On This Day In History

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8th April 217AD

Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.

 
On April 8, 1990, 18-year-old Ryan White dies of pneumonia, due to having contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion.

 
1731

British Captain Robert Jenkins loses an ear to a band of Spanish brigands, starting a war between Britain and Spain: The War of Jenkins' Ear.

 
9th April 1963

Winston Churchill becomes first honorary U.S. Citizen.

 
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April 17, 1790, American statesman, printer, scientist and writer Benjamin Franklin dies in Philadelphia at age 84.

 
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