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- Rodriguez arresting Che Guevara
Cosette from Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Battle of Angamos
The Great Chicago Fire, an artist's rendering
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Navy Day in Peru (1821); | unreferenced section |
| 1821 – The Peruvian Navy was established by the government of José de San Martín. | unreferenced section |
| 1856 – Officials of the Chinese Qing Dynasty arrested and imprisoned twelve people aboard the Hong Kong-registered ship Arrow for suspected piracy and smuggling, sparking the Second Opium War. | needs more footnotes |
| 1879 – The Chilean Navy defeated the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, a decisive encounter during the War of the Pacific. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1895 – Queen Min, the last empress of Korea, was assassinated. | Tagged with {{Original research}} |
| 1904 – The Canadian cities of Edmonton, Alberta, and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, were both incorporated. | Prince Albert tagged refimprove (and it seems unfair to rewrite this only for Edmonton) |
| 1962 – Newsmagazine Der Spiegel uncovered the sorry state of the West German armed forces, then facing the communist threat from the east, and was accused of treason shortly afterwards. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1985 – The musical Les Misérables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, opened in London's Barbican Centre, starting its run as the longest-running West End musical in history. | refimprove |
| 2005 – A major earthquake centered in Kashmir killed over 74,500 people and injured at least 106,000 others in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1600 – San Marino, the world's oldest constitutional republic, adopted its written constitution.
- 1871 – Four large fires broke out in the United States, including the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the latter being the deadliest fire in U.S. history.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Perryville, one of the bloodiest battles of the war, was fought in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky.
- 1918 – World War I: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France's Forest of Argonne, American Sergeant Alvin C. York led the seven remaining men on an attack against a German machine gun nest, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.
- 1932 – The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of the Indian Empire.
- 1969 – Demonstrations organized by the Weather Underground known as the Days of Rage began in Chicago.
- 2001 – In response to the September 11 attacks, U.S. President George W. Bush announced the creation of the Office of Homeland Security, with former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge as its director.
October 8: Yom Kippur ends at nightfall (Judaism, 2011); Independence Day in Croatia (1991);
- 451 – The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council in Christianity, opened. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
- 1076 – Demetrius Zvonimir, the last native king who exerted any real power over the entire Croatian state, was crowned.
- 1897 – Composer Gustav Mahler (pictured) was appointed the director of the Vienna Court Opera.
- 1967 – Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
- 2001 – At Linate Airport in Milan, Italy, Scandinavian Airlines Flight SK686 collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation II business jet, killing 118 people.