On This Day
8 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1857 Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857, was hanged to death at age 29. He was a sepoy in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry regiment of the British East India Company. In 1984, the Indian government issued a postage stamp to remember him.
- 1894 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (also Chattopadhayay), novelist, poet and journalist, died in Kolkata. He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is one of the landmarks of modern Bengali and Indian literaure. India's national song Vande Mataram is taken from this novel.
- 1929 Revolutionaries Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs at the Central Legislative Assembly at Delhi to court arrest.
- 1950 Jawaharlal Nehru of India concluded the Delhi Pact with Liaqat Ali Khan of Pakistan, providing for the safe passage of refugees displaced after the two countries severed relations in December 1949.
- 1965 India and Pakistan engaged in a border fight involving both countries' border patrols in the Rann of Kutch.
- 1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1820 The famous ancient Greek statue, Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
- 1904 Britain and France signed a series of agreements dubbed the entente cordial. It marked the end of almost a century of intermittent conflict between the two nations and their predecessor states.
- 1943 James Herbert, popular English horror writer, was born. A full-time writer, he also designed his own book covers and publicity.
- 1953 Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's founding father who became the country's first President in 1964, was sentenced to 7 years hard labour for leading the Mau Mau movement against the British colonialists.
- 1959 COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language), one of the first modern programming languages was introduced. It was primarily designed by a woman, Grace Hopper ("Amazing Grace"), who is regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of programming languages.
- 1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, died. He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement.
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