April 8th, 1977

Born on April 8th, 1977

Age in days, weeks and months
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What 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.

April 8th, 1959

The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.

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

Born on April 8th, 1977

47

Ana de la Reguera

Mexican actress

*April 8th, 1977, Veracruz

47

Tiffany Sfikas

Figure skater

*April 8th, 1977, Chicago

47

Mark Spencer

Computer engineer

*April 8th, 1977, Auburn

47

Tomo Šokota

Croatian footballer

*April 8th, 1977, Zagreb

47

Shaka Smart

American basketball coach

*April 8th, 1977, Madison

47

Jiju Antony

Indian film director

*April 8th, 1977, Kuzhur

47

Kitty Jutbring

Swedish DJ and television host

*April 8th, 1977, Gothenburg

47

Sanal Kumar Sasidharan

Indian poet, lawyer, and filmmaker

*April 8th, 1977, Neyyattinkara

47

Jimmy Vásquez

Colombian actor

*April 8th, 1977, Cúcuta

47

Alex Beer

Austrian writer

*April 8th, 1977, Bregenz

47

Alejandro Botto

Argentinian actor

*April 8th, 1977, Buenos Aires

30

Mehran Ghassemi

Iranian writer

*April 8th, 1977, Shiraz †January 9th, 2008, Tehran

47

Sara Shepard

American author

*April 8th, 1977, Philadelphia

47

Vasilis Avramidis

Greek footballer

*April 8th, 1977, Thessaloniki

47

Susanna Heikari

Finnish footballer

*April 8th, 1977, Salo

47

Therese Sjögran

Swedish association football player

*April 8th, 1977, Södra Sandby

47

Olli Tukiainen

Finnish musician

*April 8th, 1977, Helsinki

47

Gustavo Aguirre

Argentine sprinter

*April 8th, 1977, Buenos Aires

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48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

48

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

44

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

49

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

48

Gabriel Rasch

Norwegian road bicycle racer and sporting director

*April 8th, 1976, Hole

45

Marzena Sowa

Comic author

*April 8th, 1979, Stalowa Wola

27

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

80

Kofi Annan

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

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

61

Dean Norris

American actor

*April 8th, 1963, South Bend

49

Anouk

Dutch singer

*April 8th, 1975, The Hague

43

Lito Sheppard

American football player, cornerback

*April 8th, 1981, Jacksonville

20

Liu Shengshu

Chinese badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

41

Alexi Laiho

Finnish musician (1979–2020)

*April 8th, 1979, Espoo †December 29th, 2020, Helsinki

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

58

Robin Wright

American actress

*April 8th, 1966, Dallas

54

Will Bond

American politician

*April 8th, 1970, Jacksonville

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Born in 1977

46

Zhang Jun

Chinese badminton player

*November 26th, 1977, Suzhou

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

46

Carsten Linnemann

German economist, politician

*August 10th, 1977, Paderborn

46

Anne Marie Waters

UK far-right politician (1977-)

*August 24th, 1977, Dublin

46

Emmanuel Macron

President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017

*December 21st, 1977, Amiens

46

Vanessa Trump

American model and actress

*December 18th, 1977, New York City

46

Gong Zhichao

Badminton player

*December 15th, 1977, Anhua County

46

Paul Kalkbrenner

German electronic musician

*June 11th, 1977, Leipzig

46

Ji Xinpeng

Chinese badminton player

*December 30th, 1977, Shashi District

46

Pernille Harder

Badminton player

*September 3rd, 1977, Odder Municipality

47

Wong Choong Hann

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1977, Kuala Lumpur

46

Gail Emms

Badminton player

*July 23rd, 1977, Hitchin

46

Melanie Lynskey

New Zealand actress

*May 16th, 1977, New Plymouth

46

José Antonio Crespo

Spanish badminton player

*June 24th, 1977, Arroyo de la Miel

46

Dave McCullen

Musician, music producer

*December 28th, 1977, Bonheiden

47

Shakira

Colombian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 2nd, 1977, Barranquilla

47

Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil

Danish politician

*January 17th, 1977, Zealand

47

Claudia Hiersche

German actress

*February 22nd, 1977, Frankfurt (Oder)

47

Sverre Rotevatn

Norwegian Nordic combined skier

*January 17th, 1977, Lillehammer Municipality

46

Anthony Clark

English badminton player

*November 1st, 1977, Derby

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1977 is a normal year and no leap year.

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