8th April
1820 The famous ancient Greek statue, Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos
1929 Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
9th April
1783 Tippu Sahib drives out British from Bednore, India
1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
10th April
1815 Mount Tambora in Dutch East Indies experiences cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global volcanic winter
1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400
11th April
1814 Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba
1955 Chartered Air India plane the “Kashmir Princess” is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent
12th April
1956 Bandaranaike’s government takes office in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
13th April
1796 First elephant arrives in USA from India
1933 1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
14th April
1699 Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar
1872 Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
