Article 4 -- No Title
Date: 08 April 1898
From The London News
Achille Van Acker Birthday, Date of Birth
Achille Van Acker (8 April 1898 – 10 July 1975) was a Belgian politician who served three terms as Prime Minister of Belgium between 1946 and 1958. A moderate from Flanders, Van Acker was a member of the Belgian Socialist Party (PSB–BSP) and played an important role in the creation of the Belgian welfare state after World War II.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Friday, April 8, 1898
- Place of Birth
- Bruges
- Age
- 123
- Star Sign
- ♈
The April 8, 1898 was a Friday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 97 day of the year. President of the United States was William McKinley.
If you were born on this day, you are 123 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, April 8, 2021, 6 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, April 8, 2022, in 358 days. You have lived for 44,931 days, or about 1,078,344 hours, or about 64,700,652 minutes, or about ∞ seconds.
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- Edmund Husserl (mathematician, philosopher, university teacher, born April 8, 1859)
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- Jean Prouvé (politician, artist, architect, designer, born April 8, 1901)
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- Jürgen Moltmann (university teacher, theologian, born April 8, 1926)
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- Walter Berry (singer, university teacher, opera singer, born April 8, 1929)
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- Larry Norman (singer, songwriter, composer, born April 8, 1947)
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8th of April 1898 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 8, 1898
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.; Inter-State Commerce Bill -- Hearing in Which Mr. Hines Objects to the Amendment.
Date: 09 April 1898
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND VIEWS; The Sacrifice of the Cross Unsuccessful to Insure the Peaceful Ordering of This World. MALIGNANT POWER OF SIN A Good Friday Sermon by the Vicar of St. Paul's Chapel, in Which a Moral Is Drawn from the Threatened War with Spain.
Date: 09 April 1898