April 8th, 1980

Born on April 8th, 1980

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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, 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.

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, 1980

44

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

44

Bastien Gallet

French rower

*April 8th, 1980, Paris

44

Manuel Ortega

Austrian singer

*April 8th, 1980, Steyregg

44

Kim Weger

Canadian speed skater

*April 8th, 1980, Regina

44

Bernadett Dira

Hungarian biathlete

*April 8th, 1980, Budapest

44

Marion Montaigne

French comics artist and popularizer of science

*April 8th, 1980, Saint-Denis

44

Josep Ayala

Andorran association football player

*April 8th, 1980, Sant Julià de Lòria

44

Ali Bahadır Bahar

Turkish actor

*April 8th, 1980, İzmir

44

Roman Kukumberg

Slovak ice hockey player

*April 8th, 1980, Bratislava

44

Gheorghe Bucur

Romanian footballer

*April 8th, 1980, Bucharest

44

Josef Hamouz

Association football player

*April 8th, 1980, Ostrov

44

Diamá

Swiss singer

*April 8th, 1980, Schlieren

44

Simone Oberer

Swiss athletics competitor

*April 8th, 1980, Bottmingen

44

David Marrero

Spanish tennis player

*April 8th, 1980, Telde

44

Mariko Seyama

Japanese television announcer, model and actress

*April 8th, 1980, Bunkyo

44

Amelie McKendry

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Buffalo

44

Farah Quinn

Indonesian chef

*April 8th, 1980, Bandung

44

Aktar Islam

English chef

*April 8th, 1980, Birmingham

44

João Paulo Pinto Ribeiro

Portuguese footballer

*April 8th, 1980, Porto

44

Yuta Yazaki

Japanese judoka

*April 8th, 1980, Tokyo

44

Ulaş Güler

Turkish footballer

*April 8th, 1980, Aydın Province

44

Thiago Gentil

Brazilian footballer

*April 8th, 1980, São Paulo

44

Songsak Hemkeaw

Thai footballer

*April 8th, 1980, Chaiyaphum

44

Ross Golan

American songwriter, record producer and playwright

*April 8th, 1980, Evanston

44

Ronald Siler

American boxer

*April 8th, 1980, Knoxville

44

Roen Nelson

Jamaican footballer

*April 8th, 1980, Jamaica

44

Ramesh Lai Ban Huat

Malaysian footballer

*April 8th, 1980, Perak

44

Matthew Rieck

Australian rugby league footballer

*April 8th, 1980, Penrith

44

René Trehkopf

German footballer

*April 8th, 1980, Altdöbern

44

František Metelka

Footballer

*April 8th, 1980, Vítkov

44

Cheryl Valentine

Scottish field hockey player

*April 8th, 1980, Dundee

44

Candace Otto

American model

*April 8th, 1980, Pittsburgh

44

Korel Engin

Basketball player

*April 8th, 1980, Bothell

44

Frederich Cepeda

Baseball player

*April 8th, 1980, Sancti Spíritus

44

Abdel Aziz Moussa

Angolan basketball player

*April 8th, 1980, N'Djamena

44

Subhi Abdilah Bakir

Association football player

*April 8th, 1980, Brunei

44

Eric Aiken

American boxer

*April 8th, 1980, Marysville

44

James Beim

British polo player

*April 8th, 1980, Nuneaton

44

Matt Dzieduszycki

Canadian ice hockey player

*April 8th, 1980, Mississauga

44

Nikolina Pišek

Croatian television presenter and actor

*April 8th, 1980, Zagreb

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Who's birthday is on April 8th?

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

48

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

49

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

43

Lito Sheppard

American football player, cornerback

*April 8th, 1981, Jacksonville

45

Marzena Sowa

Comic author

*April 8th, 1979, Stalowa Wola

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

43

Wouter Van Mechelen

Belgian bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1981, Antwerp

27

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

41

Alexi Laiho

Finnish musician (1979–2020)

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

80

Kofi Annan

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

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

43

Taylor Kitsch

Canadian actor and model

*April 8th, 1981, Kelowna

20

Liu Shengshu

Chinese badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

42

Aleksejs Saramotins

Latvian racing cyclist

*April 8th, 1982, Riga

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

24

Don Xhoni

Albanian rapper

*April 8th, 2000, Çikatova e Re

42

Allu Arjun

Indian actor

*April 8th, 1982, Chennai

39

Marie Marchand-Arvier

French alpine skier

*April 8th, 1985, Laxou

Same year
Born in 1980

44

Kristen Bell

American actress (born 1980)

*July 18th, 1980, Huntington Woods

44

Cai Yun

Chinese badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Suzhou

44

Gucci Mane

American rapper (born 1980)

*February 12th, 1980, Bessemer

44

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

44

Volker Bruch

German actor

*March 9th, 1980, Munich

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

44

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

43

Dag Inge Ulstein

Norwegian politician

*December 4th, 1980, Sula

44

Joy Mogensen

Danish politician

*August 11th, 1980, Toronto

44

Sudheer Babu

Indian film actor and former professional badminton player

*May 11th, 1980, Vijayawada

43

Maya Diab

Lebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality

*November 12th, 1980, Beirut

44

Abeer Nehme

Lebanese singer and a musicologist

*May 19th, 1980, Tannourine

44

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

43

Matias Varela

Swedish actor

*November 1st, 1980, Stockholm

44

Mathias Boe

Danish badminton player

*July 11th, 1980, Frederikssund

44

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

38

Vibeke Skofterud

Norwegian cross country skier

*April 20th, 1980, Askim Municipality †July 29th, 2018, Hove

43

Mustafa Ceceli

Turkish singer

*November 2nd, 1980, Ankara

44

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

44

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Emir of Qatar

*June 3rd, 1980, Doha

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Public holidays on April 8th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on April 8th.

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Leap year

Yes: 1980 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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