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From Wikipedia's newest articles:
- ... that the Plymouth Congregational Church of Lawrence, Kansas (pictured), the first church to be established in Kansas Territory, lost members to the Lawrence Massacre of 1863?
- ... that the anime film xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream was released on DVD and Blu-Ray alongside the film Tsubasa The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom?
- ... that a poll once found that 99 percent of Somalis in the United Kingdom listen to the BBC Somali Service?
- ... that the pygmy locust lobster is too small for fishing?
- ... that one of the six buildings in the Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District is the oldest extant house in Genesee County, New York?
- ... that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata disease in Minamata, Japan, as a medical student?
- ... that the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies gives the annual Una Padel Award in memory of its former director?
- ... that in Holy Trinity Church, Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, is a memorial to the poet Thomas Randolph who died while visiting Blatherwyke Hall?
- ... that Gay Street is the setting for events described in literary works by James Agee, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, and George Washington Harris?
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October 8: Navy Day in Peru (1821); Independence Day in Croatia (1991)
- 1600 – San Marino, the world's oldest constitutional republic, adopted its written constitution.
- 1856 – Officials of the Chinese Qing Dynasty arrested and imprisoned twelve people aboard the Hong Kong-registered ship Arrow for suspected piracy and smuggling, sparking the Second Opium War.
- 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire (pictured) broke out in Chicago, destroying 17,500 buildings and leaving 90,000 people homeless within two days.
- 1918 – World War I: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France's Forest of Argonne, United States Sergeant Alvin C. York led the seven remaining men on an attack against a German machine gun nest, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.
- 2005 – A major earthquake centered in Kashmir killed over 74,500 people and injured at least 106,000 others in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.
More anniversaries: October 7 – October 8 – October 9
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