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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_8" title="October 8">October 8</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/451" title="451">451</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon" title="Council of Chalcedon">Council of Chalcedon</a></b> <i>(depicted)</i>, a Christian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_council" title="Ecumenical council">ecumenical council</a>, opened, and went on to repudiate the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutyches" title="Eutyches">Eutychian</a> doctrine of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monophysitism" title="Monophysitism">monophysitism</a> and set forth the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedonian_Definition" title="Chalcedonian Definition">Chalcedonian Creed</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse%E2%80%93Argonne_offensive" title="Meuse–Argonne offensive">Meuse–Argonne offensive</a> in France's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_of_Argonne" title="Forest of Argonne">Forest of Argonne</a>, American Corporal <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York" title="Alvin York">Alvin York</a></b> led the 7 remaining men on an attack against a German machine gun nest, killing at least 25 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932" title="1932">1932</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Air_Force" title="Indian Air Force">Indian Air Force</a></b> was founded as an auxiliary air force of the British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016" title="2016">2016</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war" title="Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war">Yemen War</a>: A funeral in Sanaa <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanaa_funeral_airstrike" title="Sanaa funeral airstrike">was hit by two consecutive airstrikes</a></b> by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi</a>-led coalition, leaving 143–155 civilians dead and more than 525 injured.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019" title="2019">2019</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Baku_protests" title="2019 Baku protests">Anti-government protests</a></b> calling for free and fair elections began in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>, Azerbaijan.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Sagezhi" title="Xiao Sagezhi">Xiao Sagezhi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 951); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Taylor_Mill" title="Harriet Taylor Mill">Harriet Taylor Mill</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1807); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Willkie" title="Wendell Willkie">Wendell Willkie</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1944); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsha_Bhosle" title="Varsha Bhosle">Varsha Bhosle</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2012)</p>
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