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Events on October 8

• 1600 San Marino receives a constitution whose basic features are still valid today and which makes the country one of the first republics in the world.
• 1871 The Great Chicago Fire breaks out and lasts until October 10. In the process, almost the entire city burns down.
• 1906 In London, German hairdresser Karl Ludwig Nessler presents a permanent wave apparatus he built.
• 1923 Berlin-Tempelhof Airport receives the provisional license for operation.
• 1939 During World War II, after the conquest of Poland, Adolf Hitler orders its territorial reorganization: the western territory is annexed by the German Reich, the remainder is occupied by Germany as the General Government. On October 26, the provisions take effect.
• 1955 French automaker Citroën presents the Citroën DS model designed by André Lefèbvre and Flaminio Bertoni at the Paris Motor Show.
• 1965 The International Olympic Committee decides to admit two German teams to the 1968 Olympic Games. At the same time, the GDR's NOC is admitted as a full member of the IOC.
• 1967 Che Guevara is arrested by the Bolivian army after a shootout near La Higuera. The next day he is shot without trial.
• 1981 The new Leipzig Gewandhaus is inaugurated.
• 1989 During a demonstration of several thousand people on Prager Strasse in Dresden, 20 demonstrators are selected to hold talks with Lord Mayor Wolfgang Berghofer the following day, the Group of 20.
• 2000 With Michael Schumacher, a Ferrari driver becomes Formula 1 World Champion for the first time in 21 years.
• 2005 In a severe earthquake in Kashmir, an area where the Indian continental plate moves northward against the Eurasian plate, around 80,000 people lose their lives.

Born on October 8

• 1883 Otto Warburg, German biochemist
• 1890 Henrich Focke, German entrepreneur
• 1920 Maxi Herber, German figure skater, Olympic champion
• 1920 Frank Herbert, US-American science fiction and fantasy author
• 1941 Jesse Jackson, US-American politician
• 1941 Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig, German jurist and politician
• 1960 Ralf Minge, German football player, coach and official
• 1970 Matt Damon, US-American actor
• 1970 Sadiq Khan, British politician
• 2002 Zheng Qinwen, Chinese tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „8. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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