• On April 7, 1961, President John F. Kennedy sent a letter to Congress endorsing America’s participation in an international campaign to preserve ancient temples and historic monuments in Egypt’s Nile Valley. The campaign was initiated by UNESCO with the aim of saving sites threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
• On April 8, 1994, the body of grunge rocker Kurt Cobain was discovered at his home in Seattle by a workman. The heroin-addicted, troubled artist had died from a self-infl icted gunshot wound, leaving behind fellow rocker Courtney Love, his wife, who had reported him missing, and toddler daughter Frances Bean
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