Notable Historical Events on April 8th
April 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
217 |
Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. |
1093 |
The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin. |
1139 |
Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated. |
1149 |
Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum. |
1195 |
Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor |
1271 |
In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers (a fortress near Homs). |
1341 |
Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome |
1378 |
Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI |
1455 |
Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III |
1500 |
Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza |
1513 |
Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain |
1730 |
1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC" |
1759 |
British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India |
1766 |
1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain |
1767 |
Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders. |
1781 |
Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379 |
1783 |
Catharina II of Russia annexes the Crimea. [What goes around comes around.] |
1789 |
First meeting of the US House of Representatives |
1796 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, proves the quadratic reciprocity law (the ability to determine the solvability of any quadratic equation in modular arithmetic) |
1801 |
Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews |
1802 |
French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled |
1808 |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore was promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII. |
1820 |
The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos. |
1832 |
Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro |
1838 |
Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol, England, to NYC) |
1848 |
1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians |
1848 |
Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro |
1861 |
US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, seized by confederacy (US Civil War) |
1862 |
John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser |
1864 |
Battle of Mansfield, La; Federals routed by Gen Richard Taylor |
1866 |
Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary. |
1869 |
American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC) |
1876 |
Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda" premieres in Milan |
1879 |
Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers |
1879 |
Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time |
1886 |
William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons. |
1886 |
First Home Rule Bill for Ireland presented by Gladstone, the Liberal Prime Minister of Britain, to the House of Commons |
1893 |
The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink |
1898 |
Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese |
1902 |
Russia and China sign the Convention of Evacuation under which Russia agrees to evacuate Manchuria within 18 months |
1902 |
Growing unrest in Belgian society as people demand better education, better work and living conditions, the right to strike and universal male suffrage, culminate in a demonstration organised by Socialists. In the rioting that ensues, many Belgians are killed |
1904 |
Great Britain and France establish their Entente Cordiale, a technical treaty settling long-standing disagreements over Morocco, Egypt, Africa, and the Pacific |
1904 |
British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law. |
1908 |
Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier |
1912 |
Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200 |
1913 |
17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified |
1913 |
Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing) |
1914 |
US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone |
1916 |
Norway approves active & passive female suffrage |
1916 |
In Corona, California, racecar driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three and badly injuring five spectators. |
1920 |
LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg |
1924 |
South African State pass the Industrial Conciliation Act No 11: the act provided for job reservation, excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions,and prohibited registration of black trade unions |
1929 |
Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. |
1931 |
"White Horse Inn" opens in London |
1931 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's ballet "The Arrow" premieres |
1933 |
Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror |
1935 |
2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282 |
1935 |
Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Wash DC |
1935 |
Works Progress Administration approved by Congress |
1939 |
ACV soccer team forms in Axes |
1939 |
King Zog I of Albania flees |
1940 |
German battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious |
1941 |
Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title |
1942 |
A Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire" premieres in NYC |
1943 |
Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma |
1943 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
1943 |
U.S. President Franklin 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 to common carriers and public utilities. |
1945 |
Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands |
1946 |
League of Nations assembles for last time |
1947 |
Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed |
1948 |
Soen Nakagawa & Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF |
1950 |
"Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances |
1952 |
US President Harry Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike |
1953 |
Dag Hammarskjoeld chosen as secretary-general of UN |
1953 |
Jomo Kenyatta convicted of involvement with Mau Mau and sentenced to 7 years in Kenya |
1954 |
"By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 270 perfs |
1956 |
20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke Jr wins, shooting a 289 |
1956 |
6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC |
1956 |
M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon |
1960 |
Neth & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties |
1960 |
US Senate passes Civil Rights Bill with measures against discriminatory voting pracrices |
1961 |
"Show Girl" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 100 perfs |
1961 |
British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236 |
1962 |
Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France |
1963 |
35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia", Anne Bancroft & Gregory Peck win |
1963 |
Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000 |
1964 |
Unmanned Gemini 1 launched |
1966 |
AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner |
1966 |
Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party |
1966 |
OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched |
1968 |
40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King |
1968 |
Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King's assassination |
1968 |
Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms |
1968 |
New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect |
1968 |
WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Gangsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke commit the Air France robbery, stealing $420,000 |
1969 |
1st Baseball game in Canada - Mont Expos beats NY Mets 10-9 |
1969 |
Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres & Pilots win their 1st games |
1970 |
"Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1970 |
Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court |
1971 |
1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York) |
1972 |
Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings v NZ |
1973 |
Thirty-two terrorist bombings in Cyprus take place. |
1974 |
Discovery Island opens |
1974 |
Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaking Babe Ruth's record in Atlanta |
1975 |
47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II", Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win |
1975 |
Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats NY 5-3) |
1977 |
Israeli premier Rabin resigns |
1979 |
"Carmelina" opens at St James Theater NYC for 17 performances |
1979 |
204th & final episode of "All in the Family" |
1979 |
8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post |
1979 |
People's Republic of China joins IOC |
1980 |
Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings & set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period |
1981 |
Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs |
1982 |
Penguins 2-Isles 4-Preliminary-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
1982 |
Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th US swimming title |
1984 |
13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster |
1984 |
4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins |
1985 |
"Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 perfs |
1985 |
Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix |
1985 |
India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster |
1986 |
Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day |
1989 |
1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn |
1990 |
"Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances |
1990 |
"Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV |
1990 |
54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278 |
1990 |
King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties |
1990 |
Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
1990 |
Norwegian ferry Scandinavian Star catches fire; 159 people die |
1990 |
New Democracy wins the national election in Greece. |
1991 |
"I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances |
1991 |
Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident |
1991 |
Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement |
1991 |
Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas |
1991 |
Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena in USA to ban smoking |
1992 |
"5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 445 perfs |
1992 |
After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue |
1993 |
Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks) |
1993 |
STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
1994 |
Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0 |
1994 |
Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic |
1994 |
Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns |
1994 |
Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases |
1995 |
BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted |
1995 |
Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1996 |
Bruce Seldon TKOs Tony Tucker in 7 to win vacated WBA boxing title |
1997 |
Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0 |
1997 |
STS 83 (Columbia 22) lands |
1999 |
Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress. |
2000 |
Nineteen US Marines are killed when a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near Marana, Arizona. |
2001 |
65th Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods wins, shooting a 272 |
2004 |
Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups. |
2004 |
U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission. |
2006 |
Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang. |
2007 |
71st Golf Masters Championship: Zach Johnson wins, shooting a 289 |
2008 |
The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines completes, in Bahrain. |
2012 |
Gunter Grass labelled persona non gratta by Israeli internal affairs minister Eli Yishai |
2012 |
Pope Benedict XVI calls for an end to Syrian blood shed in papal Easter message |
2012 |
76th Golf Masters Championship: Bubba Watson wins, shooting a 278 |
2013 |
15 people are killed and 53 are wounded by a car bombing in Damascus |
2013 |
163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan |
2013 |
Filip Vujanović's election as President of Montenegro is confirmed by the electoral commission |
2014 |
Mike Babcock wins his 414th career game as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, becoming the winningest coach in Red Wings history (passing Jack Adams) |
2016 |
UK's Cameron Says He Did Profit From Dad's Offshore Holdings |
2017 |
Stolen truck kills 4 in Stockholm; Sweden calls it terror |
2017 |
President Trump launches military strike in Syria |
2017 |
US releases flight path of plane used in Syria chemical attack |
2017 |
Gov. Jerry Brown Lifts Drought Emergency For Most Of California |
2018 |
Man, 67, killed in raging fire at Trump Tower in New York |
2018 |
Minnesota Duluth beats Notre Dame 2-1 for NCAA hockey title |
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