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
- 1740 –War of Jenkin’s Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
- 1767 –Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.
- 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.
- 1904 –Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
- 1916 –In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.
- 1942 –World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1974 –at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old record.
- 1975 –Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.
- 2005 –Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
- 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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