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Events on the 8th of April in history

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08 Apr 0217 Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated. He is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
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08 Apr 0632 King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde), along with his infant son Chilperic.
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08 Apr 0876 The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
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08 Apr 1093 The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
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08 Apr 1139 Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
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08 Apr 1149 Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
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08 Apr 1232 Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty.
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08 Apr 1271 In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers.
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08 Apr 1341 Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
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08 Apr 1378 Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
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08 Apr 1455 Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
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08 Apr 1500 Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats Duke Ludovico Sforza
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08 Apr 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain
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08 Apr 1665 English colonial patents are granted for the establishment of the Monmouth Tract, for what would eventually become Monmouth County in northeastern New Jersey.
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08 Apr 1730 1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
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08 Apr 1730 Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
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08 Apr 1740 War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMS Princess.
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08 Apr 1759 British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
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08 Apr 1766 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain
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08 Apr 1783 Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
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08 Apr 1789 House of Representives 1st meeting
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08 Apr 1801 Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews
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08 Apr 1802 French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled
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08 Apr 1808 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.
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08 Apr 1820 The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
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08 Apr 1832 Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
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08 Apr 1832 Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
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08 Apr 1838 Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC)
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08 Apr 1848 1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
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08 Apr 1848 Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
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08 Apr 1861 US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy
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08 Apr 1862 John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
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08 Apr 1864 Battle of Mansfield, La Federals routed by General Richard Taylor
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08 Apr 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
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08 Apr 1865 General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
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08 Apr 1866 Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.
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08 Apr 1869 American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC)
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08 Apr 1879 Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French / British ministers
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08 Apr 1879 Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
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08 Apr 1886 William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
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08 Apr 1893 The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
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08 Apr 1895 In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
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08 Apr 1898 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
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08 Apr 1904 Great Britain and France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
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08 Apr 1904 Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
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08 Apr 1904 British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
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08 Apr 1904 The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
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08 Apr 1906 Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
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08 Apr 1908 Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British Premier
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08 Apr 1908 Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
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08 Apr 1911 Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
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08 Apr 1912 Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200
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08 Apr 1913 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
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08 Apr 1913 The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
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08 Apr 1914 US and Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone
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08 Apr 1916 Norway approves active and passive female suffrage
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08 Apr 1916 In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
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08 Apr 1918 World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
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08 Apr 1920 LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg
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08 Apr 1924 Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
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08 Apr 1929 Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
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08 Apr 1931 "White Horse Inn" opens in London
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08 Apr 1933 Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror
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08 Apr 1935 2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282
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08 Apr 1935 Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
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08 Apr 1935 The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
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08 Apr 1939 ACV soccer team forms in Axes
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08 Apr 1939 King Zog I of Albania, flees
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08 Apr 1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
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08 Apr 1941 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
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08 Apr 1942 World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
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08 Apr 1942 World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
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08 Apr 1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
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08 Apr 1943 Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
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08 Apr 1943 Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
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08 Apr 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.
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08 Apr 1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
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08 Apr 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.
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08 Apr 1946 League of Nations assembles for last time
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08 Apr 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.
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08 Apr 1947 Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed
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08 Apr 1948 Soen Nakagawa and Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in San Francisco
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08 Apr 1950 "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances
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08 Apr 1950 India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.
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08 Apr 1952 President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike
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08 Apr 1952 U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
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08 Apr 1953 Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers.
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08 Apr 1954 "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 270 performances
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08 Apr 1954 South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
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08 Apr 1954 A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
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08 Apr 1956 20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke Jr wins, shooting a 289
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08 Apr 1956 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Island, South Carolina
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08 Apr 1959 The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
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08 Apr 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.
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08 Apr 1960 Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
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08 Apr 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.
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08 Apr 1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
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08 Apr 1961 A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
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08 Apr 1962 Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
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08 Apr 1963 35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia, " A Bancroft and G Peck win
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08 Apr 1963 Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000
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08 Apr 1964 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
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08 Apr 1964 Gemini 1 (unmanned test flight) launched.
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08 Apr 1966 AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
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08 Apr 1966 Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary General of communist party
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08 Apr 1966 OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
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08 Apr 1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to April 10th due to death of M L King
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08 Apr 1968 Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms
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08 Apr 1968 New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
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08 Apr 1968 WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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08 Apr 1968 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.
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08 Apr 1969 1st Baseball game in Canada - Montreal Expos beats New York Mets 10-9
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08 Apr 1969 Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres and Pilots win their 1st games
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08 Apr 1970 "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances
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08 Apr 1970 Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
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08 Apr 1971 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
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08 Apr 1974 Discovery Island opens
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08 Apr 1974 At Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.
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08 Apr 1975 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II, " Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win
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08 Apr 1975 Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats New York 5-3)
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08 Apr 1975 Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
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08 Apr 1977 Israel Premier Rabin resigns
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08 Apr 1979 "Carmelina" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 17 performances
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08 Apr 1979 204th and final episode of "All in the Family"
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08 Apr 1979 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
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08 Apr 1981 Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
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08 Apr 1982 Penguins 2-Isles 4-Preliminary-Isles hold 2-0 lead
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08 Apr 1982 Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th US swimming title
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08 Apr 1984 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
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08 Apr 1984 4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins
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08 Apr 1985 "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 performances
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08 Apr 1985 Amdahl releases UTS / V, 1st mainframe Unix
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08 Apr 1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
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08 Apr 1986 Clint Eastwood elected Mayor of Carmel California, Make his day
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08 Apr 1987 Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
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08 Apr 1989 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2 / 3 inn
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08 Apr 1990 "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
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08 Apr 1990 "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV
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08 Apr 1990 54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278
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08 Apr 1990 King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
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08 Apr 1990 Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
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08 Apr 1990 Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
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08 Apr 1991 "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances
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08 Apr 1991 Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident
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08 Apr 1991 Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement
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08 Apr 1991 Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas
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08 Apr 1991 Oakland Athletics stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking
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08 Apr 1992 Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
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08 Apr 1993 STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
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08 Apr 1993 The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations.
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08 Apr 1994 Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
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08 Apr 1994 Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
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08 Apr 1994 Japans Premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
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08 Apr 1994 Smoking banned in Pentagon and all US military bases
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08 Apr 1995 BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted
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08 Apr 1995 Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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08 Apr 1996 Bruce Seldon TKOs Tony Tucker in 7 to win vacated WBA boxing title
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08 Apr 1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands
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08 Apr 1999 Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
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08 Apr 2004 War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
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08 Apr 2005 Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
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08 Apr 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 Club.
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08 Apr 2008 The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
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08 Apr 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
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