What are the important events that happened on April 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 8: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 8 is the 99th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 26, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,704 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontaenneagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 296 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,126 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 8 Historical Events
- 1820 –The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield – Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
- 1935 –The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
- 1942 –World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
- 1952 –U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
- 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.
- 1975 –Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.
- 1985 –Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
- 1992 –Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
- 2008 –The construction of the world’s first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
Who were born on April 8?
- 1336 –Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405)
- 1818 –King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
- 1920 –Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994)
- 1933 –Fred Ebb, American composer (d. 2004)
- 1935 –Oscar Zeta Acosta, American attorney, politician, and Chicano Movement activist (d. 1974?)
- 1947 –Pascal Lamy, Director-General of WTO
- 1958 –Detlef Bruckhoff, German footballer
- 1965 –Michael Jones, New Zealand rugby player and coach
- 1974 –Chino XL, American rapper
- 1980 –Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
Who died on April 8?
- 1143 –John II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1087)
- 1920 –Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)
- 1931 –Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
- 1990 –Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
- 1993 –Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
- 1997 –Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
- 2002 –María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
- 2005 –Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)
- 2008 –John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
- 2010 –Jack Agnew, Irish-born American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
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