8th October anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1891
  • Great Britain
  • "The UK's 1st official street collections for charity, mainly in Manchester and Salford, in aid of the RNLI"
  • 1919
  • The first Transcontinental Air Race in the US began (ended 11th October)
  • 1934
  • United States
  • "Bruno Hauptmann, an illegal German immigrant, was charged with the murder of American aviation pioneer Charles Lindberghs infant son"
  • 1938
  • "American artist Norman Rockwell published his famous self-portrait of himself staring at a blank canvas, in the ‘Saturday Evening Post’."
  • 1939
  • Germany annexed western Poland and incorporated it into the Third Reich
  • 1952
  • "Harrow & Wealdstone rail crash, 112 killed"
  • 1974
  • United States
  • President Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal
  • 1990
  • Britain joins the Exchange Rate Mechanism
  • 1993
  • The United Nations General Assembly lifted economic sanctions against South Africa following the end of apartheid.
• Death