About April 8
April 8, 2021 is the 98th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 299 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 8
- 1139 –Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
- 1271 –In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.
- 1832 –Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield – Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
- 1886 –William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
- 1906 –Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dies.
- 1911 –Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
- 1913 –The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
- 1916 –In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.
- 1929 –Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 1954 –A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
- 1954 –South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
- 1959 –The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
- 1985 –Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
- 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.
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