Historical Events on October 8.

1. Indian Air Force Day

2. 1932, 8th October: The Indian Air Force was established by the Indian Air Force Act.

3. 1939, 8th October: In World War II, Germany annexed western Poland.

4. 1962, 8th October: Algeria entered the United Nations.

5. 1978, 8th October: Ken Warby, Australian motorboat racer, who currently holds the water speed record of 317.58 miles per hour.

6. 1982, 8th October: Poland banned Solidarity and all other trade unions.

7. 2001, 8th October: US President George W. Bush established the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

8. 2005, 8th October: A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Kashmir killed at least 86,000-87,500 people, injured 69,000-72,500, and left 2.8 million homeless.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 8.

1. 1850: Henry Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist.

2. 1889: Collett E. Woolman, co-founder of Delta Airlines.

3. 1891: Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, an Indian entrepreneur, writer, and illustrator.

4. 1911: Ram Dass Katari, the 3rd Chief of the Naval Staff. He was the first Indian to hold the office and succeeded the last British officer to the post

5. 1922: Dr. G. N. Ramachandran, Indian Researcher, an internationally renowned biophysicist.

6. 1924: Thirunalloor Karunakaran, an Indian poet, and scholar.

7. 1926: Raaj Kumar (Kulabhushan Pandit), Indian actor.

8. 1930: Alasdair Milne, an Indian-English director, and producer.

9. 1960: Reed Hastings, an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Netflix.

10. 1985: Bruno Mars, American singer, and songwriter.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 8.

1. 1317: Emperor Fushimi of Japan.

2. 1793: John Hancock, an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American revolutionary.

3. 1869: Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States.

4. 1936: (Dhanpatrai Srivastava) Munshi Premchand, Indian-Hindi writer.

5. 1967: Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of England.

6. 1979: Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom activist, an omniscient leader.

7. 2012: Naval Kishore Sharma, Indian Union Minister and Governor of Gujarat, India.

8. 2012: Varsha Bhosale, Indian journalist, and playback singer.

9. 2020: Ram Vilas Paswan, an Indian politician.

8-October-1880

Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder of National India Party, was born.

8-October-1911

Ramdas Katari, former Navy Chief, was born.

8-October-1911

Sarobindu Nath Banerjee 'Shute', cricket all rounder played one test vs West Indies, was born at Calcutta.

8-October-1919

Mahatma Gandhi started publication of 'Young India'.

8-October-1921

Indian nationalists call a general strike on Prince of Wales's arrival in Bombay.

8-October-1927

Raaj Kumar, famous Hindi film actor, was born.

8-October-1932

The Indian Air Force was officially established, being the date of its formal constitution as India's first Air Force.

8-October-1978

Jayaprakash Narayan died.

8-October-1979

Loknayak Jayprakash Harsudayal Narayan, veteran socialist leader, passed away at the age of 76. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna on Dec. 23, 1998 and played a key role in the formation of Janta Party which defeated Indian National Congress for the first time.

8-October-1982

Indian Air Force celebrates 50 years.

8-October-1990

Veteran freedom fighter and Congress leader Kamalapati Tripathi (86) died.

8-October-1991

B.B. Lyngdoh, Meghalaya CM, loses vote of confidence in the assembly.

8-October-1992

RBI announces 1\% cut in the lending and deposit rates.

8-October-1993

The squadron did itself proud by flying the "Big Boy Formation" with one IL-76 in lead and two AN-32 of the Squadron in formation on the occasion of the Air Force Day.

8-October-1998

16 policemen are killed when their vehicle is blown up by PWG naxalites on the Basaguda-Jagargunda road in Madhya Pradesh's Bastar division.

8-October-2000

Anup Sridhar and Trupti Murugunde claim the boys and girls title in the Sonora All India junior ranking tournament in Kozhikode.