About April 8
April 8, 2025 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.
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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 315 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 8
- 1149 –Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
- 1740 –War of Jenkin’s Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
- 1767 –Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield – Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
- 1866 –Italy and Prussia ally against Austrian Empire.
- 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.
- 1906 –Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dies.
- 1916 –In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.
- 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.
- 1946 –The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.
- 1952 –U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
- 1953 –Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
- 1954 –A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
- 1975 –Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.
- 1975 –President Richard Nixon signs into law federal legislation authorizing the establishment of Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota.
- 1987 –Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
- 2005 –Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
- 2008 –The construction of the world’s first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
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