Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 8

This is a list of selected April 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Venus de Milo

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Blurb	Reason
Hanamatsuri in Japan	refimprove
1093 – Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire, one of the largest cathedrals in England, was dedicated by Bishop Walkelin.	refimprove
2008 – The wind turbines at the Bahrain World Trade Center, the first building to incorporate turbines into its design, became operational.	spam blacklist URL

Eligible

• 1271 – The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers to the army of the Mamluk sultan Baibars.
• 1341 – Italian scholar and poet Petrarch took the title poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome.
• 1740 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Royal Navy captured the Spanish ship of the line Princesa and mustered her into British service.
• 1820 – A Greek peasant discovered a statue of a woman with its arms missing—the Venus de Milo—on the Aegean island of Milos.
• 1886 – Prime Minister William Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, was renamed Times Square after The New York Times building.
• 1904 – British occultist and writer Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, one of The Holy Books of Thelema.
• 1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity.
• 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 suffered an engine fire shortly after take-off from London Heathrow Airport, leading to deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Barbara Jane Harrison, who was later awarded a posthumous George Cross for her heroism during the accident.
• 1992 – American tennis player Arthur Ashe announced that he had contracted HIV from blood transfusions; he would spend the remainder of his life as an AIDS activist.

April 8

• 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla was assassinated at a roadside near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.
• 876 – Forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated the army of the Saffarid amir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing Ya'qub to halt his advance into what is now Iraq.
• 1864 – American Civil War: A decisive Confederate victory in the Battle of Mansfield stopped the advance of the Union Army's Red River Campaign.
• 1904 – France and the United Kingdom signed the entente cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.
• 2008 – On board Soyuz TMA-12, Yi So-Yeon (pictured) became the first Korean person, and second Asian woman, to go into space.

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