Today is Tuesday, April 8, on 98 of 2025. 267 days remain in the year.
Today in history:
On April 8, 1992, the great Arthur Ashe de Tennis announced at a New York press conference that had AIDS, since he contracted the HIV of a blood transfusion in 1983.
Also on this date:
In 1820, the statue of Venus of Milo, probably dates from the second century BC. C., was discovered by a farmer on the Greek island of Milos.
In 1864, the United States Senate approved, 38-6, the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution by abolishing slavery. (The House of Representatives approved it in January 1865; the amendment was ratified and adopted in December 1865.)
In 1911, an explosion in the Banner coal mine in Littleton, Alabama, the lives of 128 men, most of them convicted of prisons were collected.
In 1913, the 17th amendment to the Constitution was ratified, providing the election of US senators by state residents instead of state legislatures.
In 1962, Cuba announced that 1,200 Cuban exiles tried for their roles in the failed invasion of pig bay were sentenced for betrayal and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
In 1974, Hank Aaron de los Bravas de Atlanta reached its 715 race home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking the records of Babe Ruth home runs that had been maintained since 1935.
In 1990, Ryan White, the adolescent whose battle against AIDS attracted national attention and led to greater understanding and stigmatization of those who suffered the disease, died in Indianapolis at age 18.
In 2010, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the new Nuclear Weapons Reduction Treaty in Prague.
In 2020, a 76-day closure was lifted in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the Global Covid-19 Pandemics advanced.
Today’s birthday:
- Journalist Seymour Hersh is 88 years old.
- Composer producer Leon Huff is 83.
- Rock musician Steve Howe (yes) is 78.
- The sports speaker Jim Lampley is 76.
- Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, is 70 years old.
- Author Barbara Kingsolver is 70 years old.
- Actor John Schneider is 65 years old.
- The guitarist Izzy Stradlin (Guns N ‘Roses) is 63.
- Singer Julian Lennon is 62 years old.
- Actor Dean Norris is 62 years old.
- Actor Robin Wright is 59 years old.
- Actor Patricia Arquette is 57 years old.
- Actor Taylor Kitsch is 44.
- Boxer Gennady Golovkin is 43.
- The open receiver of the NFL CEEDEE Lamb has 26.
- Actor Skai Jackson is 23 years old.
