Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Significance of April 08 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1929  Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.   

1931  Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies.   

1933  Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror.   

1935  2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen claims, shooting a 282.   

1935  Edwin Cannan, economist, dies   

1937  Seymour Hersh, American journalist is born   

1937  Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer, dies at 84   

1938  Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for S Af), dies   

1939  ACV soccer team forms in Axes   

1940  HMS GLOWWORM (Lt Cdr Gerard Roope+, awarded VC), sunk , NW of Trondheim in Norwegian Sea by German 8in-gunned heavy cruiser 'Admiral Hipper'. Detached from screen for British minelaying operations to search for man overboard at time of German invasion of Norway; 40 survivors. 'Hipper' damaged when rammed by 'Glowworm'   

1940  Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious.   

1941  Earle Graser, the eight-year voice of the radio program, "The Lone Ranger", died in an auto accident   

1941  Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title.   

1942  A Schoenberg and Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in NYC.   

1942  Alfred Mombert, writer, dies.   

1943  Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma.   

1943  Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed.   

1945  Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands   

1946  United Nations assemble for inaugural time   

1947  The inaugural illustrated insurance policy was issued by the Allstate Insurance Company   

1947  Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies   

1948  Soen Nakagawa and Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF   

1948  Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40   

1950  Unarmed Navy patrol aircraft shot down over Baltic Sea by USSR   

1950  "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances.   

1950  Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63.   

1951  inaugural of 4 detonations, Operation Greenhouse nuclear test.   

1952  Pres Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike   

1953  Dag Hammarskjoeld chosen as secretary-general of UN.   

1954  "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 270 perfs   

1956  20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke Jr claims, shooting a 289   

1957  Frank Chester, cricketer (distinguished 1-armed Engl Test ump), dies   

1959  Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies   

1960  Neth and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties   

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