History for October 8 - On-This-Day.com
Eddie Rickenbacker 1890, Paul Hogan 1939 - Actor ("Crocodile Dundee" movies), Jesse Jackson 1941 - Civil rights leader
Chevy Chase 1943 - Actor, comedian, Sigourney Weaver 1949 - Actress, Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment