Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 8

This is a list of selected April 8 anniversaries that appear in 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 will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Bust of Caracalla
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  Winchester Cathedral
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  Times Square
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  Petrarch
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  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
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  Yi So-yeon
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  Venus de Milo
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  Capture of Princesa
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  Bust of Caracalla

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Hanamatsuri in Japan	refimprove
1093 – Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire, one of the largest cathedrals in England, was dedicated by Bishop Walkelin.	lots of CN tags (8), could use more
1341 – Italian scholar and poet Petrarch took the title poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome.	refimprove section
1820 – A Greek peasant discovered a statue of a woman with its arms missing—the Venus de Milo—on the Aegean island of Milos.	competing theories of discovery
1857 – Gallaudet University, the world's only university for hearing-impaired students, was established in Washington, D.C.	date not cited, unreferenced section
1886 – Prime minister William Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.	lots of CN tags in one section
1904 – British occultist and writer Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, one of the Holy Books of Thelema.	date not cited, refimprove section
1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity.	refimprove section
1992 – American tennis player Arthur Ashe announced that he had contracted HIV from blood transfusions; he spent the remainder of his life as an AIDS activist.	refimprove section
2008 – The wind turbines at the Bahrain World Trade Center, the first building to incorporate turbines into its design, became operational.	short, needs update
2008 – On board Soyuz TMA-12, Yi So-yeon became the first Korean to go into space.	CN tags (5)
2013 – Two Sunni Muslim extremist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Al-Nusra Front, merged to form the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.	8 April date isn't sourced (or even mentioned) in target article
Philip IV of Spain |b|1605	multiple issues
Dionysios Solomos |b|1798|	refimprove
Dead |d|1991	unreferenced section (discography)
* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Egyptian Ayyubid forces defeated the Crusader army at the Battle of Fariskur in Egypt, capturing King Louis IX of France as a hostage.	citation issues
* 1740 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Royal Navy captured the Spanish ship of the line Princesa, which was later taken into British service.	Date in source is 9th

Eligible

• 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla (pictured) was assassinated near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.
• 876 – Abbasid forces decisively defeated those of Saffarid emir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing the latter to halt his advance into Iraq.
• 1630 – Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany, New York, to found the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, which became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Late-arriving reinforcements helped Confederate forces rout the Union Army at the Battle of Mansfield.
• 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan, was renamed Times Square after the New York Times building.
• 1959 – A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the creation of a common business-oriented programming language that became COBOL.
• 1942 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces flew its first mission from India over the Hump (the eastern end of the Himalayas) to deliver materiel to China.
• 1943 – Otto and Elise Hampel were executed in Berlin for performing acts of resistance against Nazism.
• 1961 – A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf killed 238 people.
• 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 experienced an engine fire shortly after take-off from London Heathrow, leading to the deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Jane Harrison, who was posthumously awarded a George Cross for heroism.
• Born/died: | John II Komnenos |d|1143| Thomas of Tolentino |d|1321| John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford |b|1435| Mary Stuart |b|1605| Niels Juel |d|1697| Elizabeth Bacon Custer |b|1842| Allen Butler Talcott |b|1867| Marie Byles |b|1900| Betty Ford |b|1918| Sara Northrup Hollister |b|1924| Kofi Annan |b|1938| Jack Tramiel |d|2012|

Notes

• Alexios I Komnenos appears on April 4, so John II Komnenos should not appear in the same year

April 8

Little Nemo

• 1271 – Crusades: The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers, a castle in present-day Syria, to the army of the Mamluk sultan Baibars.
• 1904 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.
• 1911 – American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.
• 1933 – The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be unsuccessful.
• 1973 – The Norwegian Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo.

• Caracalla (d. 217)
• Mary Dee (b. 1912)
• TBJZL (b. 1993)

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