
1936 Premchand
(Indian author)
1869 Franklin Pierce
(American politician, 14th President of the United States)
1793 John Hancock
(American politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts)