Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 8
- 451: The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council in Christianity, opened. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
- 1871: Two historic fires, the Great Chicago Fire and Wisconsin's Peshtigo Fire, broke out in the U.S. Midwest.
- 1895: Queen Min, the last empress of Korea, was assassinated.
- 1962: The Spiegel scandal: Newsmagazine Der Spiegel uncovered the sorry state of the West German armed forces (the Bundeswehr), then facing the communist threat from the east. The magazine was accused of treason shortly afterwards.
- 1967: Che Guevara (pictured), an Argentine-born physician, Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader, was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
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