Today in History

October 08

1952 - 112 people are killed as three trains crash at Harrow and Wealdstone station, a north-west suburb of London.

1967 - Che Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary, is captured.

1996 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat makes his first public visit to Israel.

2001 - An SAS airliner taking off for Denmark from Milan, Italy, hits a private jet and explodes, killing all 114 people on both planes and four people on the ground.

2002 - Pakistan conducts tests of a medium-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

2005 - A 7.5 magnitude quake kills thousands of people in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

2016 - Bangladeshi forces kill 11 suspected extremists in raids near Dhaka.