{"id":4213,"date":"2023-04-08T04:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T22:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2023-03-31T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:17:29","slug":"history-of-8-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-8-april\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 8 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 8 April<\/h2>\n

1911<\/strong> – The first squash tournament was played at the Harvard Club in New York City.<\/p>\n

1913<\/strong> – The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified, requiring direct election of senators.<\/p>\n

1935<\/strong> – The Works Progress Administration was approved by the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress.<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> – Italy invaded Albania.<\/p>\n

1942<\/strong> – The Soviets opened a rail link to the besieged city of Leningrad.<\/p>\n

1943<\/strong> – Wendell Wilkie\u2019s “One World” was published for the first time.<\/p>\n

1946<\/strong> – The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time.<\/p>\n

1947<\/strong> – The first illustrated insurance policy was issued by the Allstate Insurance Company.<\/p>\n

1952<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Truman\u00a0seized steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.<\/p>\n

1953<\/strong> – The bones of Sitting Bull were moved from\u00a0North Dakota\u00a0to\u00a0South Dakota.<\/p>\n

1962<\/strong> – Bay of Pigs invaders got thirty years imprisonment in Cuba.<\/p>\n

1974<\/strong> – Hank Aaron hits 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth’s record.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> – Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians became first black manager of a major league baseball team.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – India filed suit against Union Carbide for the Bhopal disaster.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – Phyllis Diller underwent a surgical procedure for permanent eyeliner to eliminate the need for eyelid makeup.<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong> – Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel,\u00a0CA.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigned over remarks he had made. While on ABC’s “Nightline” Campanis said that blacks “may not have some of the necessities” to hold managerial jobs in major-league baseball.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> – Former\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0aid Lyn Nofzinger was sentenced to prison for illegal lobbying for Wedtech Corp.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong> – In Nepal, King Birendra lifted the 30-year ban on political parties.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – In Britain, the last issue of “Punch Magazine” was published.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> – Smoking was banned in the Pentagon and all U.S. military bases.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. presented new evidence in an appeal for a new federal investigation of the assassination of her husband.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – 19\u00a0U.S.\u00a0troops were killed when a Marine V22 Osprey crashed during a training mission in Arizona.<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong> – Microsoft Corp. released Internet Explorer 6.0.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – 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’s Beverly Hills home.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play “Topdog\/Underdog.”<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0War in Darfur: The\u00a0Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement\u00a0is signed by the\u00a0Sudanese\u00a0government and two rebel groups.<\/p>\n

2006<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in\u00a0Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the\u00a0Bandidos Motorcycle Club.<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The construction of the\u00a0world’s first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines\u00a0is completed in\u00a0Bahrain.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Islamic State of Iraq\u00a0enters the\u00a0Syrian Civil War\u00a0and begins by declaring a merger with the\u00a0Al-Nusra Front\u00a0under the name\u00a0Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n