8 April
Notable Births
A.J. & Big Justice
b. 2013
American father-and-son social media duo
Zaccharie Risacher
b. 2005
French basketball player (born 2005)
Jamie Drysdale
b. 2002
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2002)
Viktória Forster
b. 2002
Slovak athlete (born 2002)
Skai Jackson
b. 2002
American actress (born 2002)
CeeDee Lamb
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Lavinia Valbonesi
b. 1998
First Lady of Ecuador since 2023
Kim Woojin
b. 1997
South Korean singer (born 1997)
Roquan Smith
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Arno Verschueren
b. 1997
Belgian footballer (born 1997)
Keira Walsh
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Forrest Frank
b. 1995
American singer, songwriter and producer (born 1995)
Cedi Osman
b. 1995
Turkish basketball player (born 1995)
Viktor Arvidsson
b. 1993
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1993)
TBJZL
b. 1993
English YouTuber (born 1993)
Jeff McNeil
b. 1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Jonghyun
b. 1990
South Korean singer-songwriter (1990–2017)
Matty Healy
b. 1989
English singer-songwriter (born 1989)
John Havlicek
b. 1940
American basketball player (1940–2019)
Mary Pickford
b. 1892
Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
Notable Deaths
Nelsy Cruz
d. 2025
Dominican Republic politician (1982–2025)
Peter Higgs
d. 2024
British theoretical physicist (1929–2024)
Ralph Puckett
d. 2024
U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient (1926–2024)
Mimi Reinhardt
d. 2022
Austrian secretary (1915–2022)
Rick May
d. 2020
Canadian-American voice and theatre actor (1940–2020)
Abdul Momin Imambari
d. 2020
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1930–2020)
Jayakanthan
d. 2015
Indian writer, journalist, filmmaker
Rayson Huang
d. 2015
Hong Kong chemist
Jean-Claude Turcotte
d. 2015
Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (1936–2015)
Emmanuel III Delly
d. 2014
Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 2003 to 2012
Karlheinz Deschner
d. 2014
German writer and activist (1924–2014)
Ivan Mercep
d. 2014
New Zealand architect (1930–2014)
Mikhail Beketov
d. 2013
Russian journalist (1958–2013)
Annette Funicello
d. 2013
American actress and singer (1942–2013)
Sara Montiel
d. 2013
Spanish actress and singer (1928–2013)
José Luis Sampedro
d. 2013
Spanish economist and writer (1917–2013)
Margaret Thatcher
d. 2013
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
Blair Kiel
d. 2012
American football player (1961–2012)
Jack Tramiel
d. 2012
American businessman and Holocaust survivor (1928–2012)
Janusz K. Zawodny
d. 2012
On This Day in History
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2026
Operation Eternal Darkness: Hours after a ceasefire to the Iran war, Israeli attacks on Lebanon kill at least 357 and injures more than 1200 people in the largest airstrikes of the Lebanon war.
8 April 2026 Israeli attacks on Lebanon
2024
Solar eclipse: A total solar eclipse takes place at the Moon's ascending node, visible across North America.
Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024
2020
Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee.
Bernie Sanders
2014
Windows XP reaches its standard End Of Life and is no longer supported.
Windows XP
2010
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty.
Barack Obama
2005
A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005
2002
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-110, carrying the S0 truss to the International Space Station. Astronaut Jerry L. Ross also becomes the first person to fly on seven spaceflights.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1993
The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56.
Space Shuttle Discovery
1990
The conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis is elected in the Greek parliamentary election.
New Democracy (Greece)
1975
Voyageurs National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
Voyageurs National Park
1974
Hank Aaron passes Babe Ruth as the all-time leader in career home runs by hitting his 715th home run off of Al Downing at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
Hank Aaron
1970
Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing
1968
BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
BOAC Flight 712
1960
The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
Netherlands
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.
Grace Hopper
1959
The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
Organization of American States
1954
A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
North American T-6 Texan
1954
South African Airways Flight 201: A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
South African Airways Flight 201
1940
The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary, marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of Mongolia.
Mongolian People's Party
1933
The Australian state of Western Australia votes to secede from the federation in a non-binding referendum, although efforts to implement the result prove unsuccessful.
Western Australia