please enjoy your travel through time on the 8th day of April, with interesting events, births & deaths on this day in history

8th April History Timeline

1800s / the 19th century on the 8th of April

1820 : The Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.

1900s / the 20th century on the 8th of April

1904 : Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan was renamed Times Square. it was named after The New York Times.

1906 : Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease died aged 55, in Germany.

1911 : Superconductivity was discovered by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.

1947 : Robert Kiyosaki the American businessman was born in Hilo, Territory of Hawaii, USA.

1963 : Julian Lennon the English singer-songwriter was born in Liverpool, England.

1964 : The Gemini 1 test flight was conducted.

1966 : Charlotte Dawson the New Zealand-Australian television host was born in Auckland, new Zealand (died in 2014 aged 47).

1973 : Pablo Picasso the Spanish artist died aged 91 (born in 1881).

1974 : Hank Aaron set a new home run record : Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers.  The largest crowd of 53,775 people in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium , were there to cheer Aaron when he hit a 4th inning pitch off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Al Downing. However, as Aaron was an African American who had received death threats and racist hate mail during his pursuit of baseball’s most distinguished records, the achievement was bittersweet. 

1992 : Arthur Ashe the retired tennis great announced that he had AIDS, which was acquired from blood transfusions he had during one of his two heart surgeries.

2000s / the 21st century on the 8th of April

2008 : The world’s first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines was completed in Bahrain.

2010 : Malcolm McLaren the English singer-songwriter died from peritoneal mesothelioma at the age of 64 (born in 1946).

2013 : Margaret Thatcher the English Prime Minister died from a stroke at the age of 87 (born in 1925).

Today in History for April 8th by Associated Press

Video features : Funeral of Pope John Paul II, Pablo Picasso died at 91, teen aids patient Ryan White died aged 18, Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run…

We hope you enjoyed your travel through time on the 8th day of April

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This page was last updated on the 8th April 2021

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