Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 8
This is a list of selected October 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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October 8: Yom Kippur begins at sunset (Judaism, 2008); Independence Day in Croatia
- 451 – The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council in Christianity, opened. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
- 1600 – San Marino, the world's oldest constitutional republic, adopted its written constitution.
- 1879 – The Chilean Navy defeated the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos (pictured), a decisive encounter during the War of the Pacific.
- 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.
- 2005 – A major earthquake centred in Kashmir killed over 74,500 people and injured at least 106,000 others in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.