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Events

• 876 (1150 years ago) The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
• 1139 (887 years ago) Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy.
• 1812 (214 years ago) Czar Alexander I, the Russian Emperor and the Grand Duke of Finland, officially announces the transfer of the status of the Finnish capital from Turku to Helsinki.
• 1866 (160 years ago) Austro-Prussian War: Italy and Prussia sign a secret alliance against the Austrian Empire.
• 1960 (66 years ago) The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
• 2005 (21 years ago) A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
• 2010 (16 years ago) U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty.
• 2020 (6 years ago) Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee.

Births

• 1605 (421 years ago) Philip IV of Spain,
• 1859 (167 years ago) Edmund Husserl, German Jewish-Austrian mathematician and philosopher (died 1938)
• 1875 (151 years ago) Albert I of Belgium,
• 1892 (134 years ago) Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of United Artists (died 1979)
• 1911 (115 years ago) Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic (died 1995)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Betty Ford, American wife of Gerald Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States (died 2011)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1978)
• 1938 (88 years ago) Kofi Annan, Ghanaian economist and diplomat, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (died 2018)

Deaths

• 217 (1809 years ago) Caracalla, Roman emperor (born 188)
• 1450 (576 years ago) Sejong the Great, Korean king (born 1397)
• 1492 (534 years ago) Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian ruler (born 1449)
• 1931 (95 years ago) Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1881)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1894)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Margaret Thatcher, English politician, first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1925)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Peter Higgs, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)

All 380 events, births and deaths of April 8