Today is a special Day.

On This Day: Friday, October 8, 2004

This is the 282nd day of the year, with 84 days remaining in 2004.
Holidays:
Feast day of St Simeon Senex, St Pelagia (or Margaret) the Penitent, St Demetrius, St Keyne, St Thaïs, St Marcellus, and St Reparata of Caesarea.
Peru: Day of the Navy.
Nepal: Gai Jatra.

Events
1085 - St Mark's Cathedral in Venice was consecrated.
1840 - King William I of Holland abdicates.
1862 - Union and Confederate forces fought at Perryville, Kentucky in a one-day battle that stopped the South's attempt to bring that border state into the Confederacy.
1871 - The Great Chicago Fire started after a cow reportedly kicks over a lantern in the barn of Mrs. O'Leary. Within hours, the strong winds engulfed the center of the city in flames and within three hours jumps the Chicago River. Damage was estimated at $200 million, 90,000 Chicagoans were made homeless, and at least 300 people died.
1871 - One of the most disastrous forest fires in history began at Peshtigo, Wisdon, burning six counties and killing more than 1100 people.
1906 - Karl Ludwig Nessler of London demonstrates the first machine to put permenant waves in hair. It is a six-hour process.
1912 - The First Balkan War (against Turkey) began -- from which World War I arose.
1915 - The Battle of Loos, in World War I, ended.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the US begins, with 63 planes competing in the round-trip aerial derby between California and New York. Lieutenant Belvin W. Maynard, flying a Havilland-4 with a Liberty motor, wins the 5,400-mile race across the continent and back.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1938 - Norman Rockwell published his famous self-portrait in the Saturday Evening Post.
1939 - Western Poland was incorporated in the Third Reich.
1945 - President Harry Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1956 - Don Larsen pitched the first (and only, to date) perfect game in the World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
1982 - All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.
1989 - The Latvian Popular Front announced its intention to seek independence from the USSR.

Births
1810 - James Wilson Marshall, discoverer of gold in the American West.
1838 - John Milton Hay, diplomat and statesman, poet, and author.
1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker, figher pilot in World War I, aviation pioneer, and airlines executive.
1895 - Juan Peron, President of Argentina (1946-1955 and 1973-74).
1941 - Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader.

Deaths
1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the US (1853-1857).

Well today is a good day. So everyone must be happy today. It's a day, special in every way. =D
Tat's all folks. Good day ahead :)