It happened on this day, October 8
Events:
1912 – Start of the First Balkan War between the Ottoman Empire on one side and Serbia and Bulgaria on the other.
1917 – Communist leader Leon Trotsky is chosen president of the Petrograd city soviet.
1932 – Establishment of the Indian Air Force as an auxiliary branch of the Air Force of British India.
1939 Germany occupies Poland during World War II.
1957 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev accuses U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of encouraging Turkey to launch an attack on Syria after tensions arose between them following the annexation of the Iskenderun Brigade to Turkey.
1962 – Algeria joins the United Nations.
1963 – Start of the sand war between Algeria and Morocco
1967 – The arrest of revolutionary Che Guevara and his collaborators in Bolivia.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 – Sanctions imposed on South Africa due to apartheid policies are lifted.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the creation of the Department of the Interior.
2004 – The Hilton Hotel explosion in Sinai leaves 28 dead, 100 injured and 30 missing, and blame points to Al-Qaeda.
2010 – Announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo for his long and peaceful struggle for basic human rights in China, and the Chinese government criticizes the awarding of the prize.
2012 – The Venezuelan National Electoral Council announces the victory of President Hugo Chávez by a significant margin over his rival Enrique Capriles in the elections.
2013 – The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs
2014 – Eric Betzig, William Moerner and Stefan Helle win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2015 – The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, known for her books on the post-Soviet era.
2016 – The Justice and Development Party, led by Abdel-Ilah Ibn Kiran, wins the Moroccan legislative elections.
2018 – Americans Paul Romer and William Nordhaus win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on climate change and its impact on the economy.
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Births:
1850 – Henri Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist.
1870 – Louis Verne, French musician.
1873 – Mother Parker, American outlaw.
1883 – Otto Warburg, German doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1931.
1884 – Walter von Reichenau, German military commander.
1895 – Ahmed Zogu, king of Albania. ** Juan Peron, president of Argentina.
1910 – Guice Hall, American communist leader.
1917 – Ahmed Mazhar, Egyptian actor.
1919 – Keiichi Miyazawa, Prime Minister of Japan.
1928 – Didi, Brazilian footballer.
1946 – Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian politician.
1968 – Ali Benarbia, Algerian footballer.
1970 – Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video game director and character designer.
1973 – Nawara Negm, Egyptian blogger and journalist.
1980 – Sherine Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer.
1981 – Ruby, Egyptian actress and singer.
1989 – Armand Traoré, French footballer.
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Death:
1754 – Henry Fielding, English novelist.
1869 – Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.
1986 – Shadi Abdel Salam, Egyptian director.
1992 – Willy Brandt, German chancellor, wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.
2004 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
2007 – Sheikh Salem Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti minister.
2008 – George Ballad, American cell biologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1974.
2018 – Dina Haroun, Syrian actress.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Independence Day in Croatia.
⏪ Navy Day in Peru.
