Historical Events  -  October 8

 1932 : The Indian Air Force was established by the Indian Air Force Act.

1939 : In World War II, Germany annexed western Poland.

1962 : Algeria entered the United Nations.

1978 : Ken Warby, Australian motorboat racer, who currently holds the water speed record of 317.58 miles per hour.

1982 : Poland banned Solidarity and all other trade unions.

2001 : US President George W. Bush established the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

2005 : A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Kashmir killed at least 86,000-87,500 people, injured 69,000-72,500, and left 2.8 million homeless.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 8  

1850: Henry Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist.

1889: Collett E. Woolman, co-founder of Delta Airlines.

1891: Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, an Indian entrepreneur, writer, and illustrator.

1911: Ram Dass Katari, the 3rd Chief of the Naval Staff. He was the first Indian to hold the office and succeeded the last British officer to the post.

1922: Dr. G. N. Ramachandran, Indian Researcher, an internationally renowned biophysicist.

1924: Thirunalloor Karunakaran, an Indian poet, and scholar.

1926: Raaj Kumar (Kulabhushan Pandit), Indian actor.

1930: Alasdair Milne, an Indian-English director, and producer.

1960: Reed Hastings, an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Netflix.

1985: Bruno Mars, American singer, and songwriter.

Death Anniversaries   – October 8

1317: Emperor Fushimi of Japan.

1793: John Hancock, an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American revolutionary.

1869: Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States.

1936: (Dhanpatrai Srivastava) Munshi Premchand, Indian-Hindi writer.

1967: Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of England.

1979: Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom activist, an omniscient leader.

2012: Naval Kishore Sharma, Indian Union Minister and Governor of Gujarat, India.

2012: Varsha Bhosale, Indian journalist, and playback singer.

2020: Ram Vilas Paswan, an Indian politician.