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The following events took place on April 8. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 58 events. Showing 31 - 58.

• 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.
• 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 by common carriers and public utilities.
• 1945

  World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
• 1946

  Électricité de France, the world’s largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
• 1950

  India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.
• 1952

  U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
• 1953

  Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
• 1954

  A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
• 1954

  South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
• 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.
• 1959

  The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
• 1960

  The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
• 1961

  A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
• 1964

  Gemini 1 (unmanned test flight) launched.
• 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 primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
• 1974

  At Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old record.
• 1975

  Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.
• 1987

  Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
• 1992

  Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
• 1993

  The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations.
• 1999

  Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
• 2004

  War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
• 2005

  Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
• 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 Club.
• 2008

  The construction of the world’s first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
• 2013

  The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham

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