What are the important events that happened on April 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 8: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 8 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 26, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,744,070,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontaoctagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,491 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 8 Historical Events
- 1820 –The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
- 1866 –Italy and Prussia ally against Austrian Empire.
- 1904 –British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
- 1911 –Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
- 1918 –World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City’s financial district.
- 1942 –World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
- 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.
Who were born on April 8?
- 1871 –Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
- 1918 –Glendon Swarthout, American author (d. 1992)
- 1919 –Ian Smith, Former Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
- 1937 –Seymour Hersh, American journalist
- 1942 –Roger Chapman, British rock singer (Family, Streetwalkers)
- 1946 –Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1955 –Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist
- 1977 –Mark Spencer, American computer programmer
- 1981 –Brian Burres, American baseball player
- 1986 –Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
Who died on April 8?
- 1735 –Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. 1676)
- 1942 –Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)
- 1973 –Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist and sculptor (b. 1881)
- 1990 –Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
- 1997 –Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
- 2005 –Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2007 –Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
- 2008 –John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
- 2009 –Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1976)
- 2010 –Jack Agnew, Irish-born American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
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