📜 This Day in History

October 8

• 451The Council of Chalcedon, a Christian ecumenical council, opened, and went on to repudiate the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
• 1918World War I: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the Meuse–Argonne offensive in France's Forest of Argonne, American Corporal Alvin York led the 7 remaining men on an attack against a German machine gun nest; 25 German soldiers were killed and 132 captured.
• 1952Three trains collided at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London, killing 112 people and injuring 340 others.
• 1969Demonstrations organized by the Weather Underground known as the Days of Rage began in Chicago, aimed at ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
• 1998A 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.
• 2019Anti-government protests calling for free and fair elections began in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Born on this day

• 1949Sigourney Weaver, American actress and producer
• 1958Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian-German physician and politician, Defense Minister of Germany, President of the European Commission
• 1970Matt Damon, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1985Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor