Monday Open Thread: October 8 is the 281st day of the year
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 10/08/2018 - 5:00am
October 8 is also Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 62, 3184 YOLD (discordian)
October 8
Sunday Open Thread: October 8th is the Feast of San Ernesto among Bolivian campesinos
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 10/08/2017 - 5:00amWorld History this day
1480 -- A standoff on the Ugra river between Akhmat Khan and Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia. ***
1856 -- The Second Opium War between China and assorted western powers began
1912 -- First Balkan War began
1939 -- Germany annexed western Poland.
1967 -- Che Guevara and his men were captured.
