April 8th, 1950

Born on April 8th, 1950

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What happened on April 8th, 1950?

April 8th, 1950

India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

What else happened on April 8th?

April 8th, 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.

April 8th, 1959

A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the creation of a common business-oriented programming language that became COBOL.

April 8th, 1943

Otto and Elise Hampel were executed in Berlin for performing acts of resistance against Nazism.

April 8th, 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.

April 8th, 1933

The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be unsuccessful.

April 8th, 1911

American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.

April 8th, 1904

France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.

April 8th, 1864

American Civil War: Late-arriving reinforcements helped Confederate forces rout the Union Army at the Battle of Mansfield.

April 8th, 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.

April 8th, 1271

Crusades: The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers, a castle in present-day Syria, to the army of the Mamluk sultan Baibars.

April 8th, 0876

Abbasid forces decisively defeated those of Saffarid emir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing the latter to halt his advance into Iraq.

April 8th, 0217

Roman emperor Caracalla (pictured) was assassinated near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.

April 8th, 1820

A Greek peasant discovered a statue of a woman with its arms missing—the Venus de Milo—on the Aegean island of Milos.

April 8th, 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 8th

Born on April 8th, 1950

74

Grzegorz Lato

Polish footballer and manager

*April 8th, 1950, Malbork

71

Jean-Pierre Pernaut

French broadcaster

*April 8th, 1950, Amiens †March 2nd, 2022, Georges Pompidou European Hospital

74

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Polish-American chemist famous for discovering 'Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization' (ATRP) technique for polymer synthesis

*April 8th, 1950, Konstantynów Łódzki

74

Milan Uzelac

Serbian poet

*April 8th, 1950, Vršac

74

Krasimir Borisov

Bulgarian footballer

*April 8th, 1950, Sofia

71

Margrit Wetzel

German politician

*April 8th, 1950, Hamburg †May 14th, 2021

74

Nobuo Fujishima

Japanese association football player

*April 8th, 1950, Akita

74

Marie-Jeanne Musiol

Canadian; Photographer

*April 8th, 1950, Winterthur

74

Leo Marian Vodička

Czech actor and opera singer

*April 8th, 1950, Brno

74

Lee In-sook

Olympic volleyball player

*April 8th, 1950, South Korea

74

Randy Wyrozub

Canadian ice hockey player

*April 8th, 1950, Lacombe

74

Jimmy Tillette

College basketball coach

*April 8th, 1950, New Orleans

74

Jim Sykes

American politician

*April 8th, 1950, Rapid City

74

Gerd-Volker Schock

German footballer and manager

*April 8th, 1950, Bad Schwartau

74

Dennis Meyer

Player of American and Canadian football

*April 8th, 1950, Jefferson City

74

Bud Phillips

American politician in Virginia (born 1950)

*April 8th, 1950, Clintwood

74

Olga Andreevna Romanova

Member of the Romanov family and president of the Romanov Family Association

*April 8th, 1950, London

74

Yevgeny Savchenko

Russian politician

*April 8th, 1950, Krasnaya Yaruga

74

Suzanna Love

Film actress

*April 8th, 1950, New York City

70

Bijay Mohanty

Indian actor (1950-2020)

*April 8th, 1950, Kendrapara district †July 20th, 2020, Bhubaneswar

71

José Marcelino

Brazilian volleyball player

*April 8th, 1950, Santos †November 30th, 2021

71

Lloyd Sauder

Canadian politician

*April 8th, 1950, Carrot River †July 19th, 2021

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77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

80

Kofi Annan

7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)

*April 8th, 1938, Kumasi †August 18th, 2018, Bern

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

44

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

76

Walter Planckaert

Road bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1948, Nevele

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

49

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

61

Dean Norris

American actor

*April 8th, 1963, South Bend

77

Bernard Cerquiglini

French linguist

*April 8th, 1947, 6th arrondissement of Lyon

68

Jim Piddock

British actor

*April 8th, 1956, Rochester

48

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

73

Geir Haarde

Icelandic politician and former head of government

*April 8th, 1951, Reykjavík

27

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

69

Barbara Kingsolver

American author, poet and essayist

*April 8th, 1955, Annapolis

65

Michael Hübner

East German road bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1959, Chemnitz

73

Gerd Andres

German politician

*April 8th, 1951, Wirges

20

Liu Shengshu

Chinese badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

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Born in 1950

67

Jeff Lowe

American mountain climber

*September 13th, 1950, Ogden †August 24th, 2018, Colorado

73

Annette Badland

English actress

*August 26th, 1950, Edgbaston

73

Narendra Modi

14th Prime Minister of India

*September 17th, 1950, Vadnagar

66

Martin McGuinness

Sinn Féin politician and deputy First Minister (1950-2017)

*May 23rd, 1950, Derry †March 21st, 2017, Altnagelvin Area Hospital

74

Billy Currie

British multi-instrumentalist

*April 1st, 1950, Huddersfield

66

Sandra Reemer

Dutch singer and presenter (1950–2017)

*October 17th, 1950, Bandung City †June 6th, 2017, Amsterdam

73

Øivind Blunck

Norwegian actor and comedian

*December 28th, 1950, Norway

73

Wayne Eagling

Canadian ballet dancer

*November 27th, 1950, Montreal

74

Peter Funke

German historian of classical antiquity

*March 18th, 1950, Rheine

74

Rötger Feldmann

German comic artist

*March 17th, 1950, Travemünde

73

Pedro Barceló

Spanish historian of classical antiquity

*April 30th, 1950, Vinaròs

70

Jóhannes Eðvaldsson

Icelandic football player (1950-2021)

*September 3rd, 1950, Reykjavík †January 24th, 2021, Glasgow

74

Ade Chandra

Badminton player

*February 4th, 1950, Jakarta

73

Ed Harris

American actor and director (born 1950)

*November 28th, 1950, Englewood

67

Horace Burrell

Jamaican sports executive

*February 8th, 1950, Clarendon Parish †June 6th, 2017, Kingston

73

Harriet Walter

British actress

*September 24th, 1950, London

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

73

Stevie Wonder

American musician (born 1950)

*May 13th, 1950, Saginaw

74

William Sadler

American actor

*April 13th, 1950, Buffalo

74

Debbie Allen

American actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, singer, and dancer

*January 16th, 1950, Houston

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