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Movie events on the 8th October

1869

Franklin Pierce dies. (Concord, New Hampshire) (The Great Moment)

1918

Alvin C. York is credited with single-handedly killing 25 German soldiers and capturing 132 in the Argonne Forest. (France) (Sergeant York)

American troops rush the German trenches, incurring heavy losses due to German machine gun nests. Sgt. Alvin York, being the only noncom left alive, assumes command and turns the German trenches into a turkey shoot. (Corday, France) (Sergeant York)

1919

Chicago White Sox win Game 7 of World Series. (Cincinnati, Ohio) (Eight Men Out)

1937

Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane. (Busman's Honeymoon)

1942

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders POWs of the Japanese are forced to build the Thai Burma Railway. (Thailand) (To End all Wars)

1958

At last was on the radio when bud and the girl are going to the lake. Etta James didn't sing that until 1960 (Pleasantville)

1986

A church roof falls on 34 worshipers during a hymn. (Texas) (Manhunter)

Will and his wife Molly reminisce about how they met. (Captiva, Florida) (Manhunter)

1998

Juan returns the book. (East Great Falls, Michigan) (American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)

2006

-Around 1:30 AM Katie Featherston gets up in her sleep and stands near her bed a couple of hours. She then goes downstairs and screams fot Micah. Micah hurries downstairs and gets killed by his girlfriend, Katie. Katie throws Micah's body at the camera which was filming them the last month. She then leaps at the camera before disapearing forever. (San Diego, CA USA) (Paranormal Activity)

2010

James Reid finds his son Britt sleeping with a woman. The Daily Sentinel headline: "City Under Siege. EXPLOSIONS, SHOOTINGS ROCK CITY NIGHT." The newspaper also covers a story on Britt's partying the previous night. (Los Angeles, California) (The Green Hornet)

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