This Day In History

April 8
1929
Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1942
World War II: Siege of Leningrad Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
1950
India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
1971
Dr. Kamal Hossain, Constitutional Advisor to Bangabandhu, is arrested in Dhaka by the Pakistan army and flown to West Pakistan, where he will be confined till December of the year. He will return to a free Bangladesh on January 10, 1972 with Bangabandhu.
1973
Art master Picasso dies. The artist Pablo Picasso has died of a heart attack at his chateau near Cannes on the French Riviera.
1985
Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
2004
Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.