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- 1907
- The Queen's Theatre opens in London, England.
- 1974
- Quintana Roo becomes Mexico's 30th state.
- 1977
- The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania reopens after a ship collision caused parts of the bridge to collapse two years earlier.
- 1992
- Seaforth Park is renamed Seaforth Peace Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1998
- Gardermoen Line, connecting Eidsvoll and Oslo's newly-built airport with Oslo Central in Norway, opens.
- 2000
- Koronadal in the Philippines gains cityhood.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on October 8, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on October 8 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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