October 8th (2008) was a Wednesday. It's the 281st day of the year (282nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days left to the end of the year.
October 8th Famous Deaths for 2008
» Bob Friend (newscaster) or Bob Friend, English journalist (b. 1938)
» George Emil Palade, Romanian biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
October 8th Holidays in History
» Indian Air Force e.g Air Force Day (India)
» Christian Calendar of saints or Feast Day:
» Palatias and Laurentia
» Saint Pelagia or Pelagia (Roman Catholic Church)
» Che Guevara in popular culture .22Saint Ernesto.22 in Bolivia known as San Ernesto, Che Guevera as a saint. (Bolivian campesinos)
» William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard T. Ely (Episcopal Church (USA))
» October 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Earliest day on which Columbus Day United States observance named Columbus Day can fall, while October 14 is the latest; observed on the second Monday of October (United States)
» Earliest day on which International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction can fall, while October 14 is the latest; observed on the second Wednesday of October (Hawaii)
» Earliest day on which the first day of Fire Prevention Week can fall, while October 14 is the latest; observed on the second week of October. (United States and Canada)
» Independence Day (Croatia) known as Independence Day, celebrates the official separation of Croatia from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia known as Yugoslavia in 1991.