Event:
The release of 1.7 million U.S diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973-1976 when Henry Kissinger was U.S. Secretary of State were released by Wikileaks; Julian Assange worked on the project inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
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
