TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2019 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1361 - A duel occurs between a dog and the Frenchman who murdered his master.

1818 - Oxley discovers and names Port Macquarie.

1871 - The Great Chicago Fire begins.

1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded. 1952 - 112 are killed as three trains crash at Harrow, London.

1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.

1982 - In Poland, all labour organisations, including Solidarity, were banned.

1998 - Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.

1998 - Canada and Netherlands were voted into the UN Security Council.

2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.

2003 - China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.

2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.

Birthdays

Paul Hogan 1939 - Actor Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940

Jesse Jackson 1941 - Civil rights leader

George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941

Buzz Clifford 1942

R.L. Stine 1943 - Author Chevy Chase 1943 - Actor, comedian

Susan Raye 1944

Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947

Sarah Purcell 1948

Brian Glenwright 1949 Sigourney Weaver 1949 Actress

Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949

Robert “Kool” Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950

C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965Matt Damon 1970 - Actor Kristanna Loken 1979 - Actress Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979 Bruno Mars 1985 - Singer, songwriter

Angus T. Jones 1993 - Actor