March 8 Events |
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| March 8th, 2004 (March 08 2004) | Event | A new constitution is signed by Iraq s Governing Council. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1974 (March 08 1974) | Event | Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. | Charles de Gaulle 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1936 (March 08 1936) | Event | The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida. | |
| 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, 1930 (March 08 1930) | Event | Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India. | Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| March 8th, 1924 (March 08 1924) | Event | The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. | |
| March 8th, 1921 (March 08 1921) | Event | Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1894 (March 08 1894) | Event | The state of New York enacts the nation s first dog-licensing law. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1817 (March 08 1817) | Event | The New York Stock Exchange is founded. | |
| 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, 1765 (March 08 1765) | Event | The British House of Lords passes the Stamp Act to tax the American colonies. | |
| 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, 1618 (March 08 1618) | Event | Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. | |
