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
- 1093 –The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
- 1730 –Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
- 1740 –War of Jenkin’s Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
- 1767 –Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1904 –Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
- 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.
- 1918 –World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City’s financial district.
- 1950 –India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
- 1953 –Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
- 1959 –A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 –Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
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