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Historical Events
on April 8th
- Lead Story
- Aaron sets new home run record,1974
- American Revolution
- John Adams arrives in Paris to replace Silas Deane,1778
- Automotive
- Waltrip beats Petty in last-lap thriller,1979
- Civil War
- Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana,1864
- Cold War
- McCarthy publicly attacks Owen Lattimore,1950
- Crime
- Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agrees to plead guilty,2005
- Disaster
- California road race kills five,1916
- General Interest
- Buddhists celebrate birth of Gautama Buddha,-563
- WPA established by Congress,1935
- Kenyatta jailed for Mau Mau uprising,1953
- Hollywood
- Twin Peaks premieres on ABC,1990
- Literary
- Barbara Kingsolver is born,1955
- Music
- Kurt Cobain is found dead,1994
- Old West
- Elizabeth Bacon Custer is born in Michigan,1842
- Presidential
- FDR signs Emergency Relief Appropriation Act,1935
- Sports
- Aaron hits his 715th home run,1974
- Vietnam War
- North Vietnamese forces open a third front,1972
- Weyand reports to Congress,1975
- World War I
- Britain and France sign Entente Cordiale,1904
- World War II
- Russians attack Germans in drive to expel them from Crimea,1944
- Defiant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged,1945
- Omar Bradley dies,1981
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