October 8 - Matching

Matching

This Day In History

451

At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins.

1200

Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.

1600

San Marino adopts its written constitution.

1829

Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.

1871

Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.

1921

KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

1956

New York Yankee Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 20 perfect games in MLB history.

1978

Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.

1982

Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

Famous Birthdays

1585

Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)

1676

Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)

1789

William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)

1875

Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (d. 1919)

1883

Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)

1890

Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter pilot and airline executive (d. 1973)

1897

Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (d. 1987)

1913

Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000)

1920

Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)

1938

William Corlett, English children's author (d. 2005)

1943

Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor
R. L. Stine, American author

1948

Johnny Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2004)
1949
Sigourney Weaver, American actress
1956
Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress
1965
C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1968
Emily Procter, American actress
1969
Dylan Neal, Canadian actor
1970
Matt Damon, American actor
1993
Molly C. Quinn, American actress