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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 (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but later on May 15 confirms the discovery).
1702 - Anne becomes Queen of Great Britain.
1782 - In the Gnadenhutten massacre 93 Native Americans were killed.
1844 - King Oscar I accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway
1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1906 Moro Crater Massacre: US troops occupying the Philippines massacred 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, which would later trigger 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: American forces are attacked by Japanese troops 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.
1959 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery
1961 - Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes setting a new world record.
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 was 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.
1972 - The Goodyear blimp flies for the first time.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1983 - President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire.
1988 - Two United States Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky killing 17 servicemen.
1999 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh.
2004 - A new, democratically-founded constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
Births
1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, composer, not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1788)
1783 - Hannah Van Buren, would-be First Lady of the United States (d. 1819)
1827 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (d. 1875)
1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Supreme Court justice (d. 1935)
1856 - Tom Roberts, artist (d. 1931)
1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer (d. 1919)
1859 - Kenneth Grahame, author (d. 1932)
1872 - Anna Held, actress & singer, (d. 1918)
1879 - Otto Hahn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 (d. 1968)
1904 - Victor de Kowa, actor (d. 1973)
1908 or '09, '10 or '11 - Claire Trevor, actress (d. 2000)
1911 - Alan Hovhaness, composer
1912 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1915 - Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, singer (d. 1979)
1921 - Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer
1922 - Heinar Kipphardt, dramatist, lyricist, narrator (d. 1922)
1923 - Walter Jens, writer
1931 - John McPhee, writer
1939 - Robert Tear, Welsh tenor
1943 - Lynn Redgrave, actress
1945 - Jim Chapman, American politician
1945 - Micky Dolenz, actor, director, musician ("The Monkees")
1945 - Anselm Kiefer, painter
1946 - Randy Meisner, musician ("The Eagles")
1947 - Carole Bayer Sager, composer
1957 - Cynthia Rothrock, actress and martial artist
1958 - Gary Numan, singer
1959 - Aidan Quinn, actor
1961 - Camryn Manheim, actress (The Practice)
1970 - Jason Elam, American football player
1972 - Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player
1976 - Gareth Coombes, musician ("Supergrass")
1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr., actor
1977 - James Van Der Beek, actor
Deaths
1144 - Pope Celestine II
1702 - King William III of England, (b. 1650)
1841 - King Charles XIV / Carl III of Sweden-Norway, (b. 1763)
1869 - Hector Berlioz, composer (b. 1803)
1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, (b. 1800)
1889 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer, (b. 1803)
1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States, (b. 1857)
1941 - Sherwood Anderson, author, (b. 1876)
1942 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player, (b. 1888)
1971 - Harold Lloyd, actor, (b. 1893)
1973 - Ron Pigpen McKernan of the Grateful Dead, (b. 1945)
1975 - George Stevens, director, producer, cinematographer, (b. 1904)
1983 - William Walton, composer, (b. 1902)
1988 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist, (b. 1918)
1992 - Red Callender, composer
1993 - Billy Eckstine, jazz musician, (b. 1914)
1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football star
1999 - Joe DiMaggio, Baseball Hall of Famer, (b. 1914)
2003 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor, (b. 1940)
2003 - Karen Morley, actress
Holidays and observances
Catholicism - Feast day of St John of God.
In many countries, it is International Women's Day
Ottawa declares this day Alanis Morissette Day, in honor of singer Alanis Morissette, but Morissette refused to accept this honor because March 8 was already International Women's Day
Albania - Mother's Day
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