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
- 217 –Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
- 1139 –Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
- 1271 –In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.
- 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.
- 1886 –William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
- 1904 –Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
- 1908 –Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
- 1918 –World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City’s financial district.
- 1935 –The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
- 1942 –World War II: Siege of Leningrad – Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
- 1942 –World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
- 1946 –The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.
- 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.
- 1968 –BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
- 1970 –Bahr el-Baqar incident: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. 46 children are killed.
- 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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