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| April 8th, 2008 (April 08 2008) | Event | Yi So-yeon became the first South Korean to fly in space. | |
| April 8th, 2008 (April 08 2008) | Death | Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (born in 1928) | |
| April 8th, 2008 (April 08 2008) | Death | John Button, Australian politician (born in 1933) | |
| April 8th, 2008 (April 08 2008) | Death | Stanley Kamel, American actor (born in 1943) | |
| April 8th, 1978 (April 08 1978) | Birth | Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress | |
| April 8th, 1978 (April 08 1978) | Birth | Bernt Haas, Swiss footballer | |
| April 8th, 1978 (April 08 1978) | Death | Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (born in 1894) | |
| April 8th, 1968 (April 08 1968) | Event | BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. | Jane Ace Quotes |
| April 8th, 1968 (April 08 1968) | Birth | Patricia Arquette, American actress | |
| April 8th, 1968 (April 08 1968) | Birth | Patricia Girard-Leno, French athlete (100 m hurdles) | |
| April 8th, 1968 (April 08 1968) | Birth | Tracy Grammer, American folk singer | |
| April 8th, 1948 (April 08 1948) | Birth | Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate | |
| April 8th, 1938 (April 08 1938) | Birth | Kofi Annan, Ghanaian United Nations Secretary General | |
| April 8th, 1928 (April 08 1928) | Birth | Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (died in 2000) | Yitzhak Rabin Quotes |
| April 8th, 1928 (April 08 1928) | Birth | Monty Sunshine, English jazz clarinetist | |
| April 8th, 1918 (April 08 1918) | Event | World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City s financial district. | Charlie Chaplin Quotes |
| April 8th, 1918 (April 08 1918) | Birth | Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States | |
| April 8th, 1918 (April 08 1918) | Birth | Glendon Swarthout, American author (died in 1992) | |
| April 8th, 1908 (April 08 1908) | Event | Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School. | |
| April 8th, 1908 (April 08 1908) | Birth | Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (died in 1987) | |
| April 8th, 1888 (April 08 1888) | Birth | Dennis Chavez, American politician (died in 1964) | |
| April 8th, 1848 (April 08 1848) | Death | Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (born in 1797) | |
| April 8th, 1818 (April 08 1818) | Birth | August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (died in 1892) | |
| April 8th, 1818 (April 08 1818) | Birth | King Christian IX of Denmark (died in 1906) | |
| April 8th, 1808 (April 08 1808) | Event | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore was promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII. | |
