April 8, 2023

April 8, 2023, was a Saturday. It was the 98th day of 2023. The decade was the 2020s.

7 months and 29 days have passed since April 8, 2023.

The zodiac star sign for this date is Aries.

What happened?

What happened on April 8, 2023?

UFC 287: Israel Adesanya knocks out Alex Pereira.

Facts

This date was 243 days ago. Approximately 8 months have passed. It was the 98th day of 2023, in week 14. The decade was the 2020s. A baby that was born on this day is now 7 months old. The Earth has experienced 3 seasons of weather since then.

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What happened around this time?

Notable events that happened close to April 8, 2023.

March 9, 2023:
• Seven people are shot dead at a Jehovah's Witness center in Hamburg, Germany.
• English astrologer Mystic Meg dies at the age of 80.
March 10, 2023:
• Xi Jinping secures an unprecedented third term as China's president.
• The BBC forces Gary Lineker to take a step back from his role as a "Match of the Day" presenter due to political remarks he made on social media.
• Silicon Valley Bank is shut down by regulators following a bank run on its deposits.
• The film "Scream VI" is released.
• Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding release the song "Miracle".
March 12, 2023:
• 95th Academy Awards: "Everything Everywhere All at Once" wins Best Picture, Brendan Fraser wins Best Actor, and Michelle Yeoh wins Best Actress.
• US regulators close New York-based Signature Bank due to a "systemic risk".
March 13, 2023: Convicted pedophile Gary Glitter is returned to prison for breaching his release licence conditions.
March 14, 2023:
• Australia announces that it is purchasing five US nuclear submarines.
• China decides to reopen its borders to tourists following a three-year halt.
• Meta confirms that it is cutting 10,000 more jobs.
• The US military accuses Russian Su-27 fighters of intercepting an unmanned MQ-9 Reaper over international waters.
March 15, 2023: The FBI arrests exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui on suspicion of fraud.
March 16, 2023: French President Emmanuel Macron uses special constitutional powers to push his plan of raising the retirement age through the lower house.
March 17, 2023:
• The film "Shazam! Fury of the Gods" is released.
• The video game "WWE 2K23" is released.
• Actor Lance Reddick dies at the age of 60.
• The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes.
• Taylor Swift begins her "The Eras Tour".
March 18, 2023:
• Former US President Donald Trump tells his social media followers that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday.
• Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signs a law banning abortion pills.
• French pension protests: Uncollected trash in Paris mounts to 10,000 tonnes due to strikes.
• Rugby: Ireland win the Six Nations and their first Grand Slam in Dublin.
March 19, 2023:
• Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is charged with terrorism.
• It is announced that UBS will be buying the troubled Credit Suisse bank for over $2 billion.
March 20, 2023:
• Amazon announces that it is laying off a further 9,000 workers.
• Carson Briere, the son of Philadelphia Flyers interim GM Danny Briere, is charged with pushing a disabled woman's wheelchair down the steps of a bar.
• Actress Amanda Bynes is placed on psychiatric hold after roaming around Los Angeles naked.
March 21, 2023:
• Uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ.
• Gwyneth Paltrow's ski crash trial begins.
March 22, 2023:
• A judge in Wyoming temporarily blocks the state's new ban on abortion.
• The SEC charges Jake Paul, Lindsay Lohan, Ne-Yo, Soulja Boy, Lil Yachty, and three other celebrities for participating in an illegal crypto scheme.
• Six people are killed in Maryland after a vehicle crashes into construction workers along the Baltimore beltway.
• Soccer: German footballer Mesut Özil announces his retirement due to injuries.
March 23, 2023:
• TikTok CEO Shou Chew testifies before Congress.
• Ukraine claims that Russia's four-month-long assault in Bakhmut is losing steam and that a counterassault will occur soon.
• Twitter announces that it is ending its "blue check" verification system.
• One million people demonstrate against pension reforms in France.
March 24, 2023:
• The action film "John Wick: Chapter 4" is released.
• The remake version of the video game "Resident Evil 4" is released.
• France bans TikTok and Twitter from government phones due to security concerns.
• Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth announce that they are getting divorced.
• At least 25 people are killed after a tornado and severe storms hit Mississippi.
• Soccer: Thomas Tuchel is announced as the new manager of Bayern Munich.
March 25, 2023:
• Kanye West states that he "likes Jewish people again" after watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street.
• An AI-generated image of the Pope wearing a white puffer jacket goes viral on social media.
March 26, 2023:
• Harry Styles is spotted kissing Emily Ratajkowski.
• NATO says that Russia's plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus are "dangerous and irresponsible".
• Protesters block roads across Israel after Defense Minister Gallant is fired for opposing Netanyahu's judicial overhaul.
• Soccer: Tottenham Hotspur sack manager Antonio Conte.
March 27, 2023:
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delays controversial plans to reform Israel's judiciary.
• Six people, including three children, are killed during a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.
March 28, 2023:
• MI5 raises the terror threat level in Northern Ireland to "severe", suggesting an attack is likely.
• At least 39 people die after a fire breaks out at a migrant detention facility on the US-Mexico border.
• Twitter restricts Marjorie Taylor Greene's account due to tweets she made about trans people and the Nashville shooting.
• English TV star Paul O'Grady dies at the age of 67.
March 29, 2023: Pope Francis is hospitalized for a pulmonary infection.
March 30, 2023:
• A grand jury in New York votes to indict former US president Donald Trump over hush money payments that he allegedly made in 2016.
• Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is cleared of all fault during a high-profile skiing lawsuit.
• Turkey's parliament ratifies Finland's NATO membership.
March 31, 2023: The adventure film "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" is released.
April 1, 2023:
• WrestleMania 39: Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn defeat The Usos to win the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship.
• A boycott on Anheuser-Busch products begins after the company does a sponsorship with transgender actress Dylan Mulvaney.
April 2, 2023:
• Soccer: Brendan Rodgers is sacked by Leicester City.
• Soccer: Graham Potter is sacked by Chelsea.
• Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky is killed by a bomb in Saint Petersburg.
• Celebrities and news organizations state that they will not pay for Twitter's new blue tick.
• Elon Musk attacks the New York Times after it says that it will not pay for Twitter's new verified subscription service.
• WrestleMania 39: Roman Reigns defeats Cody Rhodes to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.
April 3, 2023:
• The Russian paramilitary group Wagner claims that it has captured the city hall in Bakhmut.
• Donald Trump flies to New York to face criminal charges for alleged hush money payments.
• The WWE and the UFC's parent company, Endeavor, agree to merge.
April 4, 2023:
• Finland formally joins NATO.
• Former US President Donald Trump is formally arrested and charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
April 6, 2023:
• Soccer: Frank Lampard is named as the caretaker manager of Chelsea.
• Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is diagnosed with leukemia.
• Robert De Niro (79) and his girlfriend, Tiffany Chen (45), have a daughter.
April 7, 2023:
• The computer-animated film "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" is released.
• Former S Club 7 member Paul Cattermole is found dead at his home at the age of 46.
• It is revealed that the death of Coolio was caused by drugs.
• Access to the abortion pill mifepristone is plunged into uncertainty in the US after two federal judges make conflicting rulings.
This date: April 8, 2023
April 9, 2023: Jon Rahm wins the 2023 Masters Tournament.
April 10, 2023: A bank employee shoots and kills five people at his workplace in Louisville, Kentucky.
April 11, 2023: Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu claims that China is getting ready to wage a war against his country.
April 12, 2023:
• Warner Bros Discovery announces that it is creating a Harry Potter TV series.
• NPR quits Twitter after its account is labelled as "government-funded".
April 13, 2023:
• American airman Jack Teixeira is arrested at his home on suspicion of leaking classified documents.
• 16-year-old Ralph Yarl is shot dead after ringing the wrong doorbell in Kansas City, Missouri.
April 14, 2023: The film "The Pope's Exorcist" is released.
April 15, 2023:
• Germany switches off its last three nuclear reactors.
• Four people are killed in a mass shooting at a birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama.
• 19-year-old Blake Walsh is shot dead after pulling into the wrong driveway in Hebron, New York.
• An armed conflict between rival factions breaks out in Sudan.
April 18, 2023: Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems agree a last-minute settlement for $787.5m in a "vote-rigging" defamation case.
April 19, 2023:
• Ukraine receives Patriot missiles from the United States.
• Oklahoma county commissioner Mark Jennings resigns after being recorded talking about lynching Black residents.
• At least 85 people are killed after a stampede occurs at a charity event in Yemen.
• K-pop singer Moon Bin commits suicide at the age of 25.
• Microsoft announces that it will be dropping Twitter from its advertising platform.
• Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft for allegedly training their ChatGPT AI with Twitter data.
April 20, 2023:
• Twitter begins to remove legacy blue ticks from accounts.
• Involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin are dropped.
• SpaceX's Starship explodes shortly after taking off.
• MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen apologizes for her "leave pity city" speech.
• BuzzFeed announces that it is closing its news department.
April 21, 2023: The horror film "Evil Dead Rise" is released.
April 22, 2023: Football: Wrexham win promotion to the Football League after 15 years.
April 23, 2023:
• Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy protection.
• UK politics: Diane Abbott is suspended as a Labour MP after claiming that Jewish people do not face racism.
April 24, 2023:
• It is announced that Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News.
• Don Lemon announces that he has been fired by CNN.
• An arrest warrant is issued for Jackass star Bam Margera following a physical confrontation in Pennsylvania.
April 25, 2023:
• US President Joe Biden confirms that he is running for reelection in 2024.
• Singer and activist, Harry Belafonte, dies at the age of 96.
• The Taliban kills the ISIS leader that orchestrated the 2021 Afghanistan airport attack.
April 26, 2023: Microsoft's takeover of Activision is blocked by a British regulator.
April 27, 2023: Talk show host Jerry Springer dies at the age of 79.
April 28, 2023:
• Five people, including an 8-year-old boy, are shot dead at a house in Cleveland, Texas.
• It is reported that 110 members of the Malindi cult have been found dead in Kenya following a mass starvation incident.
April 29, 2023: Ukrainian drones strike a Russian fuel depot in Crimea.
May 1, 2023:
• The White House estimates that 100,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine.
• The police find seven bodies on the land of a registered sex offender in Henryetta, Oklahoma.
• First Republic Bank is seized by financial regulators and sold to JPMorgan.
• A video of a cockroach on the red carpet at the 2023 Met Gala goes viral.
May 2, 2023:
• The 2023 Writers Guild of America strike begins.
• The first-person shooter game "Redfall" is released.
May 3, 2023:
• The Kremlin claims that it was attacked by two drones overnight.
• A student shoots nine people dead at the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in Belgrade, Serbia.
May 4, 2023:
• Eight people are killed in Serbia's second mass shooting in one week.
• A court rules that Ed Sheeran's song "Thinking Out Loud" did not copy Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On".
• GameStop announces that it is pulling out of Ireland.
• UK politics: The Conservative Party loses more than 1,000 council seats in the 2023 United Kingdom local elections.
May 5, 2023:
• The film "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" is released.
• The WHO officially declares an end to Covid-19 global health emergency.
• Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin threatens to pull his troops out of Bakhmut due to ammo shortages.
May 6, 2023:
• The coronation of King Charles III takes place.
• Eight people are killed in a mass shooting at a mall in Allen, Texas.
May 8, 2023: Sum 41 announce that they are splitting up after 27 years together.

Zodiac

Zodiac, birthstone, and birth flower information.

Personality summary image

Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on April 8, 2023, will have the star sign Aries.
Zodiac Element: Fire.
Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 2023 is the year of the Rabbit (Yin Fire).
The Life Path Number for this date is 1.
Native American Zodiac: April 8, 2023 falls under the Falcon.
Birthstone: A person during the month of April will have the birthstone Diamond.
Birth flower (April): The Daisy and the Sweet Pea.

Popular toys and games in 2023

Toys and games that were popular in 2023:

The PlayStation 5

The Xbox Series X

Celebrity birthdays

Celebrities, historical figures, and other notable people who were born on April 8.

Betty Ford

First Lady of the United States Deceased
Born on April 8, 1918
She was not alive on this date.

Kofi Annan

UN Secretary Deceased
Born on April 8, 1938
He was not alive on this date.

Paul Gray

American musician Deceased
Born on April 8, 1972
He was not alive on this date.

Chris Kyle

Navy Seal sniper Deceased
Born on April 8, 1974
He was not alive on this date.

Matty Healy

Singer
Born on April 8, 1989
He turned 34 on this day in 2023.

Jonghyun

South Korean singer Deceased
Born on April 8, 1990
He was not alive on this date.

US President

Joe Biden was the President of the United States on April 8, 2023.

UK Prime Minister

Rishi Sunak was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Irish Taoiseach

Micheál Martin was the Taoiseach of Ireland.

Conception dates

Conception estimates for this date.

Warning! These conception dates are based on broad estimates.

A baby that was born on April 8, 2023 was most likely conceived around July 16, 2022.
The due date for a baby that was conceived on April 8, 2023 is close to December 30, 2023.

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Statistics

Here are some interesting statistics about April 8, 2023:

243 days have passed since this date.
34 weeks have passed.
20,998,800 seconds have passed since April 8, 2023.
If you were born on this day, your heart has beat approximately 24,498,600 times.
Since then, the Earth has traveled approximately 10,835,380,800 miles through space.
If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 3,499,800 times.
You have taken approximately 1,805,897 steps. That's roughly 803 miles!
Since this date, 251,986 meteors have entered the Earth's atmosphere!
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