On this day, October 8: The Kashmir earthquake kills tens of thousands in Pakistan and India

October 8 (UPI) – On this date in history:

In 1871, a massive fire in Chicago destroyed more than 17,000 buildings, killed more than 300 people and left 100,000 homeless.

In 1912, Montenegro declared war on the Ottoman Empire, beginning the First Balkan War. “Irreconcilable differences between the great powers… now loom as the most serious threat to the situation in the Balkans.”

In 1918 Sgt. Alvin York of Tennessee became a World War I hero by single-handedly capturing a hill as part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, killing 20 enemy soldiers and capturing 132 others.

In 1956, Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the only perfect game in the World Series, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5. Larsen told the United Press that he “was so interested in the whole thing that I almost fell over.”

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In 1969, Days of Rage demonstrations, organized by the Weather Underground, took place in Chicago. Diana – The Making of Terrorists is UPI's Pulitzer Prize-winning profile of Weather Underground member Diana Oughton.

In 1982, Cats opened on Broadway, delighting audiences around the world for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

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In 1991, a US federal judge in Anchorage approved a $1 billion settlement against Exxon over the Valdez oil spill.

In 1993, the US Department of Justice, in its report on the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, concluded that the cult caused the fire that destroyed the compound and killed at least 75 people.

In 1997, three years after the death of North Korean ruler Kim Il Sung, his son Kim Jong Il officially inherited his father's title of General Secretary of the Communist Party.

In 2003, redesigned peach-colored $20 bills made their official debut throughout the United States.

In 2004, the Nobel Peace Prize went for the first time to an African woman, Wangari Maathai, an environmental activist from Kenya.

In 2005, tens of thousands of people were killed by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Pakistan. Most of the victims were in the Kashmir region and others in India. The death toll in what became known as the Kashmir earthquake was eventually put at around 79,000, with more than 100,000 people injured and the number displaced estimated in the millions.

In 2010, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was honored for co-authoring a document calling for democratic reforms in China. He was granted parole after being diagnosed with cancer and died in 2017.

In 2022, a truck bomb exploded on the Crimean Bridge, killing five people and causing parts of the bridge to collapse in the Kerch Strait. Kyiv admitted to causing the explosion, which weakened Russia's ability to supply troops, and admitted to invading Ukraine.

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