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Birthday April 08, 1842 Elizabeth Bacon Custer is born in Michigan |
Birthday April 08, 1889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra) |
Birthday April 08, 1955 Barbara Kingsolver is born |
History April 08, 0563 Buddhists celebrate birth of Gautama Buddha |
History April 08, 1513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida. |
History April 08, 1778 John Adams arrives in Paris to replace Silas Deane |
History April 08, 1864 Confederates rout Union at Battle of Mansfield |
History April 08, 1904 Britain and France sign Entente Cordiale |
History April 08, 1913 17th Amendment - requiring direct election of senators - ratified |
History April 08, 1916 California road race kills five |
History April 08, 1935 FDR signs Emergency Relief Appropriation Act |
History April 08, 1935 WPA established by Congress |
History April 08, 1944 Russians attack Germans in drive to expel them from Crimea |
History April 08, 1945 Defiant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged |
History April 08, 1950 McCarthy publicly attacks Owen Lattimore |
History April 08, 1953 Kenyatta jailed for Mau Mau uprising |
History April 08, 1972 North Vietnamese forces open a third front |
History April 08, 1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run - beats Babe Ruth's record. |
History April 08, 1974 Aaron hits his 715th home run |
History April 08, 1975 Weyand reports to Congress |
History April 08, 1979 Waltrip beats Petty in last-lap thriller |
History April 08, 1981 Omar Bradley dies |
History April 08, 1990 Twin Peaks premieres on ABC |
History April 08, 1994 Kurt Cobain is found dead |
History April 08, 2005 Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agrees to plead guilty |
History April 08, 2013 Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, dies |