History for October 8

History for October 8 - On-This-Day.com
Eddie Rickenbacker 1890, Juan Peron 1895, Paul Hogan 1939 - Actor ("Crocodile Dundee" movies)


Jesse Jackson 1941 - Civil rights leader, Chevy Chase 1943 - Actor, comedian, Sigourney Weaver 1949 - Actress


1895 - The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.


1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.


1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.


1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.


1952 - "The Complete Book of Etiquette" was published for the first time.


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


1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.


2001 - Rush Limbaugh announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear. The condition had happened in a three month period.