April 8th, 1987

Born on April 8th, 1987

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What happened on April 8th, 1987?

April 8th, 1987

Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racist remarks he had made while on Nightline.

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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, 1987

37

Royston Drenthe

Dutch professional footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Rotterdam

37

Nithya Menen

Indian actress (1987-)

*April 8th, 1987, Bengaluru

37

Sam Rapira

New Zealand rugby league footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Hamilton

37

Peter Hickman

British motorcycle racer

*April 8th, 1987, Burton upon Trent

37

Jeremy Hellickson

American professional baseball pitcher

*April 8th, 1987, Des Moines

37

Melissa Horn

Swedish singer

*April 8th, 1987, Hedvig Eleonora parish

28

Abdelhamid Abaaoud

Belgian-Moroccan Islamic terrorist

*April 8th, 1987, Molenbeek †November 18th, 2015, Saint-Denis

37

Rachel Liang

Taiwanese singer

*April 8th, 1987, Maolin District

37

Tianwa Yang

Chinese violinist

*April 8th, 1987, Beijing

37

Gabriella Demetriades

South African model

*April 8th, 1987, Gqeberha

37

Jim Jacob

Indian composer, singer, Sound Engineer and Guitarist in Malayalam films

*April 8th, 1987, Ernakulam

37

Yonder Alonso

Cuban professional baseball player

*April 8th, 1987, Havana

37

Tyler McNeely

Canadian ice hockey player

*April 8th, 1987, Burnaby

37

Ezekiel Bala

Nigerian footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Jos

37

Jerry Bengtson

Honduran footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Santa Rosa de Aguán

37

Tresor Kangambu

Congolese footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Democratic Republic of the Congo

37

Rohan Mehra

Indian model and television actor

*April 8th, 1987, Amritsar

37

Darrel Young

American football player

*April 8th, 1987, North Amityville

37

Shareece Wright

American football cornerback

*April 8th, 1987, Colton

37

Faith Fay

American actress

*April 8th, 1987, Honolulu

37

Nils Babin

German handball player

*April 8th, 1987, Greven

37

Elton John

Trinidad Tobago footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Trinidad and Tobago

37

Abby Pivaronas

Actress

*April 8th, 1987, Chicago

37

Dario Vidošić

Australian association football player

*April 8th, 1987, Osijek

37

Alex Boisvert-Lacroix

Canadian speed skater and former short track speed skater

*April 8th, 1987, Sherbrooke

37

Vukašin Tomić

Serbian football player

*April 8th, 1987, Kruševac

37

Vincent Labonté

Footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Mauritius

37

Sayed Mosaad

Egyptian footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Ismailia

37

Ionuț Țăran

Romanian luger

*April 8th, 1987, Toplița

37

Robert Kasprzak

Polish speedway rider

*April 8th, 1987, Leszno

37

Mohamed Ben Ismail

Tunisian association football player

*April 8th, 1987, Tunisia

37

Hanna Demydova

Ukrainian triple jumper

*April 8th, 1987, Sumy

37

Vishnu Vinay

Indian actor

*April 8th, 1987, Kochi

37

Darion Anderson

American basketball player

*April 8th, 1987, Chicago

37

Bruno Postiglioni

Argentine rugby union footballer

*April 8th, 1987, La Plata

37

Brad Snetsinger

Canadian ice hockey player

*April 8th, 1987, Ajax

37

Bartosz Majewski

Polish modern pentathlete

*April 8th, 1987, Zielona Góra

37

Atanas Arshinkov

Bulgarian footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Blagoevgrad

37

Ashley Lemince

Footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Mauritius

37

Arassen Ragaven

Mauritian-French Footballer

*April 8th, 1987, Paris

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Who's birthday is on April 8th?

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

44

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

38

Igor Akinfeev

Russian association football player

*April 8th, 1986, Vidnoye

27

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

49

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

48

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

36

Riccardo Zoidl

Austrian racing cyclist

*April 8th, 1988, Linz

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

20

Liu Shengshu

Chinese badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

27

Kim Jong-hyun

South Korean singer and dancer (1990–2017)

*April 8th, 1990, Hyehwa-dong †December 18th, 2017, Cheongdam-dong

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

35

Arvis Vilkaste

Latvian bobsledder

*April 8th, 1989, Balvi Municipality

80

Kofi Annan

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

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

40

Jean-Marc Bideau

Cyclist

*April 8th, 1984, Quimperlé

43

Lito Sheppard

American football player, cornerback

*April 8th, 1981, Jacksonville

33

Monica Lanz

Dutch rower

*April 8th, 1991, Zwartsluis

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

61

Dean Norris

American actor

*April 8th, 1963, South Bend

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Born in 1987

36

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper, singer and record producer (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

36

Tontowi Ahmad

Indonesian badminton player

*July 18th, 1987, Banyumas

37

Annari Viljoen

Badminton player

*January 16th, 1987, Bloemfontein

36

Jax Jones

English DJ, songwriter, record producer and remixer

*July 25th, 1987, London

36

Kontra K

German rapper

*July 3rd, 1987, Berlin

36

Milan Borjan

Canadian association football player

*October 23rd, 1987, Knin

37

Eva Avila

Canadian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 25th, 1987, Gatineau

36

Philippa Strache

Austrian presenter and politician

*December 1st, 1987, Vienna

36

Rosalie Thomass

German actress

*August 14th, 1987, Munich

36

Lionel Messi

Argentine association football player (born 1987)

*June 24th, 1987, Rosario

36

Vladimir Ivanov

Russian badminton player

*July 3rd, 1987, Kusa

37

Andrew Ellis

Badminton player

*January 21st, 1987, Leeds

36

Shendy Puspa Irawati

Indonesian badminton player

*May 20th, 1987, Nganjuk

36

Sevdaliza

Iranian-Dutch singer-songwriter, record producer, visual artist and director

*September 1st, 1987, Tehran

37

Anna Hopkins

Canadian actress

*February 12th, 1987, Montreal

37

Vaidas Baumila

Lithuanian singer

*March 28th, 1987, Vilnius

37

Megan Sweeney

American luger

*February 17th, 1987, Portland

36

Duda Beat

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*October 8th, 1987, Recife

37

Kevin-Prince Boateng

Ghanaian association football player

*March 6th, 1987, West Berlin

36

Novak Djokovic

Serbian tennis player (1987–)

*May 22nd, 1987, Belgrade

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No: With 365 days 1987 is a normal year and no leap year.

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