I have decided to do a fun little weekly blog post every monday,entitled 'On This Day in History'. It came to be because I have a history class at this time, and it's really not my fancy,in fact it's pretty grueling. So to have some fun in the morning, and to smite my history teacher (who actually is really nice, I'm just being over-dramatic).

I'm going to throw up some historical events that I think seem pretty relevant to western culture,or I just find them cool. Here are some events that happened today on April 8th.

-2004, Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by Sudanese government and two rebel groups.

-1832 ,Black Hawk War: Nearly 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.

-1892 :Mary Pickford was born today. (d. 1979)

- 1908:Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.

-1987:Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.