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On this day - April 8
217 — Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his ...
876 — The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the ...
1139 — Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for ...
1232 — Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the ...
1250 — Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of ...
1271 — In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers.
1605 — The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1730 — Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in continental North ...
1812 — Czar Alexander I, the Russian Emperor and the Grand Duke of ...
1820 — The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
1832 — Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops ...
1866 — Austro-Prussian War: Italy and Prussia sign a secret alliance ...
1886 — William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule ...
1895 — In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme ...
1904 — The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great ...
1940 — The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's ...
1954 — South African Airways Flight 201: A de Havilland DH.106 Comet ...
1954 — A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a ...
1959 — The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to ...
1959 — A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people ...
1960 — The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to ...
1968 — BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a ...
1970 — Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike ...
1974 — Hank Aaron passes Babe Ruth as the all-time leader in career ...
1990 — The conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis ...
1993 — The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56.
2002 — The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-110, ...
2005 — A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific ...
2010 — U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry ...
2014 — Windows XP reaches its standard End Of Life and is no longer ...
2020 — Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe ...
2024 — Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024: A total solar eclipse takes ...