Martha Place Becomes First Woman Executed by Electric Chair — Martha Place Becomes First Woman to be Executed by Electric Chair

April 8 is the 98st day of the year (99nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1513 - Spanish Conquistador Juan Ponce de León discovered Florida and declared it Spanish territory.
1730 – The first synagogue was opened in New York.
The Crimean Khanate, which has existed since 1783 – 1441, II. It was annexed by the Russian Empire by order of Catherine.
1820 – The Venus of Milo statue was found on the Aegean island of Melos.
1830 – European countries asked the Ottoman Empire to approve the independence of the Greek State.
1869 – The construction of the 2nd Darülfünun building was completed and Darülfünun-ı Osmani was established.
1899 - Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed by the electric chair.
1918 – World War I: Movie actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York.
1920 – The Committee of Representatives circular was issued, stating that the Damat Ferit Pasha Cabinet, which was established with the resignation of Salih Pasha (Salih Hulusi Kezrak), would not be recognized.
1923 – Mustafa Kemal 9 hopeannounced the . At the forefront of these principles, which was the election declaration of the Anatolian and Rumelian Defense of Rights Association, was the article 'Sovereignty is the Nation'.
1924 – The new abolition of sharia courts Law on the Organization of Courts It was accepted in the Parliament. Judges took their place.
1933 – Civil servants considered non-pure in Germany were retired.
1943 - The President of the United States, Roosevelt, announced that he had frozen all wages and wages and prohibited workers from changing jobs in order to keep inflation under control.
1946 - The League of Nations held its last session. From now on, the name of the organization will be the United Nations.
1953 – Jomo Kenyatta, the leader of the Kenyan independence movement, was arrested by the British colonial administration on the grounds of the Mau Mau Uprising.
1956 – Seyhan Dam was put into service.
1960 – It rained mud on Istanbul for ten hours.
1968 – Students of the Middle East Technical University occupied the Rectorate building.
1976 – In the incidents that broke out in various faculties and dormitories in Ankara, three students Esari Oran and Burhan Barın were killed, including Hakan Yurdakuler, son of Natural Senator Muzaffer Yurdakuler, and many students were injured.
1992 – It was decided to give the International Atatürk Peace Prize to South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela did not accept the award due to accusations of human rights violations against the Turkish Government.
1993 – During the excavations in the Breton region of France, it was claimed that the village where the famous comic book hero Asterix lived was found.
1994 – DenizTemiz Association (Turmepa) was established.
1999 – A bomb attack was carried out on Hakkari Governor Nihat Canpolat in Yüksekova district. Canpolat escaped the attack with minor injuries; The driver was killed and seven people were injured.
2022 – While the B757 cargo plane belonging to DHL left the runway during its emergency landing at San Jose Airport, the capital of Costa Rica, a great disaster was returned in the square. And the cargo plane was split into 2.

Births

563 BC – Gautama Buddha, Indian religious leader and founder of Buddhism (d. 483 BC)
566 – Gaozu, founder and first emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China (d. 626)
1320 – Pedro I, king of Portugal (d. 1367)
1336 – Timur, founder and first ruler of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)
1605 – IV. Felipe, King of Spain (d. 1665)
1692 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1770)
1777 – Antoine Risso, Nissart naturalist (d. 1845)
1859 – Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (d. 1938)
1875 – Albert I, King of Belgium (d. 1934)
1880 Herbert Adams Gibbons, American journalist (d. 1934)
1909 – John Fante, American author (d. 1983)
1911 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
1911 – Melvin Calvin, American biochemist (d. 1997)
1912 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian ice skater and film actress (d. 1969)
1922 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer and pianist (d. 1991)
1929 – Jacques Brel, Belgian songwriter, singer and musician (d. 1978)
1938 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (7th Secretary-General of the United Nations) (d. 2018)
1941 – Vivienne Westwood, English educator, fashion designer, activist, and businesswoman (d. 2022)
1942 – Mehmed Niyazi Özdemir, Turkish historian and writer (d. 2018)
1944 – Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian figurative painter
1946 – Tim Thomerson, an American actor
1947 – Ertuğrul Özkök, Turkish journalist and academic
1949 – John Madden, British theatre, film, television and radio director
1950 – Grzegorz Lato, Polish football player
1951 – Geir Haarde, Icelandic politician and former prime minister
1952 – Ahmet Piriştina, Turkish politician and former Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality (d. 2004)
1955 – Ron Johnson, an American accountant, businessman, and politician
1960 – John Schneider is an American actor, singer, writer, and filmmaker.
1961 – Brian McDermott, English football player and manager
1962 – Carme Pigem, architect of Catalan origin
1962 – Izzy Stradlin, American musician
1963 - Dean Norris, American actor
1964 – Biz Markie, American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, producer, comedian, actor, and television personality (d. 2021)
1965 – Christophe Farnaud, French ambassador
1966 – Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer (d. 2014)
1966 - Mark Blundell, former Formula 1 and CART racer
1966 – Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand-born Australian model and TV presenter (d. 2014)
1966 – Armağan Çağlayan, Turkish television producer, lawyer and academic
1966 – Mazinho, Brazilian football player and manager
1966 – Harri Rovanperä is a Finnish rally driver
1966 Robin Wright, American actress
1968 - Patricia Arquette, American actress and winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1968 – Patricia Girard, French former athlete
1970 – Didem Madak, Turkish poet (d. 2011)
1972 – Paul Gray, American musician and bassist of the metal band Slipknot (d. 2010)
1973 – Emma Caulfield, American actress
1974 – Batuhan Mutlugil, Turkish musician
1975 – Anouk Teeuwe, Dutch singer
1975 – Funda Arar, Turkish singer
1979 – Alexi Laiho, Finnish soloist, guitarist and songwriter
1980 – Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
1980 – Katee Sackhoff, American actress
1982 – Gennady Golovkin, Kazakh professional boxer
1983 – Natalia Doussopoulus, Greek singer and TV actress
1984 – Ezra Koenig, American singer-songwriter
1984 – Nemanja Tubic, Serbian football player
1986 – Igor Akinfeyev Russian football player
1987 – Royston Drenthe, Dutch football player
1990 – Kim Jonghyun, South Korean singer (d. 2017)
1995 – Cedi Osman, Turkish basketball player
1996 – Anna Korakaki, Greek shooter
1997 – Diosdado Mbele, Equatorial Sunny football player

Deaths

217 – Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 186)
622 – Prince Shōtoku, statesman and member of the Asuka Period Japanese Imperial Family (b. 574)
1143 – II. John Komninos or Comnenus, Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143 (b. 1087)
1162 – Eudes de Deuil or Odo, Odon, French historian and participant of the Second Crusade (1147-1149) (b. 1110)
1364 – II. Jean is called the Good (French: le Bon) – King of France (b. 1319)
1450 – King Sejong the Great, king of the Joseon Dynasty (b. 1397)
1492 – Lorenzo de' Medici or Lorenzo il Magnifico, Italian statesman (b. 1449)
1551 – Oda Nobuhide, a daimyō in the Sengoku period (b. 1510)
1735 – II. Ferenc Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian independence movement (b. 1676)
1835 – Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Carl Ferdinand von Humboldt, German philosopher, linguist, and statesman (b. 1767)
1848 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
1918 – Ludwig Georg Courvoisier, surgeon from Basel, Switzerland (b. 1843)
1919 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
1922 – Erich von Falkenhayn, German general and Ottoman field marshal (b. 1861)
1931 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1936 – Robert Bárány, Austrian otologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1914 (1876)
1949 – Wilhelm Adam, German general who served as chief of staff of the Reichswehr before Adolf Hitler (b. 1877)
1950 – Vaclav Nijinski, Polish ballet dancer (b. 1889)
1958 – Mehmet Kamil Berk, Turkish medical doctor (one of the doctors of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk) (b. 1878)
1959 – Şefik Hüsnü, Turkish medical doctor and politician (b. 1887)
1971 – Fritz von Opel, German automotive industrialist (b. 1899)
1973 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and pioneer of cubism (b. 1881)
1976 – Hakan Yurdakuler, Ankara University Faculty of Political Science student (killed)
1981 – Omar Bradley, American soldier (b. 1893)
1984 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1894)
1985 – Vedat Nedim Tör, Turkish writer and Staff co-founder of the magazine (b. 1897)
1991 – Per Yngve Ohlin, also known by the stage name Dead (b. 1969)
1992 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist (b. 1907)
1993 – Marian Anderson, American singer (b. 1897)
1996 – Ben Johnson, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (b. 1918)
1996 – León Klimovsky, Argentine screenwriter and filmmaker (b. 1906)
2000 – İbrahim Ahmed or İbrahim Ehmed, Kurdish writer and translator (b. 1914)
2000 – Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
2002 – María Félix, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1914)
2002 – Savaş Yurttaş, Turkish theater artist (b. 1944)
2004 – Doğan Baran, Turkish medical doctor, politician and former Minister of Health (b. 1929)
2006 – Dick Alban, American football player (b. 1929)
2007 – Sol LeWitt, American sculptor and painter (b. 1928)
2008 – Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
2010 – Antony Garrard Newton Flew, English philosopher (b. 1923)
2010 – Malcolm McLaren, English rock singer, musician and manager (b. 1946)
2010 – Jean-Paul Proust, French governor (b. 1940)
2010 – Dorothea Margaretha Scholten-van Zwieteren, Dutch singer (b. 1926)
2012 – Jack Tramiel, Polish-American businessman (b. 1928)
2013 – Annette Joanne Funicello, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
2013 – Sara Montiel (known as: Sarita Montiel, birth name: Maria Antonia Abad), Spanish actress and singer (b. 1928)
2013 – Margaret Thatcher, British politician and former Prime Minister (b. 1925)
2013 – Yasuhiro Yamada, former Japanese football player (b. 1968)
2014 – James Brian Hellwig (known as: Warrior, The Ultimate Warrior ve Dingo warrior), American professional wrestler who fought in the WWE (b. 1959)
2015 – Jayakanthan, Indian journalist, critic and author (b. 1934)
2016 – Erich Rudorffer, II. Fighter pilot who served in the German army during World War II (b. 1917)
2017 – Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1931)
2018 – Leila Abashidze, Georgian-Soviet actress, film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2018 – Juraj Herz, Czech director, actor, screenwriter and stage designer (b. 1934)
2018 – Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Russian sound artist, musician, architect and visual artist (b. 1941)
2018 – Charles Jonathan Thomas “Chuck” McCann, American actor, voice actor, puppeteer, and comedian (b. 1934)
2018 – Ali Haydar Öner, Turkish bureaucrat and politician (b. 1948)
2019 – Josine Ianco-Starrels, Romanian-born American artistic director and academic (b. 1926)
2020 – Richard L. Brodsky, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
2020 – Jaroslava Brychtová, Czech contemporary artist (b. 1924)
2020 – Robert “Bob” Lynn Carroll, American-Canadian vertebrate paleontologist (b. 1938)
2020 – Miguel Jones Castillo, Spanish football player (b. 1938)
2020 – Martin S. Fox, American publisher (b. 1924)
2020 – Miguel Jones, Spanish football player (b. 1938)
2020 – Bernaie Juskiewicz, American politician (b. 1943)
2020 – Joel J. Kupperman, American professor of philosophy (b. 1936)
2020 – Francesco La Rosa, Italian football player (b. 1926)
2020 – Henri Madelin, French Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1936)
2020 – Rick May, American voice actor and theater performer, director, and teacher (b. 1940)
2020 – Valeriu Muravschi, Moldovan politician and businessman who served as Prime Minister of Moldova from 28 May 1991 to 1 July 1992 (b. 1949)
2020 – Norman I. Platnick, American arachnologist and taxonomist (b. 1951)
2020 – Robert Poujade, French politician (b. 1928)
2020 – Donato Sabia, Italian middle-distance runner specializing in the 800 meters (b. 1963)
2021 – Margaret Wander Bonanno, American author and historian (b. 1950)
2021 – Jovan Divjak, Bosnian army general (b. 1937)
2021 – Diána Igaly, Hungarian shooter (b. 1965)
2021 – Roseli Aparecida Machado, Brazilian long-distance runner (b. 1968)
2022 – Psalm Adjeteyfio, Ghanaian actor (b. 1948)
2022 – Peng Ming-min, Taiwanese democracy activist, politician, and lawyer (b. 1923)

Holidays and special occasions

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