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Events from History on April 08

1992 : "5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 445 perfs
1990 : "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
1954 : "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 270 perfs
1979 : "Carmelina" opens at St James Theater NYC for 17 performances
1970 : "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances
1991 : "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances
1985 : "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 perfs
1950 : "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances
1961 : "Show Girl" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 100 perfs
1931 : "White Horse Inn" opens in London
1716 : & marries Czar Peter the Great's niece
1984 : 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1913 : 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
1989 : 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn
1848 : 1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1766 : 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
1730 : 1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
1971 : 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
1979 : 204th & final episode of "All in the Family"
1968 : 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of M L King
1956 : 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC
2001 : 65th Golf Masters Championship:
1979 : 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1942 : A Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in NYC
1962 : Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
1939 : ACV soccer team forms in Axes
1966 : AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
1992 : After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue
1195 : Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isa„k II as Byzantine emperor
1455 : Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1972 : Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings v NZ
1985 : Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
1869 : American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC)
1876 : Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan
1994 : Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
1935 : Bart¢ks 5th String quartet premieres in Wash DC
1378 : Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1968 : Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of M L King assassination
1500 : Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
1848 : Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
1898 : Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
1864 : Battle of Mansfield, La Federals routed by Gen Richard Taylor
1995 : BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted
1961 : British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1759 : British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1783 : Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1986 : Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day
1968 : Czechoslovakia Cernik govt forms
1953 : Dag Hammarskj”ld chosen as secretary-general of UN
1994 : Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
1974 : Discovery Island opens
1931 : Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "The Arrow," premieres
1716 : Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia
1989 : Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman
1513 : Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain
1341 : Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
1975 : Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats NY 5-3)
1802 : French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled
1865 : General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
1940 : Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1904 : Gr Brit & France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
1943 : Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
1974 : Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record
1789 : House of Representives 1st meeting
1985 : India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
1993 : Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks)
1981 : Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
1977 : Israel premier Rabin resigns
1994 : Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
1991 : Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident
1941 : Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1862 : John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
1943 : Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
1879 : Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
1990 : King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
1939 : King Zog I of Albania, flees
1947 : Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed
1946 : League of Nations assembles for last time
1966 : Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party
1920 : LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg
1908 : Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier
1991 : Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement
1933 : Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror
1991 : Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas
1997 : Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1879 : Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1945 : Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
1960 : Neth & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1968 : New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1916 : Norway approves active & passive female suffrage
1990 : Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
1991 : Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking
1966 : OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
1995 : Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1913 : Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1982 : Penguins 2-Isles 4-Preliminary-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1979 : People's Republic of China joins IOC
1781 : Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
1952 : Pres Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike
1970 : Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
1994 : Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
1948 : Soen Nakagawa & Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF
1801 : Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews
1912 : Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200
1838 : Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC)
1997 : STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands
1993 : STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1893 : The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
1963 : Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000
1964 : Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1914 : US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone
1861 : US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy
1968 : WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1935 : Works Progress Administration approved by Congress

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