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What Happened on April 8th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee.
2014	Windows XP reaches it's standard End Of Life and is no longer supported
2013	The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham.
2010	U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty.
2008	The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
2006	Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
2005	A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
2004	War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government, the Justice and Equality Movement, and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army.
1993	The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.
1993	The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56.
1992	Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
1987	Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racist remarks he had made while on Nightline.
1975	Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
1970	Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
1968	BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
1960	The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
1959	A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
1959	The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
1954	A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
1954	South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
1953	Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
1952	U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
1950	India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.
1946	Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
1945	World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
1943	U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
1943	Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.
1942	World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
1940	The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary, marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of Mongolia.
1935	The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
1929	Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1924	Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
1918	World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
1913	The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
1911	Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
1908	Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
1906	Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
1904	The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
1895	In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
1886	William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1866	Austro-Prussian War: Italy and Prussia sign a secret alliance against the Austrian Empire.
1832	Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
1820	The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
1812	Czar Alexander I, the Russian Emperor and the Grand Duke of Finland, officially announces the transfer of the status of the Finnish capital from Turku to Helsinki.[9]
1730	Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in continental North America, is dedicated.
1605	The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1271	In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers.
1250	Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
1232	Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty.
1139	Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy.
876	The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
217	Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.

Famous People Born on April 8

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Year	Name
1975	Funda Arar, Turkish singer
1946	Tim Thomerson, American actor and producer
1923	Edward Mulhare, Irish-American actor (d. 1997)
1914	María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1975	Timo Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
1923	George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1962	Izzy Stradlin, American guitarist and songwriter
1985	Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian runner
1904	Hirsch Jacobs, American horse trainer (d. 1970)
1605	Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)

Famous People Deaths On April 8

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Date	Name
1920	Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
1612	Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (b. 1575)
1877	Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (b. 1806)
1959	Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)
2020	Rick May, American-Canadian voice actor (b. 1940)
1950	Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
1990	Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)
217	Caracalla, Roman emperor (b. 188)
1942	Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
1735	Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian prince (b. 1676)