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

  • 1093 –
    The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
  • 1740 –
    War of Jenkin’s Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
  • 1767 –
    Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.
  • 1820 –
    The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
  • 1866 –
    Italy and Prussia ally against Austrian Empire.
  • 1908 –
    Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
  • 1911 –
    Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
  • 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.
  • 1950 –
    India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1970 –
    Bahr el-Baqar incident: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. 46 children are killed.
  • 1975 –
    President Richard Nixon signs into law federal legislation authorizing the establishment of Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota.
  • 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.
  • 2004 –
    Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
  • 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.

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