October 8: Independence Day in Croatia (1991)
Gustav Mahler
- 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême was crowned queen consort of England at the age of twelve, after having married King John two weeks earlier.
- 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.
- 1897 – Composer Gustav Mahler (pictured) was appointed the director of the Vienna Court Opera.
- 1932 – The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of the Indian Empire.
- 1962 – Newsmagazine Der Spiegel revealed the unpreparedness of the West German armed forces against the communist threat from the east, and was accused of treason shortly afterwards.
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