April 8: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
2. 1895 - In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
3. 1904 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
4. 1911 - Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
5. 1913 - The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
6. 1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
7. 1959 - A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
8. 1959 - The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
9. 1974 - At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.
10. 2008 - The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
11. Famous Birthdays: Giuseppe Tartini (Italian violinist and composer), Lewis Morris (American judge and politician), David Rittenhouse (American astronomer and mathematician), John Hicks (English economist, Nobel Prize laureate), Melvin Calvin (American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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