Today in History for 8th April 2014

Historical Events

1801 - Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews

1916 - Norway approves active and passive female suffrage

1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time

1985 - Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix

1990 - King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties

1992 - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue

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Famous Birthdays

1541 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)

1904 - John R Hicks, British economist (Nobel 1972)

1929 - Renzo de Felice, historian

1929 - WIlliam K Everson, film historian

1948 - Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate

1979 - Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)

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Famous Deaths

1461 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)

1697 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)

1931 - Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies

1950 - Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London

1990 - Doreen Sloane, dies

1997 - Laura Nyro, singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49

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