Event:
German poet, Gunter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, is declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, 'What Must Be Said.'
More Notable Events on April 8:
1994 Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases
1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California
1935 Works Progress Administration, WPA, approved by Congress
1914 U.S. and Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone
1879 Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
