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On This Day In History for April 8, 2026

This is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining in 2026.

It was on this date in 1820, that the Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
April 8, 1959, A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper met to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
That same date in 2002, The Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on mission STS-110, carrying the S0 truss to the International Space Station. Astronaut Jerry L. Ross also became the first person to fly on seven spaceflights.
It was 21 years ago today that a solar eclipse occurred, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
12 years ago today, Windows XP reached its standard End Of Life and is no longer supported.
April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse took place at the Moon’s ascending node, visible across North America.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Italian physician and archaeologist, Michele Mercati, born on this date in 1541.
Born April 8, 1732, American astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse.
Edmund Husserl, the German Jewish-Austrian mathematician and philosopher was born 167 years ago today.
English mountaineer and explorer, Andrew Irvine, born on this date in 1902.
Melvin Calvin, the American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 115 years ago today.
Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer was born on that same date in 1915.
Winifred Asprey, the American mathematician and computer scientist was born 109 years ago today.

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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 8, 2026

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