04-08-2005, 05:12 AM
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April 8th
1848 ~ Death of Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer.
1889 ~ Birthday of Sir Adrien Boult, English conductor.
1899 ~ Martha Place became the first woman to be executed in an electric chair.
1913 ~ The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified requiring direct election of Senators.
1919 ~ Birthday of Ian Smith, former Prime Minister of Rhodesia.
1950 ~ Death of Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer.
1953 ~ Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta was convicted by Kenya's British rulers.
1973 ~ Death of Pablo Picasso, artist.
1983 ~ Death of Omar Bradley, general.
1992 ~ Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announced to the world that he had AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
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