What happend on 8th April

07.04
09.04
1945

At the POW camp at Flossenbürg, pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged.

1942

World War II: Siege of Leningrad

1935

The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.

1929

Indian Independence Movement At Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw handouts, and bombs in a corridor not to cause injury and courted arrest.

1918

World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York, New York's financial district.

1916

In Corona, California, auto racer Bob Burman crashed through a crowd barrier at the last Boulevard Race, killing himself, his mechanic and a track policeman, and badly injuring five spectators.

1913

The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified requiring direct election of Senators.

1910

The Los Angeles Motordome opened near Playa del Rey, California.

1904

Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.

1904

France and the United Kingdom sign the Entente cordiale.