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• Two passengers remain unaccounted for after the Greek cruise ship M/S Sea Diamond (pictured) runs aground off Santorini in the Aegean Sea and sinks.
• The Royal Navy personnel accused of trespassing into Iranian waters return to the United Kingdom after a two-week detention.
• TGV POS trainset number 4402 sets a new world speed record for railed vehicles at 574.8 km/h (357 mph) during test runs conducted in Champagne, France.
• Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the parliament and calls for an early parliamentary election, a move denounced by the parliament as unconstitutional.
• A tsunami triggered by an earthquake strikes the Solomon Islands, killing at least 20, destroying around 900 homes and leaving thousands homeless.

April 8: Easter in Christianity (2007); Hanamatsuri in Japan.

• 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla (bust pictured) was assassinated at a roadside near Harran.
• 1904 - France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale.
• 1904 - Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, a Holy Book in Thelema.
• 1904 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York was renamed Times Square.
• 1929 - Indian independence movement: In response to the British Empire's Defence of India Act which gave more power to the police, Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh with the help of Batukeshwar Dutt bombed the Central Assembly in Delhi.

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