April 08

Friday 08, 2005:

Funeral of Pope John Paul II

Thursday 08, 2004:

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

Monday 08, 2002:

Ed McMahon files a US$20 million lawsuit against his insurance company and others regarding a toxic mold infecting McMahon's Beverly Hills, California home.

Saturday 08, 2000:

A U.S. Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashes during landing at Marana, Arizona killing 19.

Friday 08, 1994:

Body of Kurt Cobain discovered in his Washington home.

Wednesday 08, 1992:

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

Sunday 08, 1990:

Twin Peaks premieres.

Saturday 08, 1989:

South Africa In Johannesburg, the Progressive Federal Party, Independent party, National Democratic Movement and the force of "Ontevrede Afrikaners" or dissatisfied Afrikaners merged to form the Democratic Party.

Wednesday 08, 1987:

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

Tuesday 08, 1986:

Clint Eastwood is elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California receiving 72% of the vote (voter turnout was also doubled over the previous mayoral election).

Monday 08, 1985:

Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.

Tuesday 08, 1975:

Vietnam War: After spending a week in South Vietnam, U.S. Army Chief of Staff Frederick Weyand gives a report to the U.S. Congress that South Vietnam will fall without additional military aid.

Monday 08, 1974:

At the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron breaks baseball great's Babe Ruth's record by hitting his 715th home run.

Thursday 08, 1971:

a 6 pound meteorite struck the home of Robert and Wanda Donahue in Wethersfield, Connecticut

Saturday 08, 1967:

In Vienna, Austria, Sandie Shaw wins the twelfth Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Puppet on a String".

Wednesday 08, 1953:

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

Tuesday 08, 1952:

In a radio address to the nation from the White House, President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all steel mills in the United States in order to prevent a nationwide strike.

Sunday 08, 1945:

At the POW camp at Flossenbürg, pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged.

Wednesday 08, 1942:

Soviet Union forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.

Monday 08, 1935:

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

Monday 08, 1929:

Indian Independence Movement At Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw handouts, and bombs in a corridor not to cause injury and courted arrest.

Monday 08, 1918:

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

Saturday 08, 1916:

In Corona, California, auto racer Bob Burman crashed through a crowd barrier at the last Boulevard Race, killing himself, his mechanic and a track policeman, and badly injuring five spectators.

Tuesday 08, 1913:

The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified requiring direct election of Senators.

Friday 08, 1910:

The Los Angeles Motordome opened near Playa del Rey, California.

Friday 08, 1904:

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

Saturday 08, 1899:

Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed in an electric chair.

Monday 08, 1895:

The United States Supreme Court declared income tax to be unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.

Saturday 08, 1893:

First recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania when the Geneva College Covenanters defeated the New Brighton YMCA.

Friday 08, 1864:

Union General Nathaniel Banks' Red River Campaign is thwarted by Confederate General Richard Taylor's forces at Mansfield, Louisiana.

Sunday 08, 1832:

Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis to fight the Sauk Native Americans.

Saturday 08, 1820:

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

Wednesday 08, 1767:

Ayutthaya kingdom fell to Burmese invaders.

Sunday 08, 1742:

The first performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio The Messiah, in Dublin.

Saturday 08, 1730:

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

Tuesday 08, 217:

217 Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus

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