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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 26, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,712,534,400 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 ‘enneacontaenneagon’ day.
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 296 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 4,126 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 8 Historical Events
- 1866 –Italy and Prussia ally against Austrian Empire.
- 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.
- 1918 –World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City’s financial district.
- 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.
- 1950 –India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on April 8?
- 1692 –Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (d. 1770)
- 1926 –Henry N. Cobb, American architect
- 1929 –Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000)
- 1947 –Larry Norman, American singer/songwriter (d. 2008)
- 1963 –Terry Porter, American basketball player and coach
- 1964 –Biz Markie, American rapper/disc jockey
- 1968 –Patricia Girard-Léno, French athlete
- 1980 –Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
- 1981 –Lito Sheppard, American football cornerback
- 1988 –Kim Myung-Sung, South Korean baseball player
Who died on April 8?
- 217 –Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 188)
- 1697 –Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)
- 1735 –Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. 1676)
- 1936 –Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
- 1978 –Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (b. 1894)
- 1996 –Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2004 –Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (b. 1941)
- 2006 –Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
- 2008 –Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
- 2008 –Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
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