TODAY IN HISTORY
1681 Apr 8, England's King Charles II received the 1st installment of a 5-million livre subsidy from King Louis of France. This provided him independence from Parliament and he ruled without it until his death in 1685.
1795 Apr 8, The Prince of Wales, later England’s King George IV, married his German cousin, Caroline, to produce an heir and increase his income. On their wedding night the drunken bridegroom spent the night "under the grate, where he fell, and where I left him." The story is told by Flora Fraser in her book: "The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline." Masterpiece Theater made a TV presentation in 1997.
1879 Apr 8, Milk was sold in glass bottles for the 1st time.
1953 Apr 8, Jomo Kenyatta convicted of involvement with Mau Mau and sentenced to 7 years in Kenya
1979 Apr 8, Liberation war. Tanzanian and UNLA forces close in on Entebbe, as Idi Amin reported to have fled Kampala.
https://www.wikizero.com/en/Battle_of_Entebbe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda%E2%80%93Tanzania_War
https://www.wikizero.com/en/Battle_of_Entebbe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda%E2%80%93Tanzania_War
1994 Apr 8, In Rwanda Jean Kambanda was appointed prime minister of the interim government. He went on radio and urged fellow Hutus to abuse, hurt and kill Tutsis and Hutu moderates. He pleaded guilty in 1998 to charges that he incited the slaughter of over 800,000 Rwandans.
1994 Apr 8, In Rwanda more than 1,400 Tutsis were massacred by Hutu militia at a church atop a hill in Kesho.
1994 Apr 8, About this time the commander of UN forces in Rwanda warned Kofi Annan, head of the UN Peacekeeping operations, that the Kigali government was planning to slaughter Tutsis. Annan’s office ordered Gen’l. Romeo Dallaire of Canada not to protect the informant or to confiscate arms stockpiles. Annan later claimed that he lacked the military might and political backing to stop the slaughter of more than 500,000 people.
2001 Apr 8, 65th Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods wins, shooting a 272
Source http://www.timelines.ws and http://www.historyorb.com
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