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April 8: National Empanada Day: -- Even
if you've never tried empanadas, there's a good chance you've had
one of their distant (and delicious) cousins. Originally from
Galicia, Spain, empanadas now exist in over 30 countries in some
shape or form. The name comes from "empanar", which
means "to bread" in Spanish and Portuguese. But some
historians argue that the true meaning is "Can I have
another?" That might not be a historical fact, but we can
keep the spirit alive when National Empanada Day comes rolling in!
An empanada is a type of fried or baked pastry with Spanish
origins. The name is derived from the Spanish term 'empanar,'
which literally translates to 'enbreaded,' meaning coated in
bread. The dough or bread used for making empanadas is stuffed
with tasty fillings of meat, vegetables, and in some cultures,
fruit. The dish is also popular in Latin American and southern
European countries. The exact origins of empanadas are linked to
Portugal and Galicia (Spain.) The pastry made its first appearance
during the Moorish invasions in Medieval Iberia. In 1520, a
cookbook featuring Catalan, Arabian, French, and Italian food had
seafood-filled empanadas listed as one of its recipes. It is
widely believed that empanadas and its similar cousin, the
calzone, are both inspired by samosas - a triangular-shaped pie
popular in Arab and South Asian cultures. In Portugal and Spain,
empanadas are prepared by cutting a large pie into pieces, so that
it can be enjoyed on the go. Portuguese and Galician empanada
fillings include sardines, tuna, other types of seafood, and
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April 8: National Zoo Lovers Day: -- A
yearly bringing together of all zoo animal enthusiasts to
celebrate a significant day! Do you know how many animals were
saved by zoos from going extinct? Yes, zoos are more than just
conservation sites for endangered species, they also provide
educational, research, and entertainment purposes. We can trace
the history of zoos back to 4000 B.C. If you love animals, then
this holiday is just for you. Visit a zoo nearby to find out about
your favorite animals; you can also ask to volunteer at a zoo! In
the 7th century B.C, the Greeks had the habit of caging animals.
'Alexander the Great' sent many animals caught on his military
expeditions to Greece. The earlier Egyptian and Asian zoos were
kept mainly for public visitors and secondarily used for research
purposes. During the 4th century B.C., the Greeks were more
concerned with the research and experiment of captivated animals.
The Romans had two different animal collections for arena and
research objectives. After the Roman Empire, zoos faced a
downfall, but some private collections existed by Emperor
Charlemagne in the eighth century and Henry I in the 12th century.
King Philip VI had a menagerie in the Louvre, Paris, in 1333. Many
members of the house of Bourbon had animal collections at
Versailles. Later in 1519, a zoo was discovered in Mexico, which
habituated birds, mammals, and reptiles. It was maintained by 300
zookeepers. In 1752, the Imperial Menagerie was founded at the
Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna as the first modern-day zoo. In 1828,
two years after the Zoological Society of London was founded, the
collection was created in Regent's Park. By the mid 19th century,
zoos were established worldwide. Among the existing zoos of today,
more than 40 zoos are 100 years old. Most of these old zoos are in
Europe. Since the end of World War II, there has been a fast and
worldwide growth of zoos, many of which serve the purpose of
public entertainment and economic gain rather than animal
research. The exact number of public animal collections across the
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April 8: International Pageant Day: --
Celebrated every year since 2018, this day recognizes the
dedication of all the women around the world who compete in
pageants. It's also a day to encourage young women to consider
joining pageants for their numerous benefits. This day also helps
us recognize the importance of pageants as a place where
contestants can showcase not just their beauty but also their
personality, their strengths, and their intelligence. Whoever
thinks beauty and brains do not mix has clearly never been to a
pageant. Before he established the Barnum and Bailey Circus in
1871, Phineas Taylor Barnum staged the first modern American
pageant in 1854. Unfortunately, the prizes of a dowry or a tiara
weren't enough to lure Victorian women to display themselves in
public. Instead, he used photographs that were displayed in his
museum to vote on. It was short-lived, but it was a way that
modern technology and commercial entertainment could be combined
to kickstart the industry of beauty pageants. In 1888, a Creole
contestant was awarded the title of 'beauty queen' in Belgium,
using a similar entry of a photograph with a short description of
themselves as a part of a final selection for a panel of judges.
Beauty pageants were only considered respectable after the first
Miss America came about in 1921. Organized as a means to entice
tourists to Atlantic City, New Jersey, it's the oldest pageant
still in existence that featured women aged between 17 and 25
competing in bathing suits. In the early 1920s, Galveston, Texas
also organized the Galveston Bathing Girl Revue to kick off the
summer tourist season and featured contestants from the U.S. In
1926, it evolved into the International Pageant of Pulchritude
with participants coming from various countries like Mexico,
Canada, England, Russia, and Turkey. This was later believed to be
the inspiration for modern beauty pageants, like Miss Universe.
The enduring popularity of the Miss America pageant prompted other
organizations to establish other pageants like the Miss World in
1951, Miss United States and Miss Universe in 1952, Miss
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April 8: #BOTD: #HBD! Buddha's Birthday:
Among Buddhists, celebrated as the day Prince Siddhartha Gautama,
later known as the Gautama Buddha and founder of Buddhism (563-483
B.C.) was #born. It is a holiday traditionally celebrated
throughout all of East Asia. According to the Theravada Tripitaka
("Three Baskets") scriptures, Gautama was born in
Lumbini in modern-day Nepal, in the year 623 B.C., according to
the Tibetan Account, and raised in Kapilavastu. At the age of
thirty five, he attained enlightenment (nirvana) underneath a
Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya (modern day India). He delivered his first
sermon at Sarnath, India. At the age of eighty, He died at
Kushinagar, India. The exact date of Buddha's Birthday is based on
the Asian lunisolar calendars. The date for the celebration of
Buddha's Birthday varies from year to year in the Western
Gregorian calendar, but usually falls in April or May. In leap
years it may be celebrated in June. As a result of the Meiji
Restoration, Japan adopted the Gregorian calendar in lieu of the
Chinese lunar calendar in 1873. Therefore, in most Japanese
temples, Buddha's birth is celebrated on the Gregorian calendar
date April 8, and is known as Hana Matsuri ("Flower
Festival"); only a few (mainly in Okinawa) celebrate it on
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April 8: International Feng Shui
Awareness Day: -- An annual observance of the traditional ancient
Chinese practice that uses energy to harmonize people with their
environment. Many people in Asia and the West believe in feng
shui, and consult specialists hoping to improve their wealth,
life, happiness, and family. Some will even turn to feng shui when
building a house or making an important purchase. But what is feng
shui exactly, and how does it work? International Feng Shui
Awareness Day exists to help people understand this better. It's
hard to say when feng shui originated, and there's a lot of debate
about it. Before the Chinese invented the compass as a tool for
divination, feng shui was used in astronomy to try to find
correlations between humans and the rest of the universe.
According to the Yangshao and Hongshan cultures, the earliest
known evidence of the use of feng shui was in 4000 B.C., as the
doors of the houses in Banpo were aligned with the asterism
'Yingshi,' after the winter solstice, which made it possible for
the houses to absorb heat through solar gain. Also, a grave at
Puyang from around the same age that contains mosaics of a Chinese
star map is oriented along a north-south axis; plus, the presence
of both square and round shapes in the grave and Hongshan sites
seem to suggest that the gaitian cosmography existed here before
appearing in the Zhoubi Suanjing text. The oldest instruments used
for feng shui were liuren astrolabes (also known as 'shi'),
two-sided boards with astronomical sightlines that were used to
determine the position and altitude of the stars, and for
divination. The earliest shi were found inside tombs that date
between 278 B.C. and 209 B.C. The markings on them are nearly
identical to those found in the first magnetic compasses. The
magnetic compass was first invented as early as the Han Dynasty
and Tang Dynasty, around 206 B.C. The traditional feng shui
compass still used to this day is known as the 'luopan,' though
even a common modern compass can be used as long as you understand
the differences. The needle points at the south magnetic pole, not
the geographical one, and a practitioner uses it to determine the
precise direction of a structure, place, or item, and it contains
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April 8: International Romani Day: -- An
annual observance that honors the first major international
meeting of Romani delegates which was held in April 1971 in
Chelsfield near London. This international cultural awareness day
celebrates Roma's culture and history, art, and valuable
contributions of Roma to our societies. It's also a day to
acknowledge and highlight the different challenges facing the
Romani population - one of the largest minority groups in Europe
today. Even in modern times, the Romani people still battle
systemic discrimination, poverty, and social exclusion. Today,
International Romani Day is recognized by all European and
international organizations and institutions. International Romani
Day traces its origin to the first major international meeting of
Roma representatives, which was held from April 7 to 12 1971, in
Chelsfield near London, United Kingdom. Twenty-three
representatives from nine different nations attended the maiden
edition of the World Romani Congress. However, April 8 was not
officially declared as the International Day of the Roma until
1990 during the fourth World Romani Congress, which was held in
Serock, Poland. The 1990 World Romani Congress of the
International Romani Union (I.R.U.) had 250 delegates in
attendance and they discussed issues such as education, public
relations, language, and WWII reparations. The Roma were
originally itinerant court musicians who originated from South
Asia - parts of present-day India and Pakistan. Though they are
travelers who adapt to the cultures of their host communities, the
Romani have their own cultural language, and distinct genetic
makeup. The Roma migrated to Turkey, France, and Spain during the
Middle Ages. When they arrived in Spain, the Romani culture mixed
with Iberian, Jewish, Muslim, and Moorish cultures, and the people
became known as Flamenco. The Roma remains one of the most
oppressed populations in the world, having been victims of
extinction schemes in Nazi Germany and different Communist
governments in Asia. In the early 1800s, a large number of Romani
also migrated into many American nations such as the U.S., Brazil,
and Canada. To date, there are an estimated one million Roma in
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April 8: Mary Pickford's Birthday: --
April 8, 1892: #BOTD: #HBD! Mary Pickford, Canadian-born film
actress, producer and studio executive (d. May 29, 1979) is #born
Gladys Marie Smith at 211 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. Mary Pickford was a co-founder of both the
Pickford-Fairbanks Studio (along with Douglas Fairbanks) and,
later, the United Artists film studio (with Fairbanks, Charlie
Chaplin and D.W. Griffith), and one of the original 36 founders of
the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences who present the
yearly "Oscar" award ceremony. Pickford was known in her
prime as "America's Sweetheart", "the girl with the
curls" and "That Biograph Girl", and was for a time
during the silent film era the most famous woman in the world. She
was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a
significant figure in the development of film acting. Pickford was
one of the earliest stars to be billed under her own name, and on
June 24, 1916 she become the first female film star to sign a
million-dollar contract. She was one of the most popular actresses
of the 1910s and 1920s, earning the nickname "Queen of the
Movies". She is credited as having defined the ingenue
archetype in cinema. She was awarded the second ever Academy Award
for Best Actress for her first sound-film role in Coquette (1929)
and also received an honorary Academy Award in 1976. In
consideration of her contributions to American cinema, the
American Film Institute ranked Pickford as 24th in its 1999 list
of greatest female stars of classic Hollywood Cinema. Mary
Pickford died at a Santa Monica, California, hospital of
complications from a cerebral hemorrhage she had suffered the week
before. She is interred in the Garden Of Memory of the Forest Lawn
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April 8, 1336: #BOTD: Timur (Tamerlane),
Turco-Mongol conqueror who referred to himself as "The Sword
Of Islam", founder of the Timurid Empire in and around
modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first
ruler of the Timurid Dynasty, an undefeated commander widely
regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in
history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly, also
paradoxically but certainly considered a great patron of art and
architecture, as he interacted with intellectuals such as Ibn
Khaldun, Hafez, and Hafiz-i Abru and his reign introduced the
Timurid Renaissance (the Turkic Renaissance), a period in Asian
and Islamic history spanning the late 14th, the 15th, and the
early 16th centuries (d. February 17, 1405) is #born near Kesh
into the Turkicized Barlas confederation in Transoxiana (in
modern-day Uzbekistan), Chagatai Khanate (Chagatai Ulus), a Mongol
and later Turkicized khanate ruled by Chagatai Khan, second son of
Genghis Khan. Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate
by 1370. From that base, he led military campaigns across Western,
South, and Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Southern Russia,
defeating in the process the Khans of the Golden Horde, the
Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire, as well
as the late Delhi Sultanate of India, becoming the most powerful
ruler in the Muslim world. From these conquests, he founded the
Timurid Empire, which fragmented shortly after his death. The
Timurid Empire was culturally hybrid, combining Turko-Mongolian
and Persianate influences, with the last members of the dynasty
being "regarded as ideal Perso-Islamic rulers". The
empire was founded by Timur, also spelled Temur, historically
known as Amir Timur and Tamerlane (Persian: Temur Lang, "Timur
the Lame"), the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An
undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest
military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the
most brutal and deadly. Following the gradual downturn of the
Islamic Golden Age, the Timurid Empir witnessed the revival of
arts and sciences, and its movement spread across the Muslim
world. The French word renaissance means "rebirth", and
defines a period as one of cultural revival; the use of the term
for the description of this period has raised reservations among
scholars, some of whom see it as the swan song of Timurid culture.
The Turco-Mongol or Turko-Mongol tradition was a cultural
synthesis that arose during the early 14th century, among the
ruling elites of Mongol Empire successor states such as the
Chagatai Khanate and Golden Horde. These elites adopted Turkic
languages and different religions such as Buddhism and Islam,
while retaining Mongol political and legal institutions. Many
later Central Asian states drew heavily on this tradition,
including the Timurid Empire, the Kazakh Khanate, the Khanate of
Kazan, the Nogai Khanate, the Crimean Khanate, and the Mughal
Empire of India. Timur spoke several languages, including
Chagatai, an ancestor of modern Uzbek, as well as Mongolic and
Persian, in which he wrote diplomatic correspondence. Timur was
the last of the great nomadic conquerors of the Eurasian Steppe,
and his empire set the stage for the rise of the more structured
and lasting Islamic gunpowder empires in the 16th and 17th
centuries. Timur was of both Turkic and Mongol descent, and, while
probably not a direct descendant on either side, he shared a
common ancestor with Genghis Khan on his father's side, though
some authors have suggested his mother may have been a descendant
of the Khan. He clearly sought to invoke the legacy of Genghis
Khan's conquests during his lifetime. Timur envisioned the
restoration of the Mongol Empire and according to Gerard Chaliand,
saw himself as Genghis Khan's heir. To legitimize his conquests,
Timur relied on Islamic symbols and language,. He was a patron of
educational and religious institutions. He styled himself as a
ghazi in the last years of his life. By the end of his reign,
Timur had gained complete control over all the remnants of the
Chagatai Khanate, the Ilkhanate, and the Golden Horde, and had
even attempted to restore the Yuan dynasty in China. Timur's
armies were inclusively multi-ethnic and were feared throughout
Asia, Africa, and Europe, sizable parts of which his campaigns
laid waste. Scholars estimate that his military campaigns caused
the deaths of millions of people. Of all the areas he conquered,
Khwarazm suffered the most from his expeditions, as it rose
several times against him. Timur's campaigns have been
characterized as genocidal. He was the grandfather of the Timurid
sultan, astronomer and mathematician Ulugh Beg, who ruled Central
Asia from 1411 to 1449, and the great-great-great-grandfather of
Babur (1483-1530), founder of the Mughal Empire. Though Timur
preferred to fight his battles in the spring, he died en route
during an uncharacteristic winter campaign. In December 1404,
Timur began military campaigns against Ming China and detained a
Ming envoy. He became ill while encamped on the farther side of
the Syr Daria river and died at Farab, a Central Asian city
located along the Silk Road in Kazakhstan, before ever reaching
the Chinese border. After his death, the Ming envoys, such as Fu
An and the remaining entourage, were released by Timur's grandson
Khalil Sultan. Timur's body was embalmed with musk and rose water,
wrapped in linen, laid in an ebony coffin and sent to Samarkand,
where it was buried. His tomb, the Gur-E-Amir mausoleum, still
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April 8, 1895: #BOTD: #HBD! Bert Gordon,
American comedian known as "The Mad Russian" and voice
actor who appeared in vaudeville, radio, and in film (d. November
30, 1974) is #born Barney Gorodetsky in Manhattan, New York. Bert
Gordon appeared in many roles over his lengthy career. As "The
Mad Russian", he was a regular on The Eddie Cantor Program,
and also appeared on The Jack Benny Program, and The Abbott and
Costello Program. In 1945 he starred in his own film vehicle, How
Doooo You Do!!!, directed by Ralph Murphy; the film takes its
title from Gordon's distinctive way of introducing himself, which
became a catch phrase in the early 1940s. After 1942, Bert Gordon
was no longer referred to on the Eddie Cantor Show as The Mad
Russian, but as "Our Russian Friend," this presumably so
as not to give offense to Stalin, the Russians having recently
switched alliance so as to be on the side of the Allies. Following
the defeat of Germany in the spring of 1945, and Russia then being
at odds with the United States, Bert Gordon was dropped from the
show entirely. Gordon played himself in an episode of The Dick Van
Dyke Show in 1964 along with several other radio-era performers.
Bert Gordon died of cancer at his home in Duarte, California at
the age of 79. He is buried at Eden Memorial Park in Los Angeles,
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April 8, 1904: New York City (New York,
NYC): The History Of New York City: The City Of Greater New York:
Skyscrapers: Early Skyscrapers: Tallest Buildings In New York
City: One Times Square (1475 Broadway, The New York Times
Building, The New York Times Tower, The Allied Chemical, The Times
Tower): -- Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times
Square, after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the
then newly erected Times Building - now One Times Square - the
site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop which began on
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April 8, 1918: World War I: The Home
Front During World War I: The United States Home Front During
World War I: War Bonds (Victory Bonds): Liberty Bonds (Liberty
Loans): The Third Liberty Loan (The 3rd Liberty Loan): -- Actors
Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the
streets of New York City's financial district and Union Square to
help cover the war expenses of the United States during the First
World War. The Third Liberty Loan began when The Third Liberty
Loan Act was enacted on April 5, 1918. There were two previous
loan acts, The Liberty Loan Act and The Second Liberty Loan Act,
each providing additional money to the US Government to fund the
war. In effect, the bonds were loans from citizens to the US
Government which would be repaid with interest in the future. The
third act specifically allowed the US government to issue 3B USD
worth of war bonds at a rate of 4.5% interest for up to 10 years
with an individual aggregate limit of 45K USD. The bonds produced
by the Third Liberty Loan Act were not redeemable until September
15, 1928. The Third Liberty Loan Act was an amendment to the
previous two Liberty Loan acts. The first Liberty Loan have been
enacted on April 24, 1917, and issued 5B USD in bonds at a 3.5
percent interest rate. However, this loan was not sufficient to
support the United States presence in the war. The second act was
put into place on October 1, 1917, only a few months after the
first. This time the loan allowed for an additional 3B USD in
bonds at a 4 percent interest rate. The third loan was still
insufficient and a fourth act was created on September 28, 1918,
which allowed for an even higher amount - 6B SUD at 4.25 percent
interest rate. These bonds were sold primarily by the boy and girl
scouts. The most famous of bonds poster depicted a boy scout
handing a sword to Lady Liberty that is suited for battle. The
most famous public bond rally was that of actors Douglas Fairbanks
and Charlie Chaplin selling war bonds in FiDi and Union Square.
The scouts ended up selling 2,328,308 liberty bonds between 1917
and 1918. This totaled 354,859,262 USD that the government owed to
the people of the United States and 43,043,698 USD allocated to
the Allied forces. The expenses covered by these loans included
weaponry, medical and surgical supplies, and vehicles. Though the
liberty loans were to be used only to fund the war they are still
used to this day to fund matters of extreme cost. The most recent
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April 8, 1942: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Philippines
Campaign (1941-1942) (The Battle Of The Philippines, The Fall Of
The Philippines): The Battle Of Bataan (The Fall Of Bataan): --
The Philippine Province of Bataan falls to the Japanese. The
Battle Of Bataan commenced on April 3, 1942, when Japanese forces
began a final assault on the United States and Filipino troops on
the Bataan Peninsula. The Battle Of Bataan (7 January - 9 April
1942) represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's
invasion of the Philippines during World War II. In January 1942,
forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded Luzon along
with several islands in the Philippine Archipelago after the
bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. The
commander-in-chief of all Filipino and U.S. forces in the islands,
General Douglas MacArthur, consolidated all of his Luzon-based
units on the Bataan Peninsula to fight against the Japanese
invaders. By this time, the Japanese controlled nearly all of
Southeast Asia. The Bataan peninsula and the island of Corregidor
were the only remaining Allied strongholds in the region. Despite
a lack of supplies, Filipino and American forces managed to fight
the Japanese for three months, engaging them initially in a
fighting retreat southward. As the combined Filipino and American
forces made a last stand, the delay cost the Japanese valuable
time and prevented immediate victory across the Pacific. The
surrender at Bataan, with 76,000 soldiers surrendering in the
Philippines altogether, was the largest in American and Filipino
military histories, and was the largest United States surrender
since the American Civil War's Battle of Harper's Ferry. Soon
afterwards, Filipino and U.S. prisoners of war were forced into
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Today, April 8, 2026
April 8, 1942: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great
Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): The Siege Of Leningrad
(Russian: Blokada Leningrada; German: Leningrader Blockade;
Finnish: Leningradin Piiritys, Italian: Assedio Di Leningrado;
Spanish: Asedio De Leningrado): -- Soviet forces open a
much-needed railway link to Leningrad, one of the first Soviet
successes in helping to mitigate the worst effects of the siege.
The Siege Of Leningrad (September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944) was
a prolonged military blockade, largely considered a genocide-aimed
blockade targeting its civilian population, undertaken by the
encircling from the south by the German Army Group North, and
Spanish Blue Division and the Finnish Army in the north, against
Leningrad, historically and currently known as Saint Petersburg.
The siege started when the last road to the city was severed.
Although the Soviets managed to open links to Leningrad through
various but temporary means -- including a railway link built on
top of the ice of Lake Ladoga during successive winters, a railway
link on April 8, 1942 narrow land corridor to the city on January
18, 1943 -- the siege was not lifted until January 27 1944, 872
days after it began. The siege is regarded as one of the longest,
most destructive and costliest in casualties in history,
especially by the Soviets. An estimated 1.5 million people died as
a result of the siege. At the time, it was not classified as a war
crime, however, in the 21st century, some historians have
classified it as a genocide, due to the intentional destruction of
the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.
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Today, April 8, 2026
April 8, 1943: World War II: The Home
Front During World War II: The United States Home Front During
World War II: The Executive Orders Of Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Executive Order 9328 (EO 9328): The 1943 Wage-Price Freeze: --
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check
inflation, issues Executive Order 9328, which freezes wages and
salaries (with the exception where there were substandard living
conditions), holds the line on further increases in prices
affecting the cost of living, prohibits workers from changing jobs
unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate
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Today, April 8, 2026
April 8, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! Robert L.
Johnson, African American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive,
philanthropist, and investor, founder of Black Entertainment
Television (BET), is #born in Hickory, Mississippi. Johnson
launched BET in January, 1980, the program aired two hours a week
and was the first cable television network to target African
Americans. Eleven years later BET became the first African
American owned company to be listed on the New York Stock
Exchange. Viacom bought BET for 3B in 1999 and Johnson became the
first African American billionaire until his divorce when his wife
was awarded a substancial amount of his fortune. He earned another
first in 2004 when he became the first African American to be a
principal owner in a major league sports franchise by purchasing
the Charolette Bobcats NBA team. Johnson's companies have counted
among the most prominent black American businesses in the late
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Today, April 8, 2026
April 8, 1949: #DOTD: #RIP: Kathy Fiscus,
who became nationally famous for after falling into a well in San
Marino, California as a three-year-old girl (b. August 21, 1945)
#dies as a result of her fall. Kathy is buried at Glen Abbey
Memorial Park in Bonita, California. The inscription on her marker
reads, "One Little Girl Who United the World for a Moment".
Kathy Fiscus was born Kathryn Anne Fiscus in Los Angeles,
California. The attempted rescue, broadcast live on KTLA, was a
landmark event in American television history. On the afternoon of
April 8, 1949, Kathy was playing with her nine-year-old sister,
Barbara, and cousin, Gus, in a field in San Marino when she fell
down the 14-inch-wide (360 mm) shaft of an abandoned water well.
Her father, David, worked for the California Water and Telephone
Co., which had drilled the well in 1903. He had recently testified
before the state legislature for a proposed law that would require
the cementing of all old wells. Within hours, a major rescue
effort was underway with drills, derricks, bulldozers, and trucks
from a dozen towns, three giant cranes, and 50 floodlights from
Hollywood studios. At one point a rope was lowered to her but she
could not maintain her hold on it and fell even further down the
well. After digging down 100 feet, workers reached Kathy on Sunday
(April 10) night. It was immediately apparent that Kathy was dead.
It was impossible to move her because of the position of her legs.
A rope was lowered from the top of the well and tied around her to
gently pull her into a different posture from which Dr. Robert
McCullock, one of the Fiscus family physicians, working from the
lateral shaft, was able to free her. Contractor Bill Yancey
brought her to the surface. Kathy's family was informed
immediately. Over an hour later Dr. Paul Hanson made this
statement to the more than 10,000 people who had gathered to watch
the rescue: "Kathy is dead and apparently has been dead since
she was last heard speaking on Friday. Her family has been
notified and we are now notifying you. Dr. McCullock has
pronounced Kathy dead and is assisting in the removal of the body.
For the sake of the family who have held up so gallantly through
this ordeal - and for all the people who have aided so
magnificently, we ask you please to leave the scene of the
accident as a courtesy to them. If this had been your child, we
are sure you would not want a crowd remaining at the scene of the
tragedy." He then read a message from her family: "There
is nothing we can say to fully thank the many people who have
helped us so selflessly. Many of these people have gone home to
much-needed rest. Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to them for the
many sacrifices beyond belief. Thank you very much." It was
determined that she died shortly after the second fall, from a
lack of oxygen. The failed rescue attempt received nationwide
attention in the US as it was carried live on radio and on
television - a still-new medium - by station KTLA and their
reporter Stan Chambers at the beginning of his career. It is
regarded as a watershed event in live TV coverage. Stan Chambers
devoted two chapters to it in his book KTLA's News at 10 and added
"Historians in 1994 agree that the Kathy Fiscus telecast
marked the beginning of the long form of television news
coverage." Kathy's story was recalled nearly 40 years later
during the successful 1987 rescue of Jessica McClure. The location
of the well is on the upper field of San Marino High School and is
unmarked except for a cap covering the opening. Country singer
Jimmie Osborne wrote and recorded the 1949 song "The Death of
Little Kathy Fiscus" (King 788). It sold over one million
copies and Osborne donated half the proceeds to the Fiscus family.
Other artists recorded versions of the song, including Kitty Wells
and Howard Vokes. Woody Allen fictionalized Kathy's tragedy in his
1987 film Radio Days. In it a little girl named Polly Phelps falls
into a well near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. It becomes a big
national story and, like Kathy, she does not survive. The Well
(1951), Billy Wilder's 1951 film Ace in the Hole, and the 1959
Jack Webb film -30- were also partially inspired by the event. In
Rumer Godden's 1969 novel In This House of Brede, a highly placed
British government administrator takes the veil in an enclosed
house of Benedictines after the death of her son in a similar
incident. An episode of Irwin Allen's series Land of the Giants,
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Today, April 8, 2026
April 8, 1952: The Korean War: Korea: The
History Of Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The
Korean Conflict: The Korean War: The United States Home Front
During The Korean War: Labor Union Disputes (Trade Union
Disputes): Strikes (Strike Actions, Labor Strikes, Labour
Strikes): The 1952 Steel Strike: -- President Harry S. Truman
seizes control of America's steel mills in an attempt to prevent
the 1952 Steel Strike called by the United Steelworkers Of America
against U.S. Steel and nine other steelmakers. The strike was
scheduled to begin on April 9, 1952, but President Harry S Truman
nationalized the American steel industry hours before the workers
walked out, citing Executive Order 10161, which established the
Economic Stabilization Agency (ESA) to coordinate and supervise
wage and price controls in order to successfully conduct the
Korean War. The steel companies sued to regain control of their
facilities. However, on April 29th, the seizure was ruled
unconstitutional by a U.S. District Court., and on June 2, 1952,
in a landmark decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled in
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952), that
the president lacked the authority to seize the steel mills. The
Steelworkers struck to win a wage increase. The strike lasted 53
days, and ended on July 24, 1952, when they received a 16-cents
per-hour wage increase and additional benefits, essentially the
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Today, April 8, 2026
April 8, 1959: The History Of The
Computer: The History Of Computer Programming: The History Of
Business Computer Programming: Programming Languages: The
Conference/Committee On Data Systems Languages (CODASYL): The
Common Ordinary Business-Oriented Language (COBOL): -- At a formal
meeting at the University of Pennsylvania of computer
manufacturers, users, and university people, called by Mary K.
Hawes, a computer scientist at Burroughs Corporation, to form a
consortium formed to guide the development of a standard
programming language that could be used on many computers, the
first discussion begins on the creation of a new programming
language, a common business language that would be ultimately be
called The Common Ordinary Business-Oriented Language (COBOL). The
effort was led by computer scientist and United States Navy rear
admiral Grace Hopper (inventor of the English-like data processing
language FLOW-MATIC) and included Ms. Jean Sammet (computer
scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962)
and Saul Gorn (pioneer in computer and information science who
worked on the early ENIAC and EDVAC computers). At that meeting,
the group asked the Department of Defense (DoD) to sponsor this
effort to create a common business language. The delegation
impressed Charles A. Phillips, director of the Data System
Research Staff at the DoD, who thought that they "thoroughly
understood" the DoD's problems. The DoD operated 225
computers, had a further 175 on order and had spent over 200M USD
on implementing programs to run on them. Portable programs would
save time, reduce costs and ease modernization. Charles A.
Phillips agreed to sponsor the meeting and tasked the delegation
with drafting the agenda. The resulting COBOL (acronym for
"CO-mmon B-usiness-O-riented L-anguage") is a compiled
English-like computer programming language designed for business
use. It is an imperative, procedural and, since 2002,
object-oriented language. COBOL is primarily used in business,
finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
COBOL is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe
computers, such as large-scale batch and transaction processing
jobs. However, due to its declining popularity and the retirement
of experienced COBOL programmers, programs are being migrated to
new platforms, rewritten in modern languages or replaced with
software packages. Most programming in COBOL is now purely to
maintain existing applications; however, many large financial
institutions were still developing new systems in COBOL as late as
2006. COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based
on the programming language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper.
It was created as part of a US Department of Defense effort to
create a portable programming language for data processing. It was
originally seen as a stopgap, but the Department of Defense
promptly forced computer manufacturers to provide it, resulting in
its widespread adoption. It was standardized in 1968 and has since
been revised four times. Expansions include support for structured
and object-oriented programming. The current standard is ISO/IEC
1989:2014. COBOL statements have an English-like syntax, which was
designed to be self-documenting and highly readable. However, it
is verbose and uses over 300 reserved words. In contrast with
modern, succinct syntax like y = x;, COBOL has a more English-like
syntax (in this case, MOVE x TO y). COBOL code is split into four
divisions (identification, environment, data, and procedure)
containing a rigid hierarchy of sections, paragraphs and
sentences. Lacking a large standard library, the standard
specifies 43 statements, 87 functions and just one class. Academic
computer scientists were generally uninterested in business
applications when COBOL was created and were not involved in its
design; it was (effectively) designed from the ground up as a
computer language for business, with an emphasis on inputs and
outputs, whose only data types were numbers and strings of text.
COBOL has been criticized throughout its life for its verbosity,
design process, and poor support for structured programming. These
weaknesses result in monolithic, verbose (intended to be
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Today, April 8, 2026
April 8, 1960: The American Civil Rights
Movement: Civil Rights Organizations: African American Civil
Rights Organizations: The Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC): -- At a conference at Shaw University in
Raleigh, North Carolina The Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) is founded, a conference attended by 126 student
delegates from 58 sit-in centers in 12 states, from 19 northern
colleges, and from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC), the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE), the Fellowship of
Reconciliation (FOR), the National Student Association (NSA), and
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Among those attending who
were to emerge as strategists for the committee and its field
projects were Fisk University student Diane Nash, Tennessee State
student Marion Barry, and American Baptist Theological Seminary
students James Bevel, John Lewis, and Bernard Lafayette, all
involved in the Nashville Student Movement; their mentor at
Vanderbilt University, James Lawson; Charles F. McDew, who led
student protests at South Carolina State University; J. Charles
Jones, Johnson C. Smith University, who organized 200 students to
participate in sit-ins at whites-only department stores and
service counters throughout Charlotte, North Carolina; Julian Bond
from Morehouse College, Atlanta; and Stokely Carmichael from
Howard University, Washington, D.C.. The invitation had been
issued by Martin Luther King Jr. on behalf of the SCLC, but the
conference had been organized by then SCLC director Ella Baker.
Baker was a critic of what she perceived as King's top-down
leadership at the SCLC. "Strong people don't need strong
leaders," she told the young activists. Speaking to the
students' own experience of protest organization, it was Baker's
vision that appeared to prevail. SNCC did not constitute itself as
the youth wing of SCLC. It steered an independent course that
sought to channel the students' program through the organizers out
in the field rather than through its national office in Atlanta
("small and rather dingy," located above a beauty parlor
near the city's five Black colleges). Under the constitution
adopted, the SNCC comprised representatives from each of the
affiliated "local protest groups," and these groups (and
not the committee and its support staff) were to be recognized as
"the primary expression of a protest in a given area."
Under the same general principle, that "the people who do the
work should make the decisions", the students committed to a
"participatory democracy" which, avoiding office
hierarchy, sought to reach decisions by consensus. Group meetings
were convened in which every participant could speak for as long
as they wanted and the meeting would continue until everyone who
was left was in agreement with the decision. Given the physical
risks involved in many activities in which SNCC was to engage this
was thought particularly important: "no one felt comfortable
making a decision by majority rule that might cost somebody else's
life." Initially the SNCC continued the focus on sit-ins and
boycotts targeting establishments (restaurants, retail stores,
theaters) and public amenities maintaining whites-only or
segregated facilities. But it was to adopt a new tactic that
helped galvanize the movement nationally. In February 1961, Diane
Nash, Ruby Doris Smith, Charles Sherrod, and J. Charles Jones
joined the Rock Hill, South Carolina sit-in protests and followed
the example of the Friendship Nine in enduring an extended jail
time rather than post bail. The "Jail-no-Bail" stand was
seen as a moral refusal to accept, and to effectively subsidize, a
corrupted constitution-defiant police and judicial system - while
at the same time saving the movement money it did not have. As way
to "dramatize that the church, the house of all people,
fosters segregation more than any other institution," SNCC
students also participated in "kneel-ins" - kneeling in
prayer outside of Whites-only churches. Presbyterians churches,
targeted because their "ministers lacked the protection and
support of a church hierarchy," were not long indifferent. In
August 1960, the 172nd General Assembly of the United Presbyterian
Church wrote to SNCC: "Laws and customs requiring racial
discrimination are, in our judgement, such serious violations of
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Today, April 8, 2026
April 8, 1992: Infectious Diseases: Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
(AIDS)(HIV/AIDS): -- Arthur Ashe (July 10, 1943 - February 6,
1993), African American professional tennis player who won three
Grand Slam singles titles, who became the first black man to win
the Wimbledon singles title on July 5, 1975, announces that he has
AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart
surgeries. HIV is a retrovirus (a type of virus that inserts a DNA
copy of its RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell that it
invades, thus changing the genome of that cell) that attacks the
immune system. It can be managed with treatment. Without treatment
it can lead to a spectrum of conditions including AIDS. Effective
treatment for HIV-positive people (people living with HIV)
involves a life-long regimen of medicine to suppress the virus,
making the viral load undetectable. At the time Arthur Ashe
contracted the disease, there was as yet no effective treatment.
Arthur Ashe was born Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. in Richmond, Virginia.
He started to play tennis at six years old. He was the first black
player selected to the United States Davis Cup team, and remains
the only Black man to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US
Open, or Australian Open. He is one of only two men of black
African ancestry to win any Grand Slam singles title, the other
being France's Yannick Noah, who won the French Open in 1983. He
also led the United States to victory for three consecutive years
(1968-70) in the Davis Cup. He retired in 1980. He was ranked
world No. 1 by Rex Bellamy, Bud Collins, Judith Elian, Lance
Tingay, World Tennis and Tennis Magazine (U.S.) in 1975. In 1975
Ashe was awarded the 'Martini and Rossi' Award, voted for by a
panel of journalists, and the ATP Player of the Year award. In the
ATP computer rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in May 1976. Ashe is
believed to have contracted HIV from a blood transfusion he
received during heart bypass surgery for congenital heart disease
in 1983. He publicly announced his illness in April 1992 and began
working to educate others about HIV and AIDS. He founded the
Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS and the Arthur Ashe
Institute for Urban Health before his death from AIDS-related
pneumonia at the age of 49 in New York City. Two weeks after his
death, on June 20, 1993, he was posthumously awarded the
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Today, April 8, 2026
April 8: Draw A Bird Day: -- This day is
not about drawing or artistic skills, but about having fun and
sharing drawings of birds. There is no need in being an expert in
drawing to celebrate this day. The key is to spread joy and
pleasure as everyone shares their drawings regardless of how they
look. It is a movement that originated in the U.K. in the 1940s.
You are free to sketch any type of bird. You have the option of
drawing a chicken, chaffinch, peacock penguin, or puffin. You'll
be astonished at how many different kinds of birds there are if
you do an internet search. Draw Bird Day originated in 1943. It is
said that Dorie Cooper - who was 7 years old - visited her uncle
at the hospital in the U.K. Dorie_s uncle was wounded in the war,
having lost his right leg to a land mine. When Dorie came to the
hospital, she asked her uncle to draw a bird to cheer him up and
make him forget what he had been through in the war. After seeing
her uncle's picture, she started laughing and exclaimed that he
was not a good artist. Although the picture of her uncle was not
very good, she decided to hang it in her room. Her uncle's spirits
were lifted by Dorie_s action. She demonstrated being an
empathetic person being only seven years old. Every time Dorie
came to visit her uncle thereafter, other wounded soldiers also
had their day brightened by the event and held drawing contests to
see who could produce the best bird pictures. The entire ward's
walls were decorated with bird drawings within several months.
Three years later Dorie was killed in a car accident and her
coffin was full of bird drawings made by soldiers, nurses, and
doctors from the war. Draw a Bird Day is celebrated to express joy
in the simplest of things in life and as a way to help soldiers to
forget the war at least for a short time. Dorie helped her uncle
to forget the war by something as simple as drawing birds.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1973: #DOTD: #RIP: Pablo
Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage
designer, poet and playwright (b. October 25, 1881) #dies in
Mougins, France, from pulmonary edema and a heart attack, the
morning after he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for
dinner, aged 91. He is interred at the Chateau of Vauvenargues
near Aix-en-Provence, a property he had acquired in 1958 and
occupied with Jacqueline between 1959 and 1962. Jacqueline
prevented his children Claude and Paloma from attending the
funeral. Devastated and lonely after the death of Picasso,
Jacqueline killed herself by gunshot in 1986 when she was 59 years
old. He was born Pablo Ruiz Picasso in the city of Malaga,
Andalusia, in southern Spain. He spent most of his adult life in
France, mainly in the Montparnasse and Montmartre sections of
Paris. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th
century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the
invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage,
and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and
explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic
portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian
airforces. Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune
for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of
the best-known figures in 20th-century art.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: Omar Bradley,
American General Of The Army, first chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Of Staff, senior officer of the United States Army who oversaw the
U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War (b. February 12,
1893) #dies in New York City of a cardiac arrhythmia, a few
minutes after receiving an award from the National Institute of
Social Sciences. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, next
to his two wives. General Bradley served on active duty
continuously from August 1, 1911, until his death on April 8, 1981
- a total of 69 years, 8 months and 7 days. His was the longest
active duty career in the history of the United States Armed
Forces. Omar Nelson Bradley was born in Randolph County, Missouri,
Bradley worked as a boilermaker before entering the United States
Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from the academy in
1915 alongside Dwight D. Eisenhower as part of "the class the
stars fell on." During World War I, Bradley guarded copper
mines in Montana. After the war, Bradley taught at West Point and
served in other roles before taking a position at the War
Department under General George Marshall. In 1941, Bradley became
commander of the United States Army Infantry School. After the
U.S. entrance into World War II, Bradley oversaw the
transformation of the 82nd Infantry Division into the first
American airborne division. He received his first front-line
command in Operation Torch, serving under General George S. Patton
in North Africa. After Patton was reassigned, Bradley commanded II
Corps in the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Sicily.
He commanded the First United States Army during the Invasion of
Normandy. After the breakout from Normandy, he took command of the
Twelfth United States Army Group, which ultimately comprised
forty-three divisions and 1.3 million men, the largest body of
American soldiers ever to serve under a single field commander.
After the war, Bradley headed the Veterans Administration. He was
appointed as Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1948 and
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff in 1949. In 1950, Bradley
was promoted to the rank of General of the Army, becoming the last
of the nine individuals promoted to five-star rank in the United
States Armed Forces. He was the senior military commander at the
start of the Korean War, and supported President Harry S. Truman's
wartime policy of containment. He was instrumental in persuading
Truman to dismiss General Douglas MacArthur in 1951 after
MacArthur resisted administration attempts to scale back the war's
strategic objectives. Bradley left active duty in 1953 (although
remaining on "active retirement" for the next 27 years).
He continued to serve in public and business roles until his death
in 1981 at age 88.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: Chuck McCann,
American stage, film, television, and voice actor, and television
personality (b. September 2, 1934) #dies of congestive heart
failure in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age
of 83. He was cremated and his remains are in Forest Lawn Memorial
Park in Hollywood Hills, California. Chuck McCann was born Charles
John Thomas McCann in Brooklyn, New York. He was known to a
generation of children who grew up watching his children's shows
in the New York City metropolitan area during the 1960s, having
worked his way up to regional star status by apprenticing on a
number of other children's shows, such as Rootie Kazootie (the
show on which he met his one-time puppeteer and sidekick, Paul
Ashley), Captain Kangaroo and Sandy Becker. The best-selling The
First Family, an early '60s LP record album which lampooned the
newly elected President John F. Kennedy and his family, included
McCann among its voices, and he was also included in David Frye's
I Am The President comedy album lampoon of Richard Nixon.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Stewart
Klein, music, film and theatre critic for New York's Channel 5 for
more than 30 years (d. May 10, 1999) is #born in a town whose name
is not publicly known. Stewart Klein won three local Emmy awards
for his work, including one for a review in which he spoke only
Latin for 'Sebastian' (1978) which had been made entirely in
Latin, and one for lifetime achievement. He began his journalism
career as a copy boy for the Philadelphia Enquirer and later as a
columnist and editor for the Philadelphia Daily News. A
Philadelphia native and Temple University graduate, Mr. Klein
began his career in New York in 1961 as a radio reporter in 1961.
. One of his local TV programs was "Off The Set", in
which he interviewed broadcast personalities on their careers.
Klein joined The Fox Five 10 O'Clock News in 1967 and had been
with "Good Day New York" since 1988. Klein was well
remembered for being one of the few television critics to venture
to Off-Broadway and smaller venues. He had the air of a
curmudgeonly math instructor, yet there was always a
tongue-in-cheek humor to even his most glib dismissals. Like most
TV reviewers, Mr. Klein had to squeeze his critiques into a
90-second time slot, while leaving room for a clip from the
production in question. Nevertheless, his reviews were extremely
concise, using the fewest words to convey the most information.
Klein's Channel 5 colleague, Bob O'Brien, credits him with the
original idea of bringing camera crews into Broadway theaters for
clips to show during reviews. O'Brien, a 31-year colleague of Mr.
Klein, told Playbill On-Line his friend's strongest asset was his
sense of humor. "It enriched everything he did," O'Brien
said. "He was not a pompous kind of person. He took his work
seriously but not himself. And he keeps the theater and moviegoing
public from spending their entertainment budget on something not
worth their time and money." Continued O'Brien, "[Mr.
Klein] always gave his own honest opinion of the shows he
reviewed. He told this story on the 25th anniversary of Channel 5
news a few years ago: Some movie producer took him to dinner at Le
Cirque and drove him back in his limo, and then handed him a press
kit, saying `Take a close look at this.' Stew smelled something
fishy, so he ducked into a men's room stall. Inside the press kit
were a hundred crisp hundred dollar bills -- 10,000K USD in cash.
Stew called the guy back and said, ` I really can't accept this.
Please send your driver to pick this up.' The guy replied, `No,
I'll get it myself!'" Added O'Brien, "Stew was honest to
the core. If he liked a show, he would be effusive about it and be
lavish in his praise. If he hated something, that's when his sense
of humor became most deft. He was famous for his one-word reviews:
`Ishtar - Stinkar.' `Feds - Feh!' `Tank - Stank.' When Titanic
opened on Broadway, he stood outside the theater marquee and said,
'Glub glub glub. This one sank even before it hit the iceberg.'"
Concluded O'Brien, "He really loved his work and wanted to
get back to doing what he wanted to do. He was a sweet man.
Everybody who knew him loved him, and he will be very greatly
missed." In 1980, he was cited by the Associate Press for the
year's best coverage of a breaking story -- the death of 42nd
Street director Gower Champion. His last broadcast was in February
1999. He had four children, including three by his first wife.
Stewart Klein died of colon cancer, aged 66. On May 12, 1999, a
memorial was held at Frank A. Patti & Kenneth Mikatarian
Funeral Home, 327 Main Street in Fort Lee, NJ. His funeral was
held the following day at 10 AM at George Washington Memorial Park
Cemetery in Paramus, NJ. Colleague O'Brien told Playbill On-Line
that Mr. Klein "always said his favorite funeral was that of
Jule Styne, where everybody came around and roasted him with funny
stories. So that's what we're going to do at the 7-9 service."
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1945: The European Civil War:
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before the unconditional surrender of Germany, transports from
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Launch Complex 19 (LC-19). It was purposely destroyed during a
purposely uncontrolled reentry; though a heat shield was
installed, four large holes were drilled in it to ensure its
destruction. Gemini 1 was the first unmanned test flight of the
Gemini spacecraft in NASA's Gemini program. Its main objectives
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manned missions. The spacecraft stayed attached to the second
stage of the rocket. The mission lasted for three orbits while
test data were taken, but the spacecraft stayed in orbit for
almost 64 orbits until the orbit decayed due to atmospheric drag.
The spacecraft was not intended to be recovered; in fact, holes
were drilled through its heat shield to ensure it would not
survive re-entry. Project Gemini was NASA's second human
spaceflight program. Conducted between projects Mercury and
Apollo, Gemini started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. The Gemini
spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew. Ten Gemini crews flew low
Earth orbit (LEO) missions during 1965 and 1966, putting the
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1950: #DOTD: #RIP: Vaslav
Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the
greatest male dancer of the early 20th century (b. March 12,
1889/1890) #dies from kidney failure at a clinic in London,
England, aged 60 or 61. He was buried in London; then in 1953, his
body was moved to Montmartre Cemetery in Paris and reinterred
beside the graves of Gaetan Vestris, Theophile Gautier, and Emma
Livry. Born Vaslav (or Vatslav) Nijinsky in Kiev to Polish
parents, Nijinsky grew up in Imperial Russia, but considered
himself to be Polish. He was celebrated for his virtuosity and for
the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could dance
en pointe, a rare skill among male dancers at the time and was
admired for his seemingly gravity-defying leaps. At age nine
Nijinsky was accepted at the Imperial Ballet School (now known as
the Mariinsky School) in St. Petersburg, the pre-eminent ballet
school in the world. In 1907, he graduated and became a member of
the Imperial Ballet, starting at the rank of coryphee instead of
in the corps de ballet, already taking starring roles. In 1909 he
joined the Ballets Russes, a new ballet company started by Sergei
Diaghilev. The impresario took the Russian Ballets to Paris, where
high-quality productions such as those of the Imperial Ballet were
not known. Nijinsky became the company's star male dancer, causing
an enormous stir amongst audiences whenever he performed. In
ordinary life he appeared unremarkable and was withdrawn in
conversation. Diaghilev and Nijinsky became lovers; the Ballets
Russes gave Nijinsky the chance to expand his art and experiment
with dance and choreography; he created new directions for male
dancers while becoming internationally famous. In 1912 Nijinsky
began choreographing original ballets, including L'apres-midi d'un
faune (1912) to music by Claude Debussy, Jeux (1913), and Till
Eulenspiegel (1916). At the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps
(1913) in Paris, with music by Igor Stravinsky, fights broke out
in the audience between those who loved and hated this startling
new style of ballet and music. Faune caused controversy because of
its sexually suggestive final scene. Nijinsky originally conceived
Jeux as a flirtatious interaction among three males, although
Diaghilev insisted it be danced by one male and two females. In
1913 Nijinsky married Hungarian Romola de Pulszky while on tour
with the company in South America. She had 'stalked' the company
and Nijinsky since 1912. The marriage caused a break with
Diaghilev, who soon dismissed Nijinsky from the company. The
couple had two daughters together, Kyra and Tamara Nijinska. With
no alternative employer available, Nijinsky tried to form his own
company, but this was not a success. He was interned in Budapest,
Hungary during World War I, under house arrest until 1916. He was
finally permitted to leave after intervention by Diaghilev and
international leaders; he was allowed to go to New York for an
American tour. Calls for his release had been made by Alfonso XIII
of Spain and President Wilson at the urging of Otto Kahn. Nijinsky
became increasingly mentally unstable with the stresses of having
to manage tours himself and deprived of opportunities to dance,
which had always been his total obsession. After a tour of South
America in 1917, and due to travel difficulties imposed by the
war, the family settled in St. Moritz, Switzerland. His mental
condition deteriorated; he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in
1919 and committed to an asylum for the first time. For the next
30 years, he was in and out of institutions, never dancing again
in public.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 2023: #DOTD: #RIP: Michael
Lerner, American Actor (b. June 22, 1941) #dies of complications
from brain seizures at a hospital in Burbank, California, on April
8, 2023, at the age of 81. He is buried at the Hollywood Forever
cemetery in Hollywood, California. Michael Lerner was born Michael
C. Lerner in Brooklyn, New York City into a Romanian-Jewish
family. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor for his role in Barton Fink (1991). Lerner has also played
Arnold Rothstein in Eight Men Out (1988), Phil Gillman in Amos &
Andrew (1993), The Warden in No Escape (1994), Mayor Ebert in
Roland Emmerich's Godzilla (1998), Mr. Greenway in Elf (2003), and
Senator Brickman in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). According
to Lerner, his father "liked to think he was an antiques
dealer, but in all actuality he was a junk dealer." He was
raised in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and in Solon, Ohio. His younger
brother Ken, nephew Sam, and niece Jenny are also actors. His
older brother, Arnold, died in 2004. Lerner made his first
television appearance at the age of 13, as a "quiz kid"
on a television program hosted by a local sportscaster. He played
Willy Loman in a production of Death Of A Salesman at Brooklyn
College, where Joel Zwick was a classmate. The experience
convinced him that he wanted to be an actor, rather than an
English professor. He also appeared as Sir Toby Belch in a
production of Twelfth Night directed by David Mamet in Greenwich
Village; William H. Macy was also in that production. After
graduating from Brooklyn College, where he studied acting, he
received a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley,
where he earned a master's degree in English drama. Although his
then-wife still thought he should become an English professor,
Lerner still wanted to be an actor; he received a Fulbright
Scholarship to study theater in London for two years, at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While there, he lived in
a flat with Yoko Ono and John Lennon. In 1968, he appeared in
Ono's short experimental film Smile, among other projects. "She
made a movie comprised of bare asses walking on a treadmill",
he once said. "I'm in it and so is Paul McCartney. Plus I'm
doing narration about censorship and all that crap." In 1968,
Lerner returned to the San Francisco Bay Area and joined the
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.). At the age of 24 he
appeared as "Hieronymous the Miser" in a KPFA radio
production of Michel de Ghelderode's Breugelesque play, Red Magic.
Lerner moved to Los Angeles in 1969, where he appeared in a
production of Little Murders, a play by Jules Feiffer that was
later adapted into a film by Alan Arkin. He also began making
guest appearances in television shows such as The Brady Bunch, The
Odd Couple, M*A*S*H, Banacek and The Rockford Files. In 1974, he
appeared in the teleplay The Missiles of October, playing Pierre
Salinger. In 1970, Lerner made his film debut in Alex in
Wonderland; director Paul Mazursky had seen his production of
Little Murders and enjoyed his performance. He then went on to
appear in supporting roles in various Hollywood movies such as The
Candidate, St. Ives and the 1981 remake of The Postman Always
Rings Twice. In 1991, after co-starring in Harlem Nights, Lerner
played film producer Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink, for which he
received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He
based the character in part on legendary film mogul Louis B.
Mayer; according to his brother Ken, he was working on a
screenplay about Mayer when he died. From 1996 to 1997, Lerner
played Mel Horowitz on the television series Clueless. In 1997, he
would play Joy Miller's father Jerry in The Beautician and the
Beast. Lerner's later projects include the Christmas comedy Elf
(2003) and Poster Boy (2004), as well as television programs such
as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Entourage. In 2010, he
appeared in the West End production of Up for Grabs with Madonna.
He also appeared on BBC Radio Four in 2008 as a member of the cast
of David Quantick's Radio Four's series One. He portrayed Senator
Brickman in the Marvel Comics/Twentieth Century Fox film, X-Men:
Days of Future Past (2014). In 2013, Lerner appeared in a Season 4
episode of Glee as Sidney Greene, an investor in the revival of
Broadway musical Funny Girl. His character is on the panel of
judges, watching the Rachel Berry character audition for the lead
role. He reprised his role as Sidney in Season 5 in several New
York-based episodes of the series, as Funny Girl opens on
Broadway. In addition to his acting career, Lerner was a collector
of rare books, an aficionado of Cuban cigars, and-by his own
account-a very good poker player. He was missing the tip of one
index finger, due to an injury suffered while cutting a tongue
sandwich while working at a deli in New York City.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1943: German Resistance To
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Of Otto and Elise Hampel: -- #DOTD: #RIP: The couple Otto and
Elise Hampel are beheaded in Berlin's Plotzensee Prison for their
anti-Nazi activities. Otto and Elise Hampel were a working-class
couple who created a simple method of protest against Nazism in
Berlin during the early years of World War II. They wrote
postcards denouncing Hitler's government and left them in public
places around the city. They were eventually caught, tried, and
executed. Shortly after the end of the war, their Gestapo file was
given to German novelist Hans Fallada, and their story inspired
his 1947 novel, translated into English and published in 2009 as
Every Man Dies Alone (Alone in Berlin in the UK).
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1842: #BOTD: #HBD! Elizabeth
Bacon Custer, American author, public speaker and beauty, wife of
Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, United States Army
(d. April 4, 1933) is #born Elizabeth Bacon in Monroe, Michigan.
Elizabeth "Libby" Bacon Custer spent most of their
marriage in relative proximity to him despite his numerous
military campaigns in the American Civil War and subsequent
postings on the Great Plains as a commanding officer in the United
States Cavalry. Left nearly destitute in the aftermath of her
husband's death, she became an outspoken advocate for his legacy
through her popular books and lectures. Largely as a result of her
decades of campaigning on his behalf, General Custer's image as
the gallant fallen hero amid the glory of Custer's Last Stand was
a canon of American history for almost a century after his death.
Elizabeth Custer never remarried. She has been portrayed by a
number of actresses, starting in the 1940s in films and later on
television. Libby Custer died in New York City, four days short of
her 91st birthday. She is buried next to her husband at West
Point. A few years before her death she told a writer that her
greatest disappointment was that she never had a son to bear her
husband's honored name.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 2013: #DOTD: #RIP: Margaret
Thatcher, English lawyer and politician known as the "Iron
Lady", British stateswoman who was Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative
Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British prime
minister of the 20th century and the first woman to have been
appointed (b. October 13, 1925) #dies at the Ritz Hotel, London,
England at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke. Reactions to
the news of Thatcher's death were widely mixed across the UK. She
received a ceremonial funeral, including full military honours,
with a church service at St Paul's Cathedral on April 17. Queen
Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh attended her funeral,
marking only the second and final time in the Queen's reign that
she attended the funeral of any of her former prime ministers,
after that of Churchill, who received a state funeral in 1965.
After the service at St Paul's, Thatcher's body was cremated at
Mortlake, where her husband had been cremated. On September 28, a
service for Thatcher was held in the All Saints Chapel of the
Royal Hospital Chelsea's Margaret Thatcher Infirmary. In a private
ceremony, Thatcher's ashes were interred in the hospital's
grounds, next to her husband's. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness
Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRIC was born Margaret Hilda Robert in
Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. A Soviet journalist dubbed her
the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with
her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime
Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as
Thatcherism. A research chemist before becoming a barrister,
Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959.
Edward Heath appointed her Secretary Of State for Education and
Science in his Conservative government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated
Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become
Leader of the Opposition and became the first woman to lead a
major political party in the United Kingdom. She became Prime
Minister after winning the 1979 general election. On moving into
10 Downing Street, Thatcher introduced a series of political and
economic initiatives intended to reverse high unemployment and
Britain's struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an
ongoing recession. Her political philosophy and economic policies
emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector),
flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned
companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions.
Thatcher's popularity during her first years in office waned amid
recession and increasing unemployment, until victory in the 1982
Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a resurgence of
support, resulting in her decisive re-election in 1983. She
survived an assassination attempt in 1984. Thatcher was re-elected
for a third term in 1987. During this period her support for a
Community Charge (referred to as the "poll tax") was
widely unpopular, and her opposition to the European Community
were not shared by others in her Cabinet. She resigned as Prime
Minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael
Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership. After retiring
from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness
Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which
entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. In 2013 she died of a
stroke in London at the age of 87. Always a controversial figure,
she has nonetheless been lauded as one of the greatest, most
influential and widest-known politicians in British history, even
as arguments over Thatcherism persist.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Carmen McRae,
African American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress,
considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th
century, remembered for her behind-the-beat phrasing and ironic
interpretation of lyrics (d. November 10, 1994) is #born Carmen
Mercedes McRae in Harlem, New York City. Her father, Osmond, and
mother, Evadne (Gayle) McRae, were immigrants from Jamaica. She
began studying piano when she was eight, and the music of jazz
greats such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington filled her home.
When she was 17 years old, she met singer Billie Holiday. As a
teenager McRae came to the attention of Teddy Wilson and his wife,
the composer Irene Kitchings. One of McRae's early songs, "Dream
of Life", was, through their influence, recorded in 1939 by
Wilson's long-time collaborator Billie Holiday. McRae considered
Holiday to be her primary influence. In her late teens and early
twenties, McRae played piano at Minton's Playhouse, sang as a
chorus girl, and worked as a secretary. It was at Minton's where
she met trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, bassist Oscar Pettiford, and
drummer Kenny Clarke, had her first important job as a pianist
with Benny Carter's big band (1944), worked with Count Basie
(1944) and under the name "Carmen Clarke" (having
married Clarke) made her first recording as pianist with the
Mercer Ellington Band (1946-47). But it was while working in
Brooklyn that she came to the attention of Decca's Milt Gabler.
Her five-year association with Decca yielded 12 LPs. In 1948, she
moved to Chicago with comedian and impressionist George Kirby,
with whom she had fallen in love. At the end of the relationship,
she worked as a pianist and singer at the Archway Lounge. She
played piano steadily for almost four years at a number of clubs
in Chicago before returning to New York in 1952. In Chicago she
developed her own specific style. Those years in Chicago, McRae
told Jazz Forum, "gave me whatever it is that I have now.
That's the most prominent schooling I ever had." Back in New
York in the early 1950s, McRae got the record contract that
launched her career. She was voted best new female vocalist of
1954 by DownBeat magazine. MacRae married twice: to drummer Kenny
Clarke from 1944 to 1956, though they separated in 1948; and to
bassist Ike Isaacs from 1956 to 1967. Both marriages ended in
divorce. Among her most interesting recording projects were Mad
About The Man (1957) with composer Noel Coward, Boy Meets Girl
(1957) with Sammy Davis, Jr., participating in Dave Brubeck's The
Real Ambassadors (1961) with Louis Armstrong, a tribute album
You're Lookin' at Me (A Collection of Nat King Cole Songs) (1983),
cutting an album of live duets with Betty Carter, The Carmen
McRae-Betty Carter Duets (1987), being accompanied by Dave Brubeck
and George Shearing, and closing her career with tributes to
Thelonious Monk, Carmen Sings Monk (1990), and Sarah Vaughan,
Sarah: Dedicated to You (1991). As a result of her early
friendship with Billie Holiday, she never performed without
singing at least one song associated with "Lady Day",
and she recorded an album in 1983 in her honor entitled For Lady
Day, which was released in 1995, with songs including "Good
Morning Heartache", "Them There Eyes", "Lover
Man", "God Bless the Child" and "Don't
Explain". McRae also recorded with some of the world's best
jazz musicians in albums such as Take Five Live (1961) with Dave
Brubeck, Two for the Road (1980) with George Shearing, and Heat
Wave (1982) with Cal Tjader. The latter two albums were part of a
notable eight-year relationship with Concord Jazz. McRae sang in
jazz clubs throughout the United States-and across the world-for
more than fifty years. She was a popular performer at the Monterey
Jazz Festival (1961-63, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1982), performing with
Duke Ellington's orchestra at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1980,
singing "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", and at the
Montreux Jazz Festival in 1989. She left New York for Southern
California in the late 1960s, but appeared in New York regularly,
usually at the Blue Note, where she performed two engagements a
year through most of the 1980s. In May-June 1988, she collaborated
with Harry Connick Jr. on the song "Please Don't Talk About
Me When I'm Gone" (S. Clare & S. Stept) in New York City
at the RCA Studios, for Connick's debut album, 20. She withdrew
from public performance in May 1991 after an episode of
respiratory failure only hours after she completed an engagement
at the Blue Note jazz club in New York. On November 10, 1994,
McRae died at her home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of
74. She had fallen into a semi-coma four days earlier, a month
after being hospitalized for a stroke. She was cremated, and her
ashes were scattered at sea.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1993: #DOTD: #RIP: Marian
Anderson, African American contralto and one of the most
celebrated singers of the twentieth century (b. February 27, 1897)
#dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 96 at the home of
her nephew, conductor James DePreist, in Portland, Oregon, where
she had relocated. She is interred at Eden Cemetery, in
Collingdale, Pennsylvania. Marian Anderson was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Music critic Alan Blyth said: "Her
voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty", and
Arturo Toscanini praised her voice as one "heard once in a
hundred years". Most of her singing career was spent
performing in concert and recital in major music venues and with
famous orchestras throughout the United States and Europe between
1925 and 1965. Although offered roles with many important European
opera companies, Anderson declined, as she had no training in
acting. She preferred to perform in concert and recital only. She
did, however, perform opera arias within her concerts and
recitals. She made many recordings that reflected her broad
performance repertoire of everything from concert literature to
lieder to opera to traditional American songs and spirituals.
Between 1940 and 1965 the German-American pianist Franz Rupp was
her permanent accompanist. Anderson became an important figure in
the struggle for black artists to overcome racial prejudice in the
United States during the mid-twentieth century. In 1939, the
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused permission for
Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall.
The incident placed Anderson into the spotlight of the
international community on a level unusual for a classical
musician. With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her
husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically
acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. She sang before
a crowd of more than 75,000 people and a radio audience in the
millions. Anderson continued to break barriers for black artists
in the United States, becoming the first black person, American or
otherwise, to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City
on January 7, 1955. Her performance as Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's
Un ballo in maschera at the Met was the only time she sang an
opera role on stage. Anderson worked for several years as a
delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and as a
"goodwill ambassadress" for the United States Department
of State, giving concerts all over the world. She participated in
the civil rights movement in the 1960s, singing at the March On
Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. The recipient of numerous
awards and honors, Anderson was awarded the Presidential Medal Of
Freedom in 1963, the Congressional Gold Medal in 1977, the Kennedy
Center Honors in 1978, the National Medal of Arts in 1986, and a
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.
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Today, April 8, 2026April 8, 1997: #DOTD: #RIP: Laura Nyro,
American songwriter and singer who achieved critical acclaim with
her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth
Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969), and had
commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The
5th Dimension recording her songs, idolized by contemporaries such
as Elton John with wider posthumous recognition for her artistry,
praised for her emotive three-octave mezzo-soprano voice (b
October 18, 1947) #diea of ovarian cancer in Danbury, Connecticut
at 49, the same age at which her mother died. Her ashes were
scattered beneath a maple tree on the grounds of her house in
Danbury. Laura Nyro was born Laura Nigro in The Bronx, New York
City, the daughter of Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz
trumpeter, and Gilda (nee Mirsky) Nigro, a bookkeeper, a family of
Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, with Italian American
ancestry from her father's father; Laura had a younger brother,
Jan Nigro, who has become a children's musician. Her father gave
her the name "Laura", after hearing the title theme of
the 1944 film Laura. Between 1968 and 1970, a number of artists
had hits with her songs: The 5th Dimension with "Blowing
Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul
Picnic", "Sweet Blindness", and "Save The
Country"; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter, Paul and Mary
with "And When I Die"; Three Dog Night and Maynard
Ferguson with "Eli's Comin'"; and Barbra Streisand with
"Stoney End", "Time And Love", and "Hands
Off The Man (Flim Flam Man)". Nyro's best-selling single was
her recording of Carole King's and Gerry Goffin's "Up On The
Roof". In late 1996, Nyro, like her mother, was diagnosed
with ovarian cancer. After the diagnosis, Columbia Records, with
Nyro's involvement, prepared a two-CD retrospective of material
from her years at the label. She lived to see the release of
Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro in 1997. Nyro was
posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010,
and into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2012.
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