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| March 8th, 2006 (March 08 2006) | Death | Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (born in 1924) |  | 
| March 8th, 1996 (March 08 1996) | Birth | Lorna Fitzgerald, English actress |  | 
| 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, 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, 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, 1946 (March 08 1946) | Birth | Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles) |  | 
| 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, 1926 (March 08 1926) | Birth | Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (died in 2001) |  | 
| March 8th, 1916 (March 08 1916) | Birth | John Seybold, American economist and computer typesetting pioneer (died in 2004) |  | 
| March 8th, 1896 (March 08 1896) | Birth | Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (died in 1975) |  | 
| 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, 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, 1746 (March 08 1746) | Birth | Andre Michaux, French botanist (died in 1802) |  | 
| March 8th, 1726 (March 08 1726) | Birth | Richard Howe, British admiral (died in 1799) |  | 
| March 8th, 1286 (March 08 1286) | Birth | John III, Duke of Brittany (died in 1341) |  | 
| March 8th, 1126 (March 08 1126) | Death | Urraca of Castile (born in 1082) |  |