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Events on April 8

• 1708 The oratorio La Resurrezione by the young George Frideric Handel is performed for the first time in Rome.
• 1784 The German-British astronomer William Herschel discovers six previously unknown galaxies: Messier 91 and NGC 4419 in the constellation Coma Berenices, NGC 4438 in the constellation Virgo, as well as NGC 3377, NGC 3412 and NGC 3628 in the constellation Leo.
• 1874 In the German Empire, the Reich Vaccination Act makes vaccination against smallpox compulsory for children.
• 1904 The Longacre Square in Manhattan, New York City, is renamed Times Square after the newspaper The New York Times.
• 1945 More than 200 US bombers destroy 82 percent of Halberstadt's city center in a heavy air raid. Around 2,500 people are killed in the air raid, and the volume of rubble amounts to about 1.5 million cubic meters.
• 1967 In Vienna, British pop singer Sandie Shaw wins the twelfth Eurovision Song Contest with Puppet on a String.
• 1986 Actor Clint Eastwood is elected mayor of the California town of Carmel-by-the-Sea as the Republican Party candidate by a large majority of those voting.
• 2002 Entrepreneur Leo Kirch's media conglomerate, the Kirch Group, must file for insolvency due to liabilities amounting to over 7 billion euros.
• 2005 Pope John Paul II is buried in St Peter's Basilica in Rome. Around 3.5 million people come to Rome for the funeral mass.
• 2008 A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launches for the Soyuz TMA-12 mission toward the International Space Station (ISS). On board are Commander Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko, as well as research cosmonaut Yi So-yeon, making her the first South Korean in space.
• 2012 Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai declares writer Günter Grass persona non grata because of his controversial poem What Must Be Said.
• 2018 Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz Party emerges as the clear winner of Hungary's parliamentary election with 49.2 percent of the votes.

Born on April 8

• 1859 Edmund Husserl, German philosopher
• 1862 August Aschinger, German restaurateur
• 1875 Albert I., King of the Belgians
• 1892 Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect
• 1941 Vivienne Westwood, British fashion designer
• 1942 Roger Chapman, British singer
• 1950 Grzegorz Lato, Polish football player
• 1972 Paul Gray, American musician
• 1980 Katee Sackhoff, American actress
• 1990 Karim Bellarabi, German-Moroccan football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „8. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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