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October 8

4 sourced moments from October 8 in history: The deadliest American wildfire burned Peshtigo, Wisconsin (1871); The Great Chicago Fire gutted a tinder-dry city (1871); Che Guevara was captured by US-trained Bolivian Rangers (1967), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on October 8

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2005 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

The Kashmir Earthquake Killed Tens of Thousands

When a buried Himalayan fault finally slipped one autumn morning, whole mountain towns collapsed in seconds across northern Pakistan and Kashmir.

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1967 History · Modern

Che Guevara was captured by US-trained Bolivian Rangers

On 8 October 1967 a Bolivian Ranger battalion trained by Green Berets cornered Che's last seventeen guerrillas — with a CIA officer attached.

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1871 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

The deadliest American wildfire burned Peshtigo, Wisconsin

On the same night the world watched Chicago burn, a far deadlier firestorm erased a Wisconsin lumber town.

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1871 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

The Great Chicago Fire gutted a tinder-dry city

After a parched summer, a fire in a southwest-side barn raced through wooden Chicago and left a third of the city homeless.

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