October 8: Independence Day in Croatia (1991)
Gustav Mahler
- 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.
- 1897 – Composer Gustav Mahler (pictured) was appointed the director of the Vienna Court Opera.
- 1952 – Three trains collided at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London killing 112 people and injuring 340.
- 1967 – Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
- 1998 – A new airport for Oslo, Norway, opened at Gardermoen, replacing a smaller one at the same location that had served as a backup to the city's previous main airport at Fornebu.
William John Swainson (b. 1789) · Ellen Wilkinson (b. 1891) · Wendell Willkie (d. 1944)
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