Hankering for History's TODAY IN HISTORY, OCTOBER 8TH

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, October 8th!

1840	King William I of Holland abdicates.
1855	Arrow, a ship flying the British flag, is boarded by Chinese who arrest the crew, thus beginning the Second Chinese War.
1862	The Union is victorious at the Battle of Perryville, the largest Civil War combat to take place in Kentucky.
1869	Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, died in Concord, N.H., at age 64. Franklin Pierce
1871	The Great Chicago Fire begins in southwest Chicago, possibly in a barn owned by Patrick and Katherine O’Leary. Fanned by strong southwesterly winds, the flames raged for more than 24 hours, eventually leveling three and a half square miles and wiping out one-third of the city. Approximately 250 people were killed in the fire; 98,500 people were left homeless; 17,450 buildings were destroyed.
1897	Journalist Charles Henry Dow, founder of the Wall Street Journal, begins charting trends of stocks and bonds.
1900	Maximilian Harden is sentenced to six months in prison for publishing an article critical of the German Kaiser.
1906	Karl Ludwig Nessler first demonstrates a machine in London that puts permenant waves in hair. The client wears a dozen brass curlers, each wearing two pounds, for the six-hour process.
1912	First Balkan War begins as Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
1918	US Army corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 in the Argonne Forest; promoted to sergeant and awarded US Medal of Honor and French Croix de Guerre.
1918	American Army Sgt. Alvin York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.
1919	The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives pass the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Bill.
1921	First live radio broadcast of a football game; Harold W. Arlin was the announcer when KDKA of Pittsburgh broadcast live from Forbes Field as the University of Pittsburgh beat West Virginia University 21–13.
1922	Lilian Gatlin becomes the first woman pilot to fly across the United States. Lillian Gatlin
1932	Indian Air Force established.
1939	Nazi Germany annexes Western Poland.
1944	“The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” debuted on CBS Radio.
1945	President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1956	Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitches the first perfect game in World Series history against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1956	Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5.
1959	Margaret Thatcher was first elected to the British Parliament as a Conservative representing the north London suburb of Finchley.
1967	Guerrilla Che Guevara captured in Bolivia.
1968	U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation SEALORDS (South East Asia Lake, Ocean, River and Delta Strategy), an attack on communist supply lines and base areas in and around the Mekong Delta.
1969	The “Days of Rage” begin in Chicago; the Weathermen faction of the Students for a Democratic Society initiate 3 days of violent antiwar protests.
1970	Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
1973	In the Yom Kippur War an Israeli armored brigade makes an unsuccessful attack on Egyptian positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal.
1978	Ken Warby of Australia sets the world water speed record, 317.60 mph, at Blowering Dam in Australia; no other human has yet (2013) exceeded 300 mph on water and survived.
1982	Poland banned all labor organizations, including Solidarity.
1985	The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and dumped his body and wheelchair overboard.