Event:
Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
More Notable Events on October 8: 1993 U.N. lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
1982 Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions
1958 Dr. Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker in Stockholm
1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
1860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens
