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 98th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 26, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,744,070,400 seconds 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 ‘enneacontaoctagon’ 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 315 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 4,491 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 8 Historical Events
- 1093 –The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
- 1730 –Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
- 1832 –Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
- 1895 –In Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
- 1904 –Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
- 1942 –World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
- 1953 –Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 –The construction of the world’s first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
Who were born on April 8?
- 1902 –Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer (d. 1924)
- 1905 –Helen Joseph, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1992)
- 1927 –Tilly Armstrong (alias Tania Langley and Kate Alexander), British writer (d. 2010)
- 1935 –Oscar Zeta Acosta, American attorney, politician, and Chicano Movement activist (d. 1974?)
- 1947 –Tom DeLay, American politician and convict
- 1951 –Gerd Andres, German politician
- 1955 –Ron Johnson, American politician, junior senator of Wisconsin.
- 1963 –Julian Lennon, English musician and singer
- 1973 –Alex S. Gonzalez, American baseball player
- 1974 –Holger Hott Johansen, Norwegian orienteerist
Who died on April 8?
- 217 –Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 188)
- 1586 –Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)
- 1704 –Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
- 1848 –Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
- 1981 –Omar Bradley, U.S. general (b. 1893)
- 1993 –Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
- 1997 –Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
- 2000 –Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2009 –Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1976)
- 2010 –Malcolm McLaren, British music manager (b. 1946)
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