David Prashker's Book Of Days: April 8

1857, 1920

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Mangal Pandey, who led Phase 1 of the Rebellion against English conquest and imperialism on March 29 1957. Phase 2, on May 10 of the same year, is the one remembered as the Indian Mutiny, but Pandey was already dead, arrested on the day of the rebellion, hanged today.

1820: Venus de Milo discovered, on the Greek island of Melos as it happens, and not by some trained archaeologist in search of a career-improvement, but stumbled on by a farmer named Yorgos Kentrotas, who kind of sort of thought it might be the best harvest his farm had ever yielded, so he went in search of someone to assist him, and found a French naval officer, one Olivier Voutier, who did all the necessaries to find a permanent plynth for Aphrodite in the Louvre in Paris.