April 8th, 1970

Born on April 8th, 1970

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What happened on April 8th, 1970?

April 8th, 1970

Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahr_El-Baqar_primary_school_bombing

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, 1970

54

Will Bond

American politician

*April 8th, 1970, Jacksonville

54

Catherine Chidgey

New Zealand writer

*April 8th, 1970, Auckland

54

Andrej Plenković

Prime Minister of Croatia since 2016

*April 8th, 1970, Zagreb

54

Care Santos

Spanish writer

*April 8th, 1970, Mataró

54

Tiffany Shlain

American filmmaker and writer

*April 8th, 1970, Mill Valley

54

Bruno Stagno Ugarte

Costa Rican politician

*April 8th, 1970, Paris

54

Sami Lukis

TV personality

*April 8th, 1970, Brisbane

54

Kim Byung-ji

South Korean footballer

*April 8th, 1970, Miryang

54

Toby Morse

American musician

*April 8th, 1970, Taunton

54

Beatrice Bocci

Italian showgirl, beauty pageant winner and television presenter

*April 8th, 1970, San Giovanni Valdarno

54

Torill Eidsheim

Norwegian politician

*April 8th, 1970, Lindås Municipality

54

JR Bourne

Canadian actor

*April 8th, 1970, Toronto

54

Mario Kaiser

German journalist and author

*April 8th, 1970, Rheydt

54

Kosmonova

German DJ

*April 8th, 1970, Krefeld

54

Aleksandar Stanković

Croatian talk show host

*April 8th, 1970, Subotica

54

Patrick Mille

French actor

*April 8th, 1970, Lisbon

54

Zhang Jiayi

Chinese actor

*April 8th, 1970, Xi'an

54

Timm Peddie

American racing cyclist

*April 8th, 1970, Raleigh

54

Musa Kallon

Sierra Leonean footballer (born 1970)

*April 8th, 1970, Kenema

54

Michele McPhee

American journalist

*April 8th, 1970, Wakefield

54

Tom Holdman

American artist

*April 8th, 1970, Orem

54

Junji Ikoma

Mixed martial artist

*April 8th, 1970, Osaka Prefecture

54

Jan Wallentin

Swedish writer and journalist

*April 8th, 1970, Linköping

54

Dan Sealey

British musician

*April 8th, 1970, Redditch

54

Gerald Vaughn

Player of American and Canadian football

*April 8th, 1970, Abbeville

54

Mladen Erjavec

Croatian basketball player and basketball coach

*April 8th, 1970, Zagreb

54

Dainius Kreivys

Lithuanian politician

*April 8th, 1970, Jonava

54

Hanamaru Hakata

Japanese owarai tarento

*April 8th, 1970, Sawara-ku

54

Toshifumi Nanbu

Japanese businessperson

*April 8th, 1970, Iwate Prefecture

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Who's birthday is on April 8th?

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

44

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

49

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

48

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

56

Patricia Arquette

American actress (born 1968)

*April 8th, 1968, Chicago

61

Dean Norris

American actor

*April 8th, 1963, South Bend

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

58

Robin Wright

American actress

*April 8th, 1966, Dallas

80

Kofi Annan

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

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

27

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

20

Liu Shengshu

Chinese badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

65

Michael Hübner

East German road bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1959, Chemnitz

52

Piotr Świerczewski

Polish and French association football player

*April 8th, 1972, Nowy Sącz

68

Jim Piddock

British actor

*April 8th, 1956, Rochester

55

Dulce Pontes

Portuguese songwriter and singer

*April 8th, 1969, Montijo

49

Anouk

Dutch singer

*April 8th, 1975, The Hague

Same year
Born in 1970

53

Malena Ernman

Swedish opera singer

*November 4th, 1970, Uppsala Cathedral Assembly

54

Allan Fung

American politician in Rhode Island (born 1970)

*February 23rd, 1970, Providence

53

Shanti Roney

Swedish actor

*November 24th, 1970, Spånga

54

Mia X

American rapper

*January 9th, 1970, New Orleans

53

Mehmet Scholl

German association football player and manager

*October 16th, 1970, Karlsruhe

54

Gil Young-ah

South Korean badminton player

*April 11th, 1970, Ansan

46

Toby Smith

British musician (1970-2017)

*October 29th, 1970, London †April 11th, 2017, London

53

Melania Trump

First Lady of the United States (2017–2021), model, and businesswoman

*April 26th, 1970, Novo Mesto

54

Simon Pegg

English actor (born 1970)

*February 14th, 1970, Brockworth

54

Lara Fabian

Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter

*January 9th, 1970, Etterbeek

53

Colin Lawrence

Actor

*September 7th, 1970, London

53

Ethan Hawke

American actor and writer (b. 1970)

*November 6th, 1970, Austin

54

Ardy Wiranata

Badminton player

*February 10th, 1970, Jakarta

53

Erich Irlstorfer

German politician

*May 27th, 1970, Freising

54

Rachel Weisz

British-American actress

*March 7th, 1970, Westminster

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

53

Rhona Robertson

Badminton player

*July 19th, 1970, Auckland

53

Sandra Dimbour

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1970, Saint-Denis

53

Uma Thurman

American actress (born 1970)

*April 29th, 1970, Boston

53

Ted Cruz

United States Senator from Texas since 2013

*December 22nd, 1970, Calgary

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No: With 365 days 1970 is a normal year and no leap year.

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