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08 April, 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.
08 April, 2004
Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
08 April, 2004
U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission .
08 April, 2000
19 Marines are killed when an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near Marana, Arizona.
08 April, 1999
Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
08 April, 1992
Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
08 April, 1990
New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
08 April, 1989
South Africa: the Democratic Party is formed from the merger of four parties.
08 April, 1989
The two Greek Communist parties, along with smaller left-wing parties, merge to form the Coalition of the Left and Progress in Greece.
08 April, 1987
Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially-charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
08 April, 1985
Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
08 April, 1975
Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseballs first African American manager.
08 April, 1973
32 terrorist bombings in Cyprus
08 April, 1960
The U.S. Senate approves a civil rights bill despite Southern senators marathon filibuster effort.
08 April, 1957
The Suez Canal in Egypt is reopened.
08 April, 1953
Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenyas British rulers.
08 April, 1952
U.S. President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
08 April, 1950
India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
08 April, 1946
The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.
08 April, 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 to common carriers and public utilities.
08 April, 1942
World War II: Siege of Leningrad - Soviet Union forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
08 April, 1942
World War II: the Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
08 April, 1940
World War II: Great Britain and France announce that they have mined Norwegian territorial waters to prevent their use by German supply ships.
08 April, 1935
The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
08 April, 1929
Indian Independence Movement: At Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
08 April, 1918
World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York, New Yorks financial district.
08 April, 1916
In Corona, California, car racer Bob Burman crashes, killing three and badly injuring five spectators.
08 April, 1913
The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
08 April, 1904
The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
08 April, 1904
British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.
08 April, 1904
Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
08 April, 1899
Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed in an electric chair.
08 April, 1895
The United States Supreme Court declares income tax to be unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co.
08 April, 1893
The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
08 April, 1886
William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
08 April, 1867
The first Worlds Fair is inaugurated in Paris.
08 April, 1866
Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary.
08 April, 1864
American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield - Union forces are thwarted by a Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
08 April, 1848
Battle of Goito, part of the Italian Wars of Independence
08 April, 1832
Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
08 April, 1820
The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
08 April, 1767
Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.
08 April, 1730
Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
08 April, 1513
Explorer Juan Ponce de León declares Florida a territory of Spain .
08 April, 1271
In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.
08 April, 1149
Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
08 April, 1139
Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
08 April, 1093
The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
08 April, 217
Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.

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