This Day in History: April 8th

Here are ten historical events that took place on April 8th, listed in chronological order:

1. 217: Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated by his Praetorian Guard while relieving himself at a roadside near Carrhae in modern-day Turkey.
2. 876: The Battle of Dayr al-‘Aqul takes place between forces of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Saffarid dynasty near modern-day Basra, Iraq.
3. 1665: English physicist Robert Hooke demonstrates the first working model of a reflecting telescope to the Royal Society in London.
4. 1820: The Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue depicting the goddess Aphrodite, is discovered by a farmer named Yorgos Kentrotas on the Aegean island of Milos.
5. 1904: Longacre Square in Manhattan, New York City, is renamed Times Square after The New York Times moves its headquarters to the newly built Times Building.
6. 1952: U.S. President Harry Truman orders the seizure of steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike by steelworkers, leading to a Supreme Court ruling against the seizure in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer.
7. 1974: Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s record and becoming the all-time leader in home runs in Major League Baseball.
8. 1994: Kurt Cobain, lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Nirvana, is found dead in his home in Seattle, Washington, in an apparent suicide.
9. 2013: The European Parliament approves the “backloading” proposal to temporarily reduce the oversupply of carbon allowances in the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).
10. 2018: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party wins a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections, securing his fourth consecutive term in office.

These events represent a diverse range of historical moments spanning various centuries and regions of the world, each contributing to the tapestry of human history on April 8th.

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