The New York Times Events the occurred on October 8 By The Associated Press 1869 Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, died in Concord, N.H., at age 64. 1871 The Great Chicago Fire erupted. The blaze destroyed four square miles of the city, killing about 250 people and leaving some 90,000 homeless. 1918 American Army Sgt. Alvin York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. 1944 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet debuted on CBS Radio. 1945 President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada. 1956 Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5. 1959 Margaret Thatcher was first elected to the British Parliament as a Conservative representing the north London suburb of Finchley. 1970 Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. 1982 Poland banned all labor organizations, including Solidarity. 1985 The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and dumped his body and wheelchair overboard. 2001 Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security. 2004 Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart reported to prison to begin serving a sentence for lying about a stock sale. 2005 A major earthquake flattened villages on the Pakistan-India border, killing an estimated 86,000 people. 2011 Al Davis, the Hall of Fame owner of the Oakland Raiders, died at age 82.
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