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Historical Events on October 8

  • San Francisco

    1860

    Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.

  • Battle of Perryville

    1862

    American Civil War: Battle of Perryville: Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.

  • Ralph Talbot

    1918

    World War I: In action near Pittem, Belgium, USMC 2nd Lieutenant aviator Ralph Talbot of Weymouth, Massachusetts becomes the first-ever USMC aviator to earn the Medal of Honor.

  • Alvin C. York

    1918

    World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor.

  • Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany

    1939

    World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.

  • Richard Nixon

    1970

    Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a manoeuvre to deceive world opinion".

  • Yom Kippur War

    1973

    Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade unsuccessfully attacks Egyptian-occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away; more than 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.

  • Yugoslavia

    1991

    Croatia and Slovenia vote to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia.

  • United States Department of Homeland Security

    2001

    U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

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