translated from Spanish: Events: what happened on 8 October?

in an October 8, but in 1851, just after almost nine years the site of Montevideo, which virtually ends the “big war” in Uruguay, by the rivalry between the parties “Colorado” and “White”.
Other Ephemerides: 1469-die Filippo Lippi, Italian painter.
1515 Lepe (Huelva, South of Spain) leaves an expedition under the command of Juan Díaz de Solís, who discovered the Mar del Plata or Solis, current estuary of the Plata.
1804 Juan Jacobo Dessalines was proclaimed emperor of Haiti, after the expulsion of the French from the island.
1812 Carlos de Alvear and San Martín José demolished to the Government of Bernardino Ribadavia and establishing a second triumvirate in Argentina.
1814. opening of the Congress of Vienna, which aimed to rebuild Europe’s borders, distorted by the conquests of Napoleon.
1871 he started a great fire in Chicago, two days destroyed more than 17,000 buildings and causing 200 deaths.
1879 battle of Angamos in the war between Chile and Peru.
1881-inauguration of the railway line Madrid-Lisbon, presided over by the Kings of Spain and Portugal, Alfonso XII, and Luis I, respectively.
1895-born Juan Domingo Perón, Argentine statesman.
1896-born Julien Duvivier, French filmmaker.
1898-first issue of the Argentinian magazine “Caras y caretas”, of great diffusion in the Spanish-speaking world.
1917 León Trotski is elected President of the Soviet de San Petersburgo.
1927 born Cesar Milstein, biochemist. Born in Argentina and nationalized British, he received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1984.
1941-born Jesse Jackson, preacher and American politician.
1949-born Sigourney Weaver, American actress.
1950 Korea war. US troops of general MacArthur crossed the 38th parallel, limit of the two Koreas, with UN authorization.
1970-born Matt Damon, American actor.
–Born Sadiq Aman Khan, British politician of Pakistani origin.
1973-death of Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher.
1985-born Bruno Mars (Peter Gene Hernandez), singer, composer, music producer, and American choreographer.
1991 in Washington,-the Kings of Spain inaugurated an exhibition, organized by the National Gallery, around 1492.
1992-the Kings of Spain inaugurated the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, which houses, in 48 rooms, 800 pictures in the collection of baron Thyssen in Madrid.
-Death of Willy Brandt, German Socialist politician.
1998. the Portuguese writer José Saramago is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
1999 British court authorizes the extradition of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on torture charges 34.
2001. the Colombian Congressman Luis Alfredo Colmenares, of the opposition Liberal Party, is assassinated in Bogota.
-118 people die when it hit at the Milan Linate airport, in Italy, a light aircraft with a passenger plane.
2004 resigns the Secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Miguel Angel Rodriguez, after issuing a Court of Costa Rica international arrest for bribery, corruption and illicit enrichment during his time as President.
2005. an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale devastated Kashmir, the India-Pakistan border. The quake causes 90,000 dead in Pakistan and 1,300 in the India.
The 2010 Chinese dissident Liu Xiabo wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
2011.-death of Roger Williams, American pianist.
-Die Mikey Wilsh, American musician (Weezer group exbajista).
2013.-death of Philip Chevron, Irish musician (The Pogues guitarist).
2014. the ebola its first fatality in the United States, charged the Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan.
2015 FIFA suspends its President, Joseph Blatter, and the Vice President and President of UEFA, Michel Platini, for alleged corruption in both organizations.

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