{"id":19616,"date":"2021-04-08T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=19616"},"modified":"2021-04-07T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:16:34","slug":"history-of-8-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-8-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 8 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 8 April<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; In Nepal, King Birendra lifted the 30-year ban on political parties.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211; In Britain, the last issue of &#8220;Punch Magazine&#8221; was published.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; Smoking was banned in the Pentagon and all U.S. military bases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. presented new evidence in an appeal for a new federal investigation of the assassination of her husband.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; 19&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;troops were killed when a Marine V22 Osprey crashed during a training mission in Arizona.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001<\/strong> &#8211; Microsoft Corp. released Internet Explorer 6.0.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Ed McMahon filed a $20 million lawsuit against his insurance company, two insurance adjusters, and several environmental cleanup contractors. The suit alleged breach of contract, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress concerning a toxic mold that had spread through McMahon&#8217;s Beverly Hills home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play &#8220;Topdog\/Underdog.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;War in Darfur: The&nbsp;Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement&nbsp;is signed by the&nbsp;Sudanese&nbsp;government and two rebel groups.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2006<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in&nbsp;Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the&nbsp;Bandidos Motorcycle Club.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2008<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The construction of the&nbsp;world&#8217;s first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines&nbsp;is completed in&nbsp;Bahrain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The&nbsp;Islamic State of Iraq&nbsp;enters the&nbsp;Syrian Civil War&nbsp;and begins by declaring a merger with the&nbsp;Al-Nusra Front&nbsp;under the name&nbsp;Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick Bousquet, French swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Ofer Shechter, Israeli model, actor, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Gennady Golovkin, Kazakhstani boxer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Brett White, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova, Russian runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Michelle Donelan, British politician<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Ezra Koenig, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Pablo Portillo, Mexican singer and actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Taran Noah Smith, American actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;F\u00e9lix Hern\u00e1ndez, Venezuelan-American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Jeremy Hellickson, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Sam Rapira, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Kim Myung-sung, South Korean baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (d. 2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Zac Santo, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Cedi Osman, Turkish professional basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Saygrace, Australian singer and songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Arno Verschueren, Belgian professional football player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 8 April 1990 &#8211; 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