Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 8

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• Bust of Caracalla
  Bust of Caracalla
• Bust of Caracalla
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• Bust of Caracalla (requires undeletion)
  Bust of Caracalla (requires undeletion)
• Winchester Cathedral
  Winchester Cathedral
• Times Square
  Times Square
• Petrarch
  Petrarch
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
• Yi So-yeon
  Yi So-yeon
• Venus de Milo
  Venus de Milo
• Capture of Princesa
  Capture of Princesa
• Bust of Caracalla
  Bust of Caracalla

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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.	lots of CN tags (8), could use more
1250 – Seventh Crusade: Egyptian Ayyubid forces defeated the Crusader army at the Battle of Fariskur in Egypt, capturing King Louis IX of France.	citation issues
1341 – Italian scholar and poet Petrarch took the title of poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome.	refimprove section
1740 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Royal Navy captured the Spanish ship of the line Princesa, which was later taken into British service.	Date in source is 9th
1857 – Gallaudet University, the world's only university for hearing-impaired students, was established in Washington, D.C.	date not cited, unreferenced section
1886 – British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone introduced the Government of Ireland Bill in the House of Commons.	lots of CN tags in one section
1904 – British occultist and writer Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, one of the Holy Books of Thelema.	date not cited, refimprove section
1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity.	refimprove section
1992 – American tennis player Arthur Ashe announced that he had contracted HIV from blood transfusions; he spent the remainder of his life as an AIDS activist.	refimprove section
2008 – The wind turbines at the Bahrain World Trade Center, the first building to incorporate turbines into its design, became operational.	short, needs update
2008 – On board [[Soyuz TMA-12|Soyuz Template:Nowrap]], Yi So-yeon became the first Korean astronaut.	CN tags (5)
2013 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Al-Nusra Front, two Sunni Muslim extremist groups, merged to form the Islamic State.	8 April date isn't sourced (or even mentioned) in target article
Philip IV of Spain |b|1605	multiple issues
Dionysios Solomos |b|1798|	refimprove
Dead |d|1991	unreferenced section (discography)

Eligible

• 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla (pictured) was assassinated near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.
• 876 – Abbasid forces decisively defeated the Saffarid emir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing the latter to halt his advance into Iraq.
• 1630 – Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany, New York, to establish Rensselaerswyck, which became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company.
• 1820 – The Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue of a woman with its arms missing, was discovered on the island of Milos.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Late-arriving reinforcements helped Confederate forces rout the Union Army at the Battle of Mansfield.
• 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan was renamed Times Square after the New York Times building.
• 1917 – World War I: German naval officer Wilhelm Werner murdered 19 captured crew members of the British cargo ship Template:SS by submerging Template:SMU when they were on deck.
• 1959 – A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the creation of a common business-oriented programming language, which became COBOL.
• 1942 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces flew its first mission from India over the Hump (the eastern end of the Himalayas) to deliver materiel to China.
• 1943 – Otto and Elise Hampel were executed in Berlin for performing acts of resistance against Nazism.
• 1961 – A large explosion on board the Template:MV in the Persian Gulf killed 238 people.
• 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 experienced an engine fire shortly after take-off from London Heathrow, leading to the deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Jane Harrison, who was posthumously awarded a George Cross for heroism.
• Born/died: | John II Komnenos |d|1143| Thomas of Tolentino |d|1321| John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford |b|1435| Mary Stuart |b|1605| Niels Juel |d|1697| Elizabeth Bacon Custer |b|1842| Allen Butler Talcott |b|1867| Marie Byles |b|1900| Betty Ford |b|1918| Sara Northrup Hollister |b|1924| Kofi Annan |b|1938| Gennady Golovkin |b|1982| Jack Tramiel |d|2012|

Notes

• Alexios I Komnenos appears on April 4, so John II Komnenos should not appear in the same year

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• 1271 – Crusades: The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers, a castle in present-day Syria, to the army of the Mamluk sultan Baybars.
• 1904 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.
• 1911 – American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.
• 1933 – The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be unsuccessful.
• 1973 – The Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo, Norway.