EVENTS:
- 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
- 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
- 1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dies.
- 1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
- 1929 – Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2014 – Windows XP reaches its standard End Of Life and is no longer supported.
- 2020 – Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party‘s nominee.
- 2024 – Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024: A total solar eclipse takes place at the Moon’s ascending node, visible across North America.
BIRTHS:
- 1904 – John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
- 1911 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 1943 – Miller Farr, American football player
- 1949 – Joe Royle, English footballer and manager
- 1954 – G.V. Loganathan, Indian-American engineer and academic (d. 2007)
- 1963 – Alec Stewart, English cricketer
- 1983 – Allu Arjun, Indian actor and singer
- 1986 – Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer
- 1999 – CeeDee Lamb, American football player
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