04-08-2006, 06:53 AM
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April 8th
1820 ~ The Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1848 ~ Death of Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer.
1889 ~ Birthday of Sir Adrien Boult, English Conductor.
1919 ~ Birthday of Ian Smith, former Prime Minister of Rhodesia.
1945 ~ Pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at the POW camp at Flossenbürg.
1953 ~ Jomo Kenyatta was convicted of being a member of the Mau Mau.
1973 ~ Death of Pablo Picasso, artist.
1975 ~ Frank Robinson managed his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
1983 ~ Death of Omar Bradley, General.
2005 ~ The funeral of Pope John Paul II.
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