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Events and Birthdays on 8 October

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Events on this day, 8 October


Many hundreds of people die in Pakistan, north India and Afghanistan following a massive quake.

Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of California, ousting the incumbent, Gray Davis, three years before the end of his term of office.

Hectic trading in the City marks Britain's first day as a full member of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System.

The coroner's inquest jury into the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise returns verdicts of unlawful killing.

Britain's first independent radio station begins broadcasting on VHF and medium wave.

At least 85 people are killed in the UK's worst peacetime rail crash after three trains collide at Harrow and Wealdstone.


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