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History Events on April 08

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History Events on April 08

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Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.

#Auguste_Deter

In 1906

World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.

#World_War_II

In 1942

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.

#Grace_Hopper

In 1959

H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

#H._H._Asquith

In 1908

World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.

#Empire_of_Japan

In 1942

Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.

#Los_Angeles_Dodgers

In 1987

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.

#Franklin_D._Roosevelt

In 1943

The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.

#Venus_de_Milo

In 1820

The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.

#Winchester_Cathedral

In 1093

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.

#Islamic_State_of_Iraq

In 2013

In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers.

#Syria

In 1271

The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.

#Works_Progress_Administration

In 1935

Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.

#Prussia

In 1866

India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.

#India

In 1950

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.

#Netherlands

In 1960

Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.

#Bahr_El-Baqar_primary_school_bombing

In 1970

Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.

#Dutch_people

In 1911

Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.

#Otto_and_Elise_Hampel

In 1943

South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.

#South_African_Airways_Flight_201

In 1954

William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

#William_Ewart_Gladstone

In 1886

World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.

#World_War_I

In 1918

At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.

#Atlanta-Fulton_County_Stadium

In 1974

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.

#Électricité_de_France

In 1946

Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.

#Indian_independence_movement

In 1929

Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.

#Roger_II_of_Sicily

In 1139

The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.

#Organization_of_American_States

In 1959

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII.

#Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Baltimore

In 1808

In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.

#Corona,_California

In 1916

American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.

#American_Civil_War

In 1864

King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde), along with his infant son Chilperic.

#Charibert_II

In 632

Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

#Frank_Robinson

In 1975

The Gemini 1 test flight is conducted.

#Gemini_1

In 1964

The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.

#Bahrain_World_Trade_Center

In 2008

Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.

#Congregation_Shearith_Israel

In 1730

War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.

#War_in_Darfur

In 2004

Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.

#Black_Hawk_War

In 1832

War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMS Princess.

#War_of_Jenkins'_Ear

In 1740

Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.

#Tennis

In 1992

The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.

#French_Third_Republic

In 1904

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.

In 2006

Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.

In 1999

The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.

In 1993

BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. 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.

In 1968

A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.

In 1961

A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.

In 1954

Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.

In 1953

U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.

In 1952

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.

In 1945

Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.

In 1924

The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.

In 1913

Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.

In 1908

Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.

In 1904

In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.

In 1895

English colonial patents are granted for the establishment of the Monmouth Tract, for what would eventually become Monmouth County in northeastern New Jersey.

In 1665

Mongol-Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty.

In 1232

Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.

In 1149

The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.

In 876

Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated. He is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.

In 217

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