March 8

Events

Pre-1600

* 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''.
*1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
* 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg.
* 1558 – The city of Pori ( sv, Björneborg) was founded by Duke John on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia.

1601–1900

* 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden.
* 1702 – Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
* 1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad.
*1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
* 1782 – Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity, are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
* 1801 – War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
*1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
* 1844 – The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, was reopened after 45 years of closure.
* 1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.

1901–present

*1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
* 1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
* 1917 – International Women's Day protests in Petrograd mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23 in the Julian calendar).
* 1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
*1921 – Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while on his way home from the parliament building in Madrid.
*1924 – A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
* 1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
*1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
* 1942 – World War II: The Dutch East Indies surrender Java to the Imperial Japanese Army
* 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
* 1950 – The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production.
* 1963 – The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état
*1965 – Vietnam War: US Marines arrive at Da Nang.
*1966 – Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
* 1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
* 1979 – Images taken by Voyager I proved the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter.
* 1983 – Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an " evil empire".
*1985 – A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 56 and injures 180 others.
*2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
*2014 – In one of aviation's greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The fate of the flight remains unknown.
* 2017 – The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapses in stormy weather.
*2018 – The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) was held being International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then annually held across Pakistan and feminist slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi ( My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence came into vogue in Pakistan.
*2021 – International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone.

Births

Pre-1600

*1495 – John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (d. 1550)

1601–1900

*1712 – John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (d. 1780)
* 1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1788)
* 1726 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician, Treasurer of the Navy (d. 1799)
*1746 – André Michaux, French botanist and explorer (d. 1802)
* 1748 – William V, Prince of Orange (d. 1806)
* 1761 – Jan Potocki, Polish ethnologist, historian, linguist, and author (d. 1815)
* 1799 – Simon Cameron, American journalist and politician, United States Secretary of War (d. 1889)
*1804 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer and optician (d. 1887)
* 1822 – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp (d. 1882)
* 1827 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (d. 1875)
*1830 – João de Deus, Portuguese poet and educator (d. 1896)
* 1836 – Harriet Samuel, English businesswoman and founder the jewellery retailer H. Samuel (d. 1908)
* 1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., American lawyer and jurist (d. 1935)
*1851 – Frank Avery Hutchins, American librarian and educator (d. 1914)
*1856 – Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)
* 1856 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic (d. 1937)
* 1858 – Ida Hunt Udall, American diarist and homesteader (d. 1915)
* 1859 – Kenneth Grahame, British author (d. 1932)
*1865 – Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)
*1879 – Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
* 1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
* 1892 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet and author (d. 1979)
* 1896 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (d. 1975)

1901–present

* 1902 – Louise Beavers, American actress and singer (d. 1962)
* 1902 – Jennings Randolph, American journalist and politician (d. 1998)
* 1907 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, President of Greece (d. 1998)
* 1909 – Beatrice Shilling, English motorcycle racer and engineer (d. 1990)
*1910 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
*1911 – Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (d. 2000)
*1912 – Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
* 1912 – Meldrim Thomson Jr., American publisher and politician, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 2001)
* 1914 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian-Russian physicist and astronomer (d. 1987)
*1918 – Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress (d. 2008)
*1921 – Alan Hale Jr., American actor and restaurateur (d. 1990)
*1922 – Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (d. 2014)
* 1922 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
* 1922 – Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989)
* 1922 – Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 2015)
*1924 – Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator (d. 2013)
* 1924 – Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and director (d. 2003)
* 1924 – Addie L. Wyatt, American civil rights activist and labor leader (d. 2012)
* 1925 – Warren Bennis

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