Today in History, October 8

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AAP General News (Australia)
10-02-2009
Today in History, October 8

By AAP and agencies
Today is Thursday, October 8, the 281st day of 2009. There are 84 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1469 - Death of Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi, one of the most important early
renaissance painters and a teacher of Botticelli.

1806 - British forces laying siege to the French port Boulogne fire Congreve rockets,
the first British use of rocket-propelled missiles.

1843 - Anglo-Chinese commercial treaties confirm Treaty of Nanking.

1858 - The "Arrow Incident", in ...

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