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Person born on 08 October
1844 - Badruddin Tyab ji - was a famous Indian lawyer, judge, leader of the Indian National Congress.
1911 - Vice Admiral Ramdas Katari - This was an Indian Navy officer. He was the first Indian to hold the post.
1928 - Neil Harvey, cricketer batsman for Australia team, was born.
1981 - Mona Singh - An Indian film actress.
Died on 08 October
1936 - Premchand - India's famous Hindi story writer, litterateur, writer, editor, journalist, novelist.
1979 - Jayaprakash Narayan - was the leader of the Indian Total Revolution and a freedom fighter.
1990 - Kamalapati Tripathi - Indian politician, writer, journalist and freedom fighter.
2020 - Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan passed away at the age of 74.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 08 October
- National Hero Day.
- American Touch Tag Day.
- National Pierogi Day.
- World Octopus Day.
- National Fluffernutter Day.
- Indian Air Force Day.
- Shri Munshi Premchand death anniversary.
- International Podiatry Day.
- International Off-Road Day.
- Shri jaiprakash narayan death anniversary
Important Events of 08 October
1769 - Captain Cook sets foot in New Zealand.
1809 - Prince Clemens von Metternich becomes Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire.
1821 – The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
1856 - The Second Opium War between China and the British begins.
1871 - A fierce fire broke out in the city of Chicago, USA. The fire, which lasted for two days, killed 300 people and destroyed 17,450 homes. Also, about one lakh people became homeless.
1932 - Indian Air Force established. Then it was formed as an auxiliary air force of the British Raj.
1962 - In North Korea, 100 percent voting is held in the election and the Workers' Party gets all the votes.
1973 - LBC, Britain's first independent radio station, opens.
1996 - About 50 countries agree to a worldwide ban on landmines at a conference in Ottawa.
1998 - India became a member of 'Flight Safety Foundation'.
2000 - Vojoslav Kostunica becomes President of Yugoslavia.
2000 - Israel, Palestine and the United States agree to form a Tripartite Crisis Management Group to solve the Gaza Strip problem.
2001 – A fire breaks out after two planes collided at Milan airport in Italy, killing 114 people.
2002 - Pakistan re-tests Shaheen missile.
2003 - Miss Venezuela Gojedor Ejua captured the title at the Miss International pageant held in Tokyo.
2003 - The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Shirin Ebadi of Iran.
2004 - Monsanto's patent on Indian wheat revoked.
2004 – The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Kenyan environmentalist Wangri Maathai.
2005 - A severe earthquake in South Asia takes thousands of lives.
2007 - Mohamed Naseem, former home minister of Bangladesh, was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
2019 - India received the first Rafale fighter jet from France. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh took off in the plane in Marienac, France.
2019 – The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics was announced to three scientists James Peebles, Michael Mayer and Didier Queloz.
2019 - 19 year old Japanese painting sold for Rs 177 crore in just 10 minutes.
2019 - 20 new moons of Saturn were discovered, now there are 82 moons, more than the 79 moons of Jupiter.
2020 - The UAE conducts more corona tests than its population, becoming the first country in the world to do so.
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