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| March 8th, 2008 (March 08 2008) | Death | Carol Barnes, former ITV news presenter (born in 1944) | |
| March 8th, 2007 (March 08 2007) | Death | John Inman, English actor (born in 1935) | |
| March 8th, 2007 (March 08 2007) | Death | Viky Vanita, Greek actress (born in 1948) | |
| March 8th, 2007 (March 08 2007) | Death | John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach.. (born in 1947) | |
| March 8th, 2006 (March 08 2006) | Death | Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (born in 1924) | |
| March 8th, 2005 (March 08 2005) | Death | Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (born in 1951) | |
| March 8th, 2005 (March 08 2005) | Death | Cesar Lattes, Brazilian physicist (born in 1924) | |
| March 8th, 2004 (March 08 2004) | Event | A new constitution is signed by Iraq s Governing Council. | |
| March 8th, 2004 (March 08 2004) | Death | Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (born in 1948) | |
| March 8th, 2004 (March 08 2004) | Death | Robert Pastorelli, American actor (born in 1954) | |
| March 8th, 2003 (March 08 2003) | Death | Adam Faith, English singer and actor (born in 1940) | |
| March 8th, 2003 (March 08 2003) | Death | Karen Morley, American actress (born in 1909) | |
| March 8th, 2001 (March 08 2001) | Death | Edward Winter, American actor (born in 1937) | |
| March 8th, 1999 (March 08 1999) | Event | The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. | |
| March 8th, 1999 (March 08 1999) | Death | Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (born in 1924) | |
| March 8th, 1999 (March 08 1999) | Death | Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (born in 1914) | |
| March 8th, 1999 (March 08 1999) | Death | Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinean writer (b.1914) | |
| March 8th, 1998 (March 08 1998) | Death | Ray Nitschke, American football player (born in 1936) | |
| March 8th, 1996 (March 08 1996) | Birth | Lorna Fitzgerald, English actress | |
| March 8th, 1995 (March 08 1995) | Death | Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (born in 1965) | |
| March 8th, 1993 (March 08 1993) | Death | Billy Eckstine, American musician (born in 1914) | |
| March 8th, 1992 (March 08 1992) | Birth | Charlie Ray, American actress | |
| March 8th, 1991 (March 08 1991) | Event | The first U.S. troops arrive home from the Gulf War; Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and two American soldiers it had captured. | |
| March 8th, 1991 (March 08 1991) | Birth | Devon Werkheiser, American actor | Devo Quotes |
| March 8th, 1990 (March 08 1990) | Birth | Ben Tozer, English footballer | |
| March 8th, 1988 (March 08 1988) | Birth | Armanti Edwards, American college football player | |
| March 8th, 1988 (March 08 1988) | Death | Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (born in 1961) | |
| March 8th, 1988 (March 08 1988) | Death | Werner Hartmann, German physicist (born in 1912) | |
| March 8th, 1988 (March 08 1988) | Death | Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (born in 1918) | |
| March 8th, 1985 (March 08 1985) | Event | A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in a car-bombing in Beirut kills 85 people and injures 175. | |
| March 8th, 1985 (March 08 1985) | Birth | Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and pop singer | |
| March 8th, 1985 (March 08 1985) | Death | Edward Andrews, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| March 8th, 1984 (March 08 1984) | Birth | Dave Moffatt, Canadian musician | |
| March 8th, 1983 (March 08 1983) | Event | President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire." | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| March 8th, 1983 (March 08 1983) | Event | The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses a nuclear weapons freeze with the Soviet Union, a move denounced by President Ronald Reagan. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| March 8th, 1983 (March 08 1983) | Birth | Mark Worrell, American baseball player. | |
| March 8th, 1983 (March 08 1983) | Death | William Walton, English composer (born in 1902) | |
| March 8th, 1982 (March 08 1982) | Birth | Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast | |
| March 8th, 1982 (March 08 1982) | Birth | Kat Von D, Mexican-American tattoo artist | |
| March 8th, 1982 (March 08 1982) | Birth | Nicolas Armindo, race car driver | |
| March 8th, 1982 (March 08 1982) | Birth | Leonidas Kabantais, Greek footballer | |
| March 8th, 1982 (March 08 1982) | Birth | Craig Stansberry, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1981 (March 08 1981) | Birth | Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer | |
| March 8th, 1981 (March 08 1981) | Birth | Jessica Jaymes, American porn actress | |
| March 8th, 1981 (March 08 1981) | Birth | Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (died in 2005) | |
| March 8th, 1980 (March 08 1980) | Event | The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union. | |
| March 8th, 1979 (March 08 1979) | Event | The first extraterrestrial volcano is discovered on Io, a satellite of the planet Jupiter. | |
| March 8th, 1979 (March 08 1979) | Birth | Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane) | |
| March 8th, 1979 (March 08 1979) | Birth | Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go) | |
| March 8th, 1978 (March 08 1978) | Birth | Nick Zano, American actor | |
| March 8th, 1977 (March 08 1977) | Birth | James Van Der Beek, American actor | |
| March 8th, 1977 (March 08 1977) | Birth | Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer | |
| March 8th, 1976 (March 08 1976) | Birth | Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass) | |
| March 8th, 1976 (March 08 1976) | Birth | Juan Encarnacion, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1976 (March 08 1976) | Birth | Ryan Freel, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1976 (March 08 1976) | Birth | Hines Ward, American football player | |
| March 8th, 1976 (March 08 1976) | Birth | Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor | |
| March 8th, 1976 (March 08 1976) | Death | Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (born in 1908) | |
| March 8th, 1975 (March 08 1975) | Birth | Fardeen Khan, Indian actor | |
| March 8th, 1975 (March 08 1975) | Birth | Peggy Zina, Greek singer | |
| March 8th, 1975 (March 08 1975) | Death | George Stevens, American director (born in 1904) | |
| March 8th, 1974 (March 08 1974) | Event | Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| March 8th, 1974 (March 08 1974) | Birth | Mike Moriarty, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1973 (March 08 1973) | Birth | Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering) | |
| March 8th, 1973 (March 08 1973) | Birth | Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model | |
| March 8th, 1973 (March 08 1973) | Birth | Kurt Mollekens, Belgian racing car driver | |
| March 8th, 1973 (March 08 1973) | Birth | Justin Thompson, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1973 (March 08 1973) | Birth | Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1973 (March 08 1973) | Death | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (born in 1945) | |
| March 8th, 1972 (March 08 1972) | Birth | Angie Hart, Australian pop singer | |
| March 8th, 1972 (March 08 1972) | Birth | Fergal O Brien, Irish snooker player | |
| March 8th, 1972 (March 08 1972) | Birth | Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer | |
| March 8th, 1972 (March 08 1972) | Death | Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (born in 1899) | Erich von dem Bach Quotes |
| March 8th, 1971 (March 08 1971) | Event | Joe Frazier becomes the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion by winning a unanimous 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in New York City. | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| March 8th, 1971 (March 08 1971) | Birth | Kit Symons, Welsh footballer | |
| March 8th, 1971 (March 08 1971) | Death | Harold Lloyd, American actor (born in 1893) | |
| March 8th, 1970 (March 08 1970) | Birth | Jason Elam, American football player | |
| March 8th, 1969 (March 08 1969) | Birth | Andrea Parker, American actress, ballet dancer | |
| March 8th, 1968 (March 08 1968) | Birth | Michael Bartels, German race car driver | |
| March 8th, 1968 (March 08 1968) | Birth | Ellen Forney, American cartoonist | |
| March 8th, 1968 (March 08 1968) | Birth | Shawn Mullins, American musician | |
| March 8th, 1968 (March 08 1968) | Birth | Jim Dougherty, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1967 (March 08 1967) | Birth | Joel Johnston, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1966 (March 08 1966) | Event | Vietnam War: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam. | |
| March 8th, 1966 (March 08 1966) | Event | A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson s Pillar in Dublin. | |
| March 8th, 1965 (March 08 1965) | Event | Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam. | |
| March 8th, 1965 (March 08 1965) | Birth | Fatima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer | |
| March 8th, 1964 (March 08 1964) | Birth | Lance McCullers, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1964 (March 08 1964) | Birth | Thomas Bezucha, American screenwriter and director | |
| March 8th, 1963 (March 08 1963) | Event | The Ba ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d etat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command. | |
| March 8th, 1963 (March 08 1963) | Birth | Lorelei, American fetish model and photographer | |
| March 8th, 1963 (March 08 1963) | Birth | Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| March 8th, 1961 (March 08 1961) | Birth | Camryn Manheim, American actress | |
| March 8th, 1961 (March 08 1961) | Birth | Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| March 8th, 1961 (March 08 1961) | Birth | Mark Salas, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1961 (March 08 1961) | Death | Thomas Beecham, English conductor (born in 1879) | Thomas Beecham Quotes |
| March 8th, 1960 (March 08 1960) | Birth | Max Metzker, Australian swimmer | |
| March 8th, 1959 (March 08 1959) | Birth | Aidan Quinn, American actor | |
| March 8th, 1958 (March 08 1958) | Birth | Gary Numan, British singer | |
| March 8th, 1958 (March 08 1958) | Birth | Nick Capra, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1957 (March 08 1957) | Event | Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. | |
| March 8th, 1957 (March 08 1957) | Event | The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia. | |
| March 8th, 1957 (March 08 1957) | Birth | Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden) | |
| March 8th, 1957 (March 08 1957) | Birth | Cynthia Rothrock, American actress | |
| March 8th, 1957 (March 08 1957) | Birth | Bob Stoddard, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1957 (March 08 1957) | Birth | John Butcher, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1956 (March 08 1956) | Birth | John Kapelos, Canadian actor | |
| March 8th, 1956 (March 08 1956) | Birth | Laurie Cunningham, English former footballer (died in 1989) | |
| March 8th, 1955 (March 08 1955) | Birth | Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 1981) | |
| March 8th, 1954 (March 08 1954) | Birth | Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz) | |
| March 8th, 1954 (March 08 1954) | Birth | David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer | |
| March 8th, 1953 (March 08 1953) | Birth | Bob Brozman, American musician | |
| March 8th, 1953 (March 08 1953) | Birth | Jim Rice, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1953 (March 08 1953) | Birth | Don Werner, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1952 (March 08 1952) | Birth | George Felix Allen, American politician | |
| March 8th, 1949 (March 08 1949) | Birth | Karel Lismont, Belgian athlete | |
| March 8th, 1948 (March 08 1948) | Birth | Peggy March, American pop singer | |
| March 8th, 1947 (March 08 1947) | Birth | Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night) | |
| March 8th, 1947 (March 08 1947) | Birth | Carole Bayer Sager, American composer | |
| March 8th, 1947 (March 08 1947) | Birth | Florentino Perez, Spanish football executive | |
| March 8th, 1946 (March 08 1946) | Birth | Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles) | |
| March 8th, 1945 (March 08 1945) | Event | Allied forces move large numbers of troops across the Rhine River to significantly reinforce and expand their tenuous hold on the captured Ludendorff Bridge (Bridge at Remagen), allowing them to push armor across the river and better secure the nascent lodgement. | |
| March 8th, 1945 (March 08 1945) | Birth | Bruce Broughton, American composer | |
| March 8th, 1945 (March 08 1945) | Birth | Jim Chapman, American politician | |
| March 8th, 1945 (March 08 1945) | Birth | Anselm Kiefer, German painter | |
| March 8th, 1945 (March 08 1945) | Birth | Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees) | |
| March 8th, 1944 (March 08 1944) | Birth | Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader | |
| March 8th, 1944 (March 08 1944) | Birth | Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer | |
| March 8th, 1944 (March 08 1944) | Birth | Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist | |
| March 8th, 1944 (March 08 1944) | Birth | Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor | |
| March 8th, 1943 (March 08 1943) | Event | World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days. | |
| March 8th, 1943 (March 08 1943) | Birth | Lynn Redgrave, English actress | |
| March 8th, 1942 (March 08 1942) | Event | World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java. | |
| March 8th, 1942 (March 08 1942) | Event | World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma. | |
| March 8th, 1942 (March 08 1942) | Event | World War II: British bombers begin a new style of air raid, using incendiary bombs to light the way for a nighttime attack on the Krupp armament works in Essen. The long series of attacks reduce the city to ruins. | |
| March 8th, 1942 (March 08 1942) | Birth | Ann Packer, British athlete | |
| March 8th, 1942 (March 08 1942) | Birth | Dick Allen, American baseball player | |
| March 8th, 1942 (March 08 1942) | Death | Jose Raul Capablanca, Cuban chess player (born in 1888) | |
| March 8th, 1941 (March 08 1941) | Birth | Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (died in 1987) | |
| March 8th, 1941 (March 08 1941) | Death | Sherwood Anderson, American author (born in 1876) | |
| March 8th, 1940 (March 08 1940) | Birth | Susan Clark, Canadian actress | |
| March 8th, 1939 (March 08 1939) | Birth | Jim Bouton, American baseball player and author | |
| March 8th, 1939 (March 08 1939) | Birth | Lidia Skoblikova, Russian skater | |
| March 8th, 1939 (March 08 1939) | Birth | Robert Tear, Welsh tenor | |
| March 8th, 1938 (March 08 1938) | Birth | Pete Dawkins, American football player | |
| March 8th, 1937 (March 08 1937) | Birth | Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (died in 1994) | Juvenal Quotes |
| March 8th, 1937 (March 08 1937) | Death | Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1902) | |
| March 8th, 1936 (March 08 1936) | Event | The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida. | |
| March 8th, 1936 (March 08 1936) | Birth | Gabor Szabo, Hungarian guitarist (died in 1982) | |
| March 8th, 1934 (March 08 1934) | Event | A photograph by astronomer Edwin Hubble shows there are as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way. | |
| March 8th, 1934 (March 08 1934) | Birth | Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d.2006) | |
| March 8th, 1933 (March 08 1933) | Birth | Luca Ronconi, Italian actor, theater and opera director | |
| March 8th, 1931 (March 08 1931) | Birth | John McPhee, American writer and professor | |
| March 8th, 1931 (March 08 1931) | Birth | Neil Postman, American cultural critic (died in 2003) | |
| March 8th, 1930 (March 08 1930) | Event | Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India. | Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| March 8th, 1930 (March 08 1930) | Birth | Bob Grim, American baseball player (died in 1996) | |
| March 8th, 1930 (March 08 1930) | Death | William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (born in 1857) | |
| March 8th, 1930 (March 08 1930) | Death | Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (born in 1865) | |
| March 8th, 1927 (March 08 1927) | Birth | Dick Hyman, American pianist, conductor, and composer | |
| March 8th, 1926 (March 08 1926) | Birth | Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (died in 2001) | |
| March 8th, 1925 (March 08 1925) | Birth | Warren Bennis, American educator and author | |
| March 8th, 1924 (March 08 1924) | Event | The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. | |
| March 8th, 1923 (March 08 1923) | Death | Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1837) | |
| March 8th, 1923 (March 08 1923) | Death | Krisjanis Barons, Latvian writer (born in 1835) | |
| March 8th, 1922 (March 08 1922) | Birth | Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (died in 2008) | |
| March 8th, 1922 (March 08 1922) | Birth | Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Mangaka | |
| March 8th, 1922 (March 08 1922) | Birth | Carl Furillo, American baseball player (died in 1989) | |
| March 8th, 1922 (March 08 1922) | Birth | Ralph Baer, Creator of the first video game console | |
| March 8th, 1921 (March 08 1921) | Event | Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid. | |
| March 8th, 1921 (March 08 1921) | Birth | Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (died in 1990) | |
| March 8th, 1920 (March 08 1920) | Birth | Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (died in 1985) | |
| March 8th, 1918 (March 08 1918) | Event | The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic. | |
| March 8th, 1917 (March 08 1917) | Event | Riots and strikes break out in St. Petersburg, Russia, marking the start of the Russian Revolution. | |
| March 8th, 1917 (March 08 1917) | Event | The U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. | |
| March 8th, 1917 (March 08 1917) | Death | Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (born in 1838) | |
| March 8th, 1916 (March 08 1916) | Birth | John Seybold, American economist and computer typesetting pioneer (died in 2004) | |
| March 8th, 1915 (March 08 1915) | Birth | Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (died in 1979) | |
| March 8th, 1914 (March 08 1914) | Birth | Yakov Borisovich Zel dovich, Russian physicist (died in 1987) | |
| March 8th, 1913 (March 08 1913) | Event | The Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect federal income taxes, as provided for under the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Federal income taxes had previously been collected from 1864-1872. | Ovid Quotes |
| March 8th, 1912 (March 08 1912) | Birth | Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (died in 2003) | |
| March 8th, 1911 (March 08 1911) | Event | International Women s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. | |
| March 8th, 1911 (March 08 1911) | Birth | Alan Hovhaness, American composer (died in 2000) | |
| March 8th, 1910 (March 08 1910) | Birth | Bernard Benjamin, statistician, actuary and demographer (died in 2002) | |
| March 8th, 1910 (March 08 1910) | Birth | Claire Trevor, American actress (died in 2000) | |
| March 8th, 1907 (March 08 1907) | Birth | Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician, President of Greece (died in 1998) | |
| March 8th, 1902 (March 08 1902) | Birth | Louise Beavers, American actress (died in 1962) | |
| March 8th, 1902 (March 08 1902) | Birth | Jennings Randolph, U.S. Senator from West Virginia (died in 1998) | |
| March 8th, 1899 (March 08 1899) | Birth | Elmer Keith, Firearms enthusiast and Author (died in 1984) | |
| March 8th, 1896 (March 08 1896) | Birth | Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (died in 1975) | |
| March 8th, 1894 (March 08 1894) | Event | The state of New York enacts the nation s first dog-licensing law. | |
| March 8th, 1892 (March 08 1892) | Birth | Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (died in 1966) | |
| March 8th, 1891 (March 08 1891) | Birth | Sam Jaffe, American actor (died in 1984) | |
| March 8th, 1889 (March 08 1889) | Death | John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (born in 1803) | |
| March 8th, 1887 (March 08 1887) | Death | Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (born in 1813) | Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| March 8th, 1887 (March 08 1887) | Death | James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (born in 1820) | James Buchanan Quotes |
| March 8th, 1886 (March 08 1886) | Birth | Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died in 1972) | |
| March 8th, 1884 (March 08 1884) | Event | Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony s argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women s suffrage amendment. | Susan B. Anthony Quotes |
| March 8th, 1879 (March 08 1879) | Birth | Otto Hahn, German Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1968) | |
| March 8th, 1874 (March 08 1874) | Death | Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (born in 1800) | Millard Fillmore Quotes |
| March 8th, 1872 (March 08 1872) | Birth | Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (died in 1918) | |
| March 8th, 1872 (March 08 1872) | Death | Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (born in 1815) | |
| March 8th, 1869 (March 08 1869) | Death | Hector Berlioz, French composer (born in 1803) | |
| March 8th, 1865 (March 08 1865) | Birth | Frederic Goudy, American type designer (died in 1947) | |
| March 8th, 1862 (March 08 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia. | |
| March 8th, 1861 (March 08 1861) | Event | St. Augustine, Florida, surrenders to Union forces. | |
| March 8th, 1859 (March 08 1859) | Birth | Kenneth Grahame, English author (died in 1932) | Kenneth Grahame Quotes |
| March 8th, 1856 (March 08 1856) | Birth | Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (died in 1929) | |
| March 8th, 1856 (March 08 1856) | Birth | Tom Roberts, Australian artist (died in 1931) | |
| March 8th, 1855 (March 08 1855) | Death | William Poole, Infamous member of New York City s Bowery Boys gang (born in 1821) | |
| March 8th, 1854 (March 08 1854) | Event | U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry makes his second landing in Japan, where he would conclude a treaty with the Japanese within a month. | |
| March 8th, 1844 (March 08 1844) | Event | King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway. | |
| March 8th, 1844 (March 08 1844) | Death | Charles XIV John of Sweden (born in 1763) | |
| March 8th, 1841 (March 08 1841) | Birth | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died in 1935) | |
| March 8th, 1830 (March 08 1830) | Birth | Joao de Deus, Portuguese poet (died in 1896) | |
| March 8th, 1827 (March 08 1827) | Birth | Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (died in 1875) | |
| March 8th, 1822 (March 08 1822) | Birth | Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (died in 1882) | |
| March 8th, 1819 (March 08 1819) | Death | Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (born in 1739) | |
| March 8th, 1817 (March 08 1817) | Event | The New York Stock Exchange is founded. | |
| March 8th, 1814 (March 08 1814) | Birth | Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (died in 1878) | |
| March 8th, 1799 (March 08 1799) | Birth | Simon Cameron, U.S. Secretary of War (died in 1889) | |
| March 8th, 1783 (March 08 1783) | Birth | Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (died in 1819) | Martin Van Buren Quotes |
| March 8th, 1782 (March 08 1782) | Event | Gnadenhutten massacre: Some 90 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity were killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians. | |
| March 8th, 1775 (March 08 1775) | Event | Thomas Paine s African Slavery in America was publishedied in It was the first article in the United States calling for the emancipation of all slaves and the abolition of slavery. | Thomas Paine Quotes |
| March 8th, 1771 (March 08 1771) | Death | Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (born in 1688) | |
| March 8th, 1765 (March 08 1765) | Event | The British House of Lords passes the Stamp Act to tax the American colonies. | |
| March 8th, 1757 (March 08 1757) | Death | Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (born in 1701) | |
| March 8th, 1748 (March 08 1748) | Birth | William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic | |
| March 8th, 1746 (March 08 1746) | Birth | Andre Michaux, French botanist (died in 1802) | |
| March 8th, 1731 (March 08 1731) | Death | Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (born in 1688) | |
| March 8th, 1726 (March 08 1726) | Birth | Richard Howe, British admiral (died in 1799) | |
| March 8th, 1714 (March 08 1714) | Birth | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (died in 1788) | |
| March 8th, 1712 (March 08 1712) | Birth | John Fothergill, English physician (died in 1780) | |
| March 8th, 1702 (March 08 1702) | Event | Anne Stuart, the sister of the childless Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the death of William III of Orange. | |
| March 8th, 1702 (March 08 1702) | Death | William III of England (born in 1650) | |
| March 8th, 1700 (March 08 1700) | Birth | Anne Bonny Irish-American pirate (died in 1782) | |
| March 8th, 1674 (March 08 1674) | Death | Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (born in 1597) | |
| March 8th, 1659 (March 08 1659) | Birth | Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (died in 1738) | |
| March 8th, 1641 (March 08 1641) | Death | Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (born in 1587) | |
| March 8th, 1618 (March 08 1618) | Event | Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. | |
| March 8th, 1560 (March 08 1560) | Birth | Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (died in 1613) | |
| March 8th, 1550 (March 08 1550) | Death | Saint John of God, a saint (born in 1495) | |
| March 8th, 1514 (March 08 1514) | Birth | Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (died in 1562) | |
| March 8th, 1495 (March 08 1495) | Birth | John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (died in 1550) | |
| March 8th, 1293 (March 08 1293) | Birth | Beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (died in 1359) | |
| March 8th, 1286 (March 08 1286) | Birth | John III, Duke of Brittany (died in 1341) | |
| March 8th, 1223 (March 08 1223) | Death | Wincenty Kadlubek, Polish chronicler (born in 1161) | |
| March 8th, 1202 (March 08 1202) | Death | Sverre of Norway | |
| March 8th, 1144 (March 08 1144) | Death | Pope Celestine II | |
| March 8th, 1126 (March 08 1126) | Death | Urraca of Castile (born in 1082) | |
