April 8th

• 1820

  Venus de Milo statue discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.

• 1879

  Milk sold in glass bottles for the first time.

• 1904

  Longacre Square in NYC renamed Times Square for The New York Times. View Post →

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• 1943

  FDR freezes wages/prices to check inflation during WWII.

• 1983

  David Copperfield performs magic trick making the Statue of Liberty disappear.

• 2019

  600 million birds die annually in US from striking buildings; Chicago worst city.

• 2021

  Discovery of a 3,000-year-old 'golden city' near Luxor announced.

• 1959

  Creation of COBOL, a pioneering modern programming language by Grace Hopper.

• 1953

  Sitting Bull's bones moved from North Dakota to South Dakota.

• 1974

  Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's all-time home run record.

• 2009

  Somali pirates hijack the Maersk Alabama ship.