April 8th, 1954

Born on April 8th, 1954

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What happened on April 8th, 1954?

April 8th, 1954

South African Airways Flight 201: A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_201

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, which 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 establish 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 Baybars.

April 8th, 0876

Abbasid forces decisively defeated the 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

The Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue of a woman with its arms missing, was discovered on the 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, 1954

70

Ann Hould-Ward

American costume designer

*April 8th, 1954, Glasgow

70

Patrizia Caraveo

Italian astrophysicist

*April 8th, 1954, Milan

70

Walid Toufic

Lebanese musician

*April 8th, 1954, Tripoli

70

Ian Milne

Irish republican politician (born 1954)

*April 8th, 1954, Bellaghy

70

Jeanne Sakata

American actress

*April 8th, 1954, Santa Cruz

53

G. V. Loganathan

Professor of civil and environmental engineering

*April 8th, 1954, Karattadipalayam †April 16th, 2007, Blacksburg

58

Lalla Amina of Morocco

Moroccan royal (1954-2012)

*April 8th, 1954, Antsirabe †August 16th, 2012, Rabat

57

Gary Carter

American Major League Baseball player and sports announcer (1954-2012)

*April 8th, 1954, Culver City †February 16th, 2012, Palm Beach Gardens

70

Toivo Sukari

Finnish businessman

*April 8th, 1954, Karjala

70

Peter Rinearson

American journalist

*April 8th, 1954, Seattle

70

Gheorghe Huțan

Romanian ice hockey player

*April 8th, 1954, Rădăuți

70

Ali Seif

Tanzanian Member of Parliament

*April 8th, 1954, Sultanate of Zanzibar

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Who's birthday is on April 8th?

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

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

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

69

Barbara Kingsolver

American author, poet and essayist

*April 8th, 1955, Annapolis

68

Jim Piddock

British actor

*April 8th, 1956, Rochester

80

Kofi Annan

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

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

44

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

61

Dean Norris

American actor

*April 8th, 1963, South Bend

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

49

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

72

Andrew Stahl

American actor

*April 8th, 1952, San Antonio

48

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

65

Michael Hübner

East German road bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1959, Chemnitz

27

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

69

Ron Johnson

American politician (born 1955)

*April 8th, 1955, Mankato

20

Liu Shengshu

Chinese badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

58

Robin Wright

American actress

*April 8th, 1966, Dallas

77

Bernard Cerquiglini

French linguist

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

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Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

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No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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