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MARCH 8
- See also International Women's Day
March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining.
Events
- 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
- 1702 - Very unexpectedly, Anne Stuart, the sister of the childless Mary II, becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland after the death of William III of Orange.
- 1782 - Gnadenhütten massacre: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio had their skulls crushed with a mallet by Pennsylvanian militiamen.
- 1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- 1884 - Susan B. Anthony testifies before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.
- 1899 - Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899, prequel for Eintracht Frankfurt is founded
- 1906 - Moro Crater Massacre: U.S. troops occupying the Philippines massacre about 600 men, women and children taking refuge in a crater.
- 1911 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time.
- 1917 - The February Revolution breaks out in Russia (February 23 O.S.).
- 1917 - The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters.
- 1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating pandemic.
- 1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- 1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
- 1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
- 1942 - World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
- 1943 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
- 1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
- 1950 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
- 1952 - Antoine Pinay becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1957 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
- 1966 - Vietnam War: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam.
- 1966 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
- 1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in the first of three epic bouts. Frazier defends the world Heavyweight title in a star-studded Madison Square Garden.
- 1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- 1983 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire.
- 1985 - A car-bombing in Beirut in front of the mosque kills 85 people and injures 175.
- 1999 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh.
- 2000 - A collision between two Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people.
- 2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
- 2005 - Large pro-Syrian rally in Riad Al Solh square in Beirut mainly organized by Hezbollah.
Births
- 1286 - John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
- 1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
- 1545 - Yi Sun Sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
- 1560 - Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)
- 1659 - Isaac de Beausobre, French protestant pastor (d. 1738)
- 1712 - John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
- 1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
- 1726 - Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)
- 1746 - André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
- 1748 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic
- 1799 - Simon Cameron, U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889)
- 1814 - Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
- 1822 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)
- 1827 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
- 1830 - João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)
- 1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1935)
- 1856 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)
- 1856 - Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)
- 1859 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932)
- 1865 - Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)
- 1872 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (d. 1918)
- 1879 - Otto Hahn, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1886 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
- 1902 - Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)
- 1907 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
- 1909 - Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)
- 1912 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
- 1914 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
- 1915 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)
- 1916 - John Seybold, American economist and computer typesetting pioneer (d. 2004)
- 1918 - Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
- 1921 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
- 1922 - Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and mangaka
- 1925 - Warren Bennis, American educator and author
- 1927 - Dick Hyman, American pianist, conductor, and composer
- 1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)
- 1930 - Bob Grim, baseball player (d. 1996)
- 1931 - John McPhee, American writer and professor
- 1931 - Neil Postman, American cultural critic
- 1936 - Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982)
- 1937 - Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
- 1938 - Pete Dawkins, American football player
- 1939 - Jim Bouton, baseball player, author, and entrepreneur
- 1939 - Lidia Skoblikova, Russian skater
- 1939 - Robert Tear, Welsh tenor
- 1940 - Susan Clark, Canadian actress
- 1942 - Dick Allen, Baseball player
- 1943 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress
- 1944 - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
- 1944 - Pepé Romero, Spanish guitarist
- 1945 - Jim Chapman, American politician
- 1945 - Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)
- 1945 - Anselm Kiefer, German painter
- 1946 - Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)
- 1947 - Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night)
- 1947 - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
- 1952 - George Felix Allen, U.S. Senator from Virginia
- 1954 - Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
- 1954 - David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer
- 1956 - John Kapelos, Canadian actor
- 1957 - Cynthia Rothrock, American actress and martial artist
- 1958 - Gary Numan, British singer
- 1959 - Aidan Quinn, American actor
- 1961 - Camryn Manheim, American actress
- 1961 - Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 - Kathy Ireland, American model and actress
- 1963 - Lorelei, American fetish model, photographer
- 1965 - Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
- 1968 - Michael Bartels, German race car driver
- 1968 - Shawn Mullins, American musician
- 1969 - Andrea Parker, American actress, ballet dancer
- 1970 - Jason Elam, American football player
- 1972 - Angie Hart, Australian pop singer
- 1972 - Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player
- 1973 - Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model
- 1976 - Hines Ward, American football player
- 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
- 1976 - Juan Encarnacion, baseball player
- 1976 - Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass)
- 1977 - James Van Der Beek, American actor
- 1977 - Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
- 1979 - Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
- 1979 - Nick Zano, American Actor
- 1981 - Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
- 1983 - Charles Coventry, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1991 - Devon Werkheiser, American actor
- 1992 - Charlie Ray, American actress
Deaths
- 1126 - Queen Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)
- 1144 - Pope Celestine II
- 1202 - King Sverre of Norway
- 1223 - Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
- 1641 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
- 1674 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
- 1702 - King William III of England (b. 1650)
- 1731 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
- 1757 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
- 1771 - Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
- 1844 - King Charles XIV of Sweden, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, French Napoleonic general (b. 1763)
- 1869 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
- 1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
- 1887 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813)
- 1887 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (b. 1820)
- 1889 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (b. 1803)
- 1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
- 1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1857)
- 1941 - Sherwood Anderson, American author, (b. 1876)
- 1942 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
- 1961 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
- 1971 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)
- 1972 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (b. 1899)
- 1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
- 1975 - George Stevens, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1904)
- 1976 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
- 1983 - William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
- 1985 - Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1988 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961)
- 1988 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
- 1993 - Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
- 1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
- 1999 - Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
- 1999 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (b. 1914)
- 2001 - Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
- 2003 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
- 2003 - Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2004 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
- 2005 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)
- 2005 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances
Liturgical feasts
External links
March 7 - March 9 - February 8 - April 8 -- listing of all days
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