Today in History: October 8, Pakistan-India border earthquake kills tens of thousands
In current times is Wednesday Oct the st day of There are days left in the year In current times in history On Oct a magnitude earthquake on the Pakistan-India perimeter killed an estimated people Also on this date In the Great Chicago Fire began more than people died and more than structures were destroyed during the three-day blaze Related Articles Niles Stand-up comics Saudi conflict a warm-up for Six Flags Supreme Court seems skeptical about state bans on conversion therapy for LBGTQ kids Bipartisan US governors group faces division over Trump s deployment of troops to states Interest in women s sports is growing Here s how specific women-owned companies are responding Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown In Don Larsen pitched the only perfect contest in a World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in Encounter - In scientists stated the Mars Pathfinder had yielded what could be the strongest evidence yet that Mars might once have been hospitable to life In a federal judge approved President George W Bush s request to reopen West Coast ports ending a -day labor lockout that was costing the U S financial system an estimated billion to billion a day In Donald Trump vowed to continue his campaign after multiple Republicans called on him to abandon his presidential bid in the wake of the release of a video in which he made lewd remarks about women and appeared to condone sexual assault In executives in Michigan stated six men had been charged with conspiring to kidnap Democratic Gov Gretchen Whitmer in reaction to what they viewed as her uncontrolled power In an explosion caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia damaging an fundamental supply artery for the Kremlin s war effort in southern Ukraine In two pioneers of artificial intelligence Canadian John Hopfield and American Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in physics for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way people work and live In contemporary times s Birthdays Actor Paul Hogan is Civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson is Comedian Chevy Chase is Author R L Stine is Actor Sigourney Weaver is Musician Robert Kool Bell Kool the Gang is Producer-director Edward Zwick is NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott is Comedian Darrell Hammond is Actor Kim Wayans is Gospel singer CeCe Winans is Olympic gold medal swimmer Matt Biondi is Actor Karyn Parsons is Singer-producer Teddy Riley is Actor Matt Damon is Actor-TV host Nick Cannon is Singer-songwriter Bruno Mars is Actor Angus T Jones is Actor-singer Bella Thorne is
