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• ...that the free-floating fruit of Posidonia oceanica (pictured), a Mediterranean seagrass, is known as the "olive of the sea"?
• ...that the Financial Stability Forum consists of officials from ministries and central banks of a dozen countries, who coordinate international financial stability?
• ...that when Ahmad Said was appointed as Chief Minister of the Malaysian state Terengganu by King of Malaysia Mizan Zainal Abidin, it was against the wishes of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?
• ...that the economy of Omaha, Nebraska has expanded to embrace the burgeoning information technology sector since the city was labeled the "Motor Mouth City" by The New York Times?
• ...that the 1990 Strangeways Prison riot at 25 days was the longest British prison riot?
• ...that the Taipei Metro Xinbeitou Branch Line, consisting of two stations, was severely restricted due to complaints of noise pollution?
• ...that 16 of the 72 fiction authors with at least 100 million copies of their works in print did not write in English, and 16 of the 72 are women?
  

• Soyuz TMA-12 is launched towards the International Space Station, carrying Yi So-yeon, the first Korean in space.
• The Olympic torch relay is delayed and the flame extinguished by security officials as disruption from protestors continues in Paris.
• At its summit in Bucharest, NATO invites Albania and Croatia to join the alliance.
• Jules Verne (pictured), the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle, successfully performs a fully automated docking with the International Space Station.
• Greek and Turkish Cypriots open a crossing at Ledra Street, a main shopping street in Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus.
• The Movement for Democratic Change secures a plurality of seats in the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, defeating incumbent President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF. Results in the presidential election remain unclear.

April 8: Hanamatsuri in Japan.

• 217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla (bust pictured) was assassinated at a roadside near Harran.
• 1093 – Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire, one of the largest cathedrals in England, was dedicated by Bishop Walkelin.
• 1341 – Italian scholar and poet Petrarch took the title poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome.
• 1886 – British Prime Minister William Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• 1904 – France and the United Kingdom signed the entente cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.
• 1904 – British occultist and writer Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, a Holy Book in Thelema.
• 1929 – Indian independence movement: Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh with the help of Batukeshwar Dutt bombed the Central Assembly in Delhi.

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