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Notable anniversaries in history for today: April 8
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Hywel Bennett in South Wales; actor (Family Way, Shelley).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Roger Chapman in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; rock vocalist (Family - "Family Entertainment").
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Santiago Jimenez Junior; American accordionist ("El Mero Mero", "Viva Seguin").
- 70th: 1954 - A Comet plane disintegrates in mid-air 30 minutes after leaving Rome, Italy, airport, killing all on board.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Gary Carter; catcher (Montreal Expos, New York Mets).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of John Schneider in Mount Kisco, New York, USA; actor (Bo - The Dukes of Hazzard).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Biz Markie; rocker (Meteor Man, Townsend Television).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Valinda Hilleary in Littleton, Colorado, USA; WPVA volleyball player (US Open-9th-1993).
- 60th: 1964 - Unmanned Gemini 1 launched.
- 50th: 1974 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 714 homers.
- 40th: 1984 - 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster.
- 40th: 1984 - 4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins.
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Taran Noah Smith in San Francisco, California; actor (Mark Taylor - Home Improvement).
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1894).
- 30th: 1994 - Atlanta Braves' pitcher Kent Mercker no-hits Los Angeles Dodgers, 6-0.
- 30th: 1994 - Japan's premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns.
- 30th: 1994 - Smoking is banned in Pentagon and all US military bases.
- 30th: 1994 - Walter Arnold, German theologist (World council of Churches), dies at age 64.
- 30th: 1994 - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found dead in Seattle, Washington. His death is believed to have been a suicide.
- 25th: 1999 - In China, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurs. Also felt in southern Hokkaido, northern Honshu and at Tokyo, Japan.
- 20th: 2004 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average removes AT&T Corporation, Eastman Kodak Company and International Paper Company from its index, replacing them with American International Group Incorporated, Pfizer Incorporated, and Verizon Communications Incorporated.
- 20th: 2004 - The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
- 15th: 2009 - Pulte Homes in the USA announces it will buy rival Centex Corp in a US$1.3 billion all-stock deal to create the largest U.S. homebuilder.
- 15th: 2009 - The NASA Kepler satellite begins its 3.5-year mission of taking pictures in the Cygnus-Lyra region of space, comprising about 4.5 million stars. Scientists will look for dips in starlight indicating passing planets in front of parent stars.
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