WHAT HAPPENED ON 8. APRIL
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Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies. (8. April 1906)

Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School. (8. April 1908)

Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity. (8. April 1911)

The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law. (8. April 1913)

In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators. (8. April 1916)

World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district. (8. April 1918)

Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms. (8. April 1924)

Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. (8. April 1929)

The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law. (8. April 1935)

World War II: Siege of Leningrad – Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad. (8. April 1942)

World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines. (8. April 1942)

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. (8. April 1943)

World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis. (8. April 1945)

Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors. (8. April 1946)

India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact. (8. April 1950)

U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike. (8. April 1952)

Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers. (8. April 1953)

A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people. (8. April 1954)

South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people. (8. April 1954)

A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL. (8. April 1959)