Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 8
This is a list of selected April 8 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is not generally posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled April 8, 2012 featured article or the April 8, 2012 featured picture.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Images
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Bust of Caracalla
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Caracalla bust cropped.jpg
Bust of Caracalla (requires undeletion)
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Winchester Cathedral
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Ayutthaya Buddha
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Times Square
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Petrarch
Ineligible
| Blurb | Why ineligible |
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| 1093 – Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire, one of the largest cathedrals in England, was dedicated by Bishop Walkelin. | citations missing |
| 1767 – The Ayutthaya Kingdom fell to Burmese invaders. | Need to verify date |
| 1904 – France and the United Kingdom signed the entente cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict. | Needs more footnotes |
| 1986 – Actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. | Need to verify date |
Eligible
- 1341 – Italian scholar and poet Petrarch took the title poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome.
- 1861 - Elisha Otis, the inventor of the safety elevator dies.
- 1886 – British Prime Minister William Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
- 1904 – British occultist and writer Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, a Holy Book in Thelema.
- 1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity.
April 8: Easter (Western Christianity, 2012); Hanamatsuri in Japan
- 217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla (bust pictured) was assassinated at a roadside near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.
- 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, was renamed Times Square after The New York Times building.
- 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 suffered an engine fire shortly after take off from London Heathrow Airport, leading to deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Barbara Jane Harrison, who was later awarded a posthumous George Cross for her heroism during the accident.
- 1992 – American tennis player Arthur Ashe announced that he had contracted HIV from blood transfusions; he would spend the remainder of his life as an AIDS activist.
- 2008 – On board Soyuz TMA-12, Yi So-Yeon became the first Korean, and second Asian woman to go into space.
