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Events on Monday 8 April 2024 2
1929 – 2024Peter Higgs (1929-2024)Died 8 April 2024, aged 94British physicist awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for predicting the particle that bears his name.
2024Total solar eclipse crosses North AmericaTotality from Mexico through the United States to CanadaA total solar eclipse crossed North America on 8 April 2024, with the path of totality running from Mexico through Texas and the Midwest into eastern Canada. It was the last such eclipse over the contiguous United States until 2044.