October 8: Khotyn peace treaty, Dow Jones index and Carpathian Ukraine

On October 8, 1621, the Khotyn peace treaty was concluded between the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. This agreement put an end to the Polish-Turkish war of 1620-1621 and established the border between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire on the Dniester.

1652 - between the English fleet and the fleet of the United Provinces the battle of Kentish Nok took place.

1806 - The invasion of Napoleon's troops in Saxony began the war of the fourth coalition.

1818 - The British used boxing gloves for the first time in battle.

1896 - the Dow Jones index was first published, becoming the main indicator of the situation on American exchanges.

1906 - in London, the hairdresser Karl Ludwig Nessler demonstrated the device and technology for performing a new female hairstyle - a permanent.

1913 - after more than two years of investigation, the trial of the Jewish Mendel Beilis, accused of "ritual murder" of Andrei Yushchinsky, began in Kiev.

1926 - the world's first football report on the radio (about the match Slavia (Prague) -MTK (Budapest)) took place.

1938 - The first autonomous Transcarpathian government was created in Uzhgorod, which, from December 30, 1938, became known as the Carpathian Ukraine.

1945 - Massachusetts engineer Percy Spencer patented a microwave oven.

1967 - In the course of an army operation to destroy left-wing military groups by Bolivian special squadrons, Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara was wounded and captured.

1977 - the start of the first Mini Transat - sailing race across the Atlantic Ocean.