Oct 8, 2004
Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African female to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Reference
https://www.greenbeltmovement.org/wangari-maathai
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2004/maathai/facts/
Today is
National Chess Day
in the U.S.
It takes place every second Saturday in October and falls on Oct 8 this year.
Oct 8, 1936
Munshi Premchand, one of the greatest Indian writers of all time in Hindi&Urdu, novelist, and short story writer, died at age 56.