* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

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As of April 24, 2008, the average monthly salary is 75, 000 drams ( about $ 242 US dollars ).

On April 26, Matt Ryan ( quarterback from Boston College ) was drafted third overall in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Falcons.

On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

Combined Insurance was sold to ACE Limited in April 2008.

* Quick, Ben " The Boneyard " Orion Magazine, March / April 2008

Such a tax was in effect for some period of time, raising at least $ AU 290 million after April 2008.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

Burkina Faso recognized Kosovo on 24 April 2008.

In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

On 21 April 2008, BBC News 24 was renamed BBC News on the channel itself – but is referred to as the BBC News Channel on other BBC services.

Since 21 April 2008, the overnight bulletins, while produced by the BBC News Channel, have usually been broadcast from the studios of BBC World News.

In April 2008 Stephen Jones told a reporter, " I don't think I have a political bone in my body.

Prior to that Bernd Kellner computed B < sub > n </ sub > to full precision for n = 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > in December 2002 and Oleksandr Pavlyk for n = 10 < sup > 7 </ sup > with ' Mathematica ' in April 2008.

After general manager Marvin Milkes testified that the Pilots did not have enough money to pay the players, the bankruptcy judge granted the Pilots ' filing on April 1 and ruled the move to Milwaukee in order.

Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father at his home in Los Angeles on April 1, 1984, one day before what would have been his 45th birthday.

* April 14 – Marvin Miller, American baseball executive

* April 2 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( d. 1984 )

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

In April 1818, Stephen Marvin and his wife, Sarah Brown ( Sherwood ) Marvin, along with her mother, Deborah ( Burr ) Sherwood Moyer, arrived from Connecticut.

Marvin Gaye ( April 2, 1939April 1, 1984 ), born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., was an American singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned more than two decades.

Their son, Marvin, Jr., was born two years after that, on April 2, 1939.

Marvin is the grandfather of three boys including Marvin IV ( born April 1, 1995 ) and Nolan Pentz ( c. 1996 ).

A year following his death, Marion Barry, the then-mayor of Washington, D. C. declared April 2 ( Marvin's birthday ) as " Marvin Gaye Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund Day " in the city on a day after the anniversary of Gaye's death.

* April 1 – In Los Angeles, Marvin Gaye is shot and killed during an argument with his father.

* April 6-Sugar Ray Leonard beats Marvin Hagler for boxing's world Middleweight championship.

* April 15-The War: Marvin Hagler knocks out Thomas Hearns in three rounds to retain the world's Middleweight title.

On April 6, 1987, the day Sugar Ray Leonard defeated Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Curry filed a million dollar lawsuit against Leonard and his attorney Mike Trainer.

He was the father of musician Marvin Gaye and gained notoriety after shooting and killing him on April 1, 1984 following an argument at their Los Angeles home.

On April 2, 1939, their first son, Marvin Pentz, Jr. was born.

* April 15-The War, Marvin Hagler retains his undisputed world Middleweight championship with a three round knockout over Thomas Hearns in Las Vegas.

* April 6-In what is considered by many to be the greatest comeback in boxing history, Sugar Ray Leonard comes back after three and a half years without fighting to outpoint Marvin Hagler and win the undisputed world Middleweight championship in Las Vegas.

* April 22-Matthew Saad Muhammad wins the WBC world Light Heavyweight title with an eighth round knockout of WBC world champion Marvin Johnson in Indianapolis.

Two Wolverhampton men, Christopher Lewis and Marvin Walker, were found guilty of manslaughter on 25 April 2008 and sentenced to five and a half years in prison.

* Jean Seberg ( Marvin Hamlisch world première at the National Theatre ) 1 December 1983-4 April 1984

Falsettos, the combination of the latter two parts of his Marvin Trilogy ( March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland ), opened on Broadway at the John Golden Theater on April 29, 1992, and ran for 486 performances.