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April 8: What is one significant event that happened Today in History?

Find an interesting, obscure and/or important event that happened today in history. Bonus points if you can provide links to historical articles and videos. Please only post 1 event.

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April 8, 1986: Clint Eastwood was elected as a mayor of Californian town of Carmel by landslide
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April 8th, 1904 -

Longacre Square was renamed Times Square by Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. at the urging of Adolph Ochs, owner and publisher of the New York Times, its namesake.

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mac5150 | 3 years, 1 month ago
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1994 - Kurt Cobain was found dead at age 27. He died of a self inflicted gunshot wound 3 days prior.

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mrnemo | 3 years, 1 month ago Report

Hahahah I was going to say this but I thought Mahalo staff would take me down and cuff me! I hope we can get more interest... I haven't clicked on the domain yet. It will probably get me as far as "godhatesvermont.com." Now THAT was a impulse buy.

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haha, I was wondering about all those questions.

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In 1973, artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91.

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On April 8,1998, pop-star George Michael, from the trio Wham! was arrested for "lewd acts" in public.

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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1432157/19980408/michael_george.jhtml

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1943 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.

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