About April 8
April 8, 2024 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.
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Aries is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 8
- 1271 –In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.
- 1740 –War of Jenkin’s Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
- 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.
- 1820 –The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
- 1893 –The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
- 1895 –In Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
- 1904 –British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
- 1908 –Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
- 1935 –The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1946 –The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.
- 1959 –The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
- 1961 –A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
- 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.
- 1975 –Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.
- 1992 –Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
- 1993 –The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations.
- 1999 –Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
- 2005 –Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
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