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October 8

Lithograph depicting the Great Chicago Fire

1871 – The Great Chicago Fire (pictured), which according to popular belief was started by a cow belonging to Catherine O'Leary kicking over a lantern, began and proceeded to destroy much of the city's central business district.
1956 – Major League Baseball pitcher Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in World Series history.
1998 – A new airport for Oslo, Norway, opened at Gardermoen, replacing a smaller one at the same location that had served as a backup to the city's previous main airport at Fornebu.
2001 – At Linate Airport in Milan, Italy, Scandinavian Airlines Flight SK686 collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation II business jet, killing 118 people.

Edward Wright (bap 1561)
John Hancock (d. 1793)
Franklin Pierce (d. 1869)
Marilou Diaz-Abaya (d. 2012)

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