Talk:April 8

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April 8: Hanamatsuri in Japan 217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla (bust pictured) was assassinated at a roadside near Harran. 1093 – Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire, one of the largest cathedrals in England, was dedicated by Bishop Walkelin. 1341 – Italian scholar and poet Petrarch took the title poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome. 1886 – British Prime Minister William Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons. 1904 – France and the United Kingdom signed the entente cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict. 1904 – British occultist and writer Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, a Holy Book in Thelema. 1929 – Indian independence movement: Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh with the help of Batukeshwar Dutt bombed the Central Assembly in Delhi. More events: April 7 – April 8 – April 9 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 02:18, June 14, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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On 8th April did anything happen anywhere else in the world apart from the USA? It would appear from this listing that not a lot did.

If you know of anything that can be included here, please do so. RickK 23:51, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Any objections to conjecture? 2 Grace Park (BSG Actress) 3 odd edit 4 Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's record in 1974

[edit] Any objections to conjecture?

I just added the proposed April 8, 2005 wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles. Any problems as it has not yet occurred and may not occur? ^demon

• Let's not list future events. Save it for after it happens. :) Kingturtle 00:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Grace Park (BSG Actress)

Grace Park the actress on Battlestar Galactica was born the same day (April 8, 1980) as Katee Sackhoff. This is from an interview with Katee Sackhoff on SciFi Talk. There is another Grace Park (the golfer) born March 6, 1979 and many web sites confuse the two (obviously doing a quick Google).

[edit] odd edit

can someone tell me whats this (1991- a legend is born) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.80.161.133 (talk • contribs).

See Wikipedia:Vandalism. It's been reverted. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:14, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's record in 1974

This event has been added and deleted several times. My reading of WP:DOY (not that it's actually official, but anyway) is that only current sports records belong. Other comments on this? -- Rick Block (talk) 02:58, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I'd say that any sporting record which is historically significant--regardless of whether its been broken since--is eligible for inclusion. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 03:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Have you expressed this opinion at WT:DOY? I think I agree that historically significant sports records should likely be included (e.g. first 4-minute mile, but this would be included under WP:DOY#Human accomplishments/social milestones), but first to break a long-standing record seems dubious. Do we include Ralph Boston's 1960 long jump breaking Jesse Owens's record from 1935? (no) or Mike Powell's current record breaking a long standing record set by Bob Beamon (no). I think the event of "breaking a long standing sports record" is worth considering (where "long standing" probably should be defined as greater than, e.g., 10 years), but we don't have a currently "blessed" guideline about this which mean we don't have any avenue to resolve this other than this talk page. Getting back to Aaron's accomplishment, I"m OK with including it if the general criteria includes "first to break a long-standing (greater than nn years) sports record". -- Rick Block (talk) 04:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Broken records should not be listed. There is too much gray area on historical significance in the realm of sports records. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 14:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC)