This Day in History Oct. 8

Oct. 8

1806 Forces of the British Empire lay siege to Boulogne France by using Congreve rockets
1840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1860 Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1862 Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted
1871 Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago
1904 Edmonton, Alberta is incorporated as a city
1904 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan is incorporated as a city
1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London
1912 1st Balkan War begins
1918 Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans, receives Medal of Honor
1933 Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
1941 In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov
1944 Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs outside Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives Medal of Honor
1945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
1952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train,(England)
1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
1957 Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of the UN
1962 N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1968 United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta
1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
1974 Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement
1978 Ken Warby set the world water speed record at 319.627 mph
1981 Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1982 Poland bans Solidarity
1988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation
1990 US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize

Would be Yours True hatched this day along with Bill Elliot from Nascar.

Missed the Great Peshtigo fire where thousands were killed and the entire village of Peshtigo Wisconsin was destroyed save for one house.

the full line was

1871 ? Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.

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Peshtigo tragedy