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October 8: Yom Kippur begins at sunset (Judaism, 2008); Independence Day in Croatia

451 – The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council in Christianity, opened. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
1600 – San Marino, the world's oldest constitutional republic, adopted its written constitution.
1871 – Two historic fires, the Great Chicago Fire (artist's rendering pictured) and Wisconsin's Peshtigo Fire, broke out in the U.S. Midwest.
1879 – The Chilean Navy defeated the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, a decisive encounter during the War of the Pacific.
2005 – A major earthquake centred in Kashmir killed over 74,500 people and injured at least 106,000 others in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.

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