Today in History for 8th October 2022

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Historical Events

1813 - Treaty of Ried between Bavaria and Austria
1982 - Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions
1984 - NBC's premiere of TV made "The Burning Bed", based on Francine Hughes
1988 - Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1992 - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
2018 - Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results

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Famous Birthdays

1838 - John Milton Hay, American politician (Union), born in Salem, Indiana (d. 1905)
1919 - Mac Anderson, New Zealand cricketer (played in 1st NZ-Aust Test 1946), born in Westport, West Coast, New Zealand (d. 1979)
1924 - Alphons Egli, Swiss politcian and member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 2016)
1931 - Bill Brown, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (28 caps; Dundee, Tottenham Hotspur), born in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland (d. 2004)
1971 - Monty Williams, American basketball head coach and executive (Phoenix Suns 2019; New Orleans Hornets / Pelicans 2010-15) and NBA forward/guard (San Antonio Spurs), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia
1981 - Ruby [Rania Hussein Muhammad Tawfiq], Egyptian singer ("Do You Know Why") and actress (The Baby Doll Night), born in Cairo, Egypt

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Famous Deaths

976 - Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
1094 - St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos ministry in Venice
1974 - Harry Carney, American tenor and baritone jazz saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-74), dies at 64
2008 - George E. Palade, Romanian-American cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel 1974), dies at 95
2008 - Eileen Herlie [Herlihy], Scottish-American actress (All My Children; The Angel with the Trumpet), dies of complications from pneumonia at 90
2011 - Antonio Iglesias Álvares, Spanish pianist, composer, educator and critic, dies at 93

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