Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 8

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  Don Larsen baseball card
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  Cosette from Les Misérables
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  Victor Hugo
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  Battle of Angamos
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  The Great Chicago Fire
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  Downtown Edmonton skyline
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  Lithograph depicting the Great Chicago Fire
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  Remnant of Kepler's Supernova

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Navy Day in Peru (1821);	unreferenced section
Independence Day in Croatia (1991)	it looks like it's been moved to 25 June and article has been amended thus
1076 – Demetrius Zvonimir, the last native king who exerted any real power over the entire Croatian state, was crowned.	ambiguous date
1200 – Isabella of Angoulême was crowned queen consort of England at the age of twelve, after having married King John two weeks earlier.	close, but not quite (several uncited paragraphs that don't have CN tags yet)
1600 – San Marino, the world's oldest constitutional republic, adopted its written constitution.	refimprove
1604 – Kepler's Supernova (remnant pictured), the most recent supernova in the Milky Way, was observed worldwide.	Date not cited in article
1821 – The Peruvian Navy was established by the government of José de San Martín.	unreferenced section
1856 – Officials of the Chinese Qing dynasty arrested and imprisoned twelve people aboard the Hong Kong-registered ship Arrow for suspected piracy and smuggling, sparking the Second Opium War.	many Template:Tl tags (24)
1862 – The Battle of Perryville, a battle of the American Civil War with a high casualty count, was fought west of Perryville, Kentucky.	Uncited paragraphs
1879 – The Chilean Navy defeated the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, a decisive encounter during the War of the Pacific.	refimprove
1895 – Myeongseong, the only empress of Korea, was assassinated.	multiple issues
1904 – The Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta (Downtown Edmonton pictured), was incorporated.	lots of cn
1985 – The musical Les Misérables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, opened in London's Barbican Centre, starting its run as the longest-running West End musical in history.	refimprove section
2001 – In response to the September 11 attacks, U.S. president George W. Bush announced the creation of the Office of Homeland Security, with former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge as its director.	unreferenced sections
2005 – A major earthquake centered in Kashmir killed over 74,500 people and injured at least 106,000 others in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.	unreferenced section
Pilgrim I |d|923|	Uncited death date
Mary Beale |bur|1699|	Burial date uncited (as the death date is known, it's unclear why buried is being featured). Other citation needed tags
Yongzheng Emperor |d|1735|	Too much uncited
William John Swainson |b|1789|	unreferenced section
Kikunae Ikeda |b|1864|	Birthday not cited
Felipe Camiroaga |b|1966	unreferenced section
Malcolm Ross |d|1985|	Too much uncited
Willy Brandt |d|1992|	Too much uncited
George Emil Palade |d|2008|	Not cited in article

Eligible

• 451 – The Council of Chalcedon, a Christian ecumenical council, opened, and went on to repudiate the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
• 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire (pictured), began and proceeded to destroy much of the city's central business district, killing 300 people and leaving 90,000 others homeless.
• 1918 – World War I: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the Meuse–Argonne offensive in France's Forest of Argonne, American Corporal Alvin York led the 7 remaining men on an attack against a German machine gun nest; 25 German soldiers were killed and 132 captured.
• 1932 – The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of the British Royal Air Force.
• 1956 – Major League Baseball pitcher Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in World Series history.
• 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.
• 2001 – At Linate Airport in Milan, Italy, Scandinavian Airlines Flight SK686 collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation II business jet, killing 118 people.
• 2016 – Yemen War: A funeral in Sanaa was hit by two consecutive airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition, leaving 143–155 civilians dead and more than 525 injured.

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• 1862 – In the American Civil War, the Battle of Perryville was fought west of Perryville, Kentucky.
• 1952 – Three trains collided (aftermath pictured) at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London, killing 112 people and injuring 340 others.
• 1969 – Demonstrations organized by the Weather Underground known as the Days of Rage began in Chicago, aimed at ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
• 1995 – The Croatian Army and Croatian Defence Council launched Operation Southern Move, their last offensive in the Bosnian War.
• 2019 – Anti-government protests calling for free and fair elections began in Baku, Azerbaijan.