Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 8
- 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.
- 1871: Two historic fires, the Great Chicago Fire and Wisconsin's Peshtigo Fire, broke out in the U.S. Midwest.
- 1962: The Spiegel scandal: Newsmagazine Der Spiegel uncovered the sorry state of the West German armed forces (the Bundeswehr), then facing the communist threat from the east. The magazine was accused of treason shortly afterwards.
- 1967: Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara (pictured) was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
- 2005: A major earthquake killed over 74,500 people in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.
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