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1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit on October - 08. 
1970 On this day in history jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1971 On October - 08 john Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1971 Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51 on October - 08.
1973 On this day in history gabriel Marcel, writer, dies
1975 Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.
1978 On October - 08 jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49
1979 June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68 on this day in history.
1981 On this day in history pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1982 Poland bans Solidarity on this day in history.
1982 On October - 08 fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67
1983 Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49 on October - 08.
1984 Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke on October - 08.
1985 Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat on October - 08.
1988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage on October - 08.
1988 Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.
1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters on this day in history.
1990 US doctors Joseph E Murray and E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize on this day in history.
1991 A colonial-era burial site for African-American slaves is discovered in New York by construction crew on October - 08.
1991 Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75 on this day in history.
1992 On October - 08 willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78
1993 On October - 08 manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73
1994 On October - 08 brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55
1995 Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48 on this day in history.
1996 Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70 on this day in history.
2005 On October - 08 an earthquake in Kashmir kills about 80,00 people.
2005 On October - 08 kashmir earthquake in India, Pakistan killing 87,351 people
2007 On October - 08 track and field star Marion Jones surrenders her five Olympic medals she won in the 2000 Sydney Games after admitting to doping.
2012 On October - 08 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
2013 On this day in history peter Higgs and François Englert win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles
2014 On this day in history the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
2017 Wildfires ignite in Northern Californian wine country, killing at least 41 over the next week, with 20,000 evacutated on October - 08.
2018 New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees becomes NFL's all-time leader in passing yards; needs 201 yards to pass Peyton Manning's record; gets 363 & 3 TD's in Saints 43-19 win v Washington Redskins at the SuperDome on October - 08.
2018 Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results on October - 08.
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