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Historical Events for 8th October 2021

1600 - San Marino adopts constitution
1888 - British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jack Burns wins his lone Open title by 1 stroke from Ben Sayers and David Anderson Jr
1909 - Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1972 - Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended
1984 - 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1995 - Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series
1998 - José Saramago is the first person from Portugal to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
1999 - New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
2016 - New Zealand routs South Africa, 57-14 in Durban to win their 4th Rugby Championship; undefeated All Blacks score 9 tries to 1, 2 each to Israel Dagg, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett
2019 - FBI confirm Samuel Little is America's most prolific serial killer, after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders

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