Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 8
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Oscar I of Sweden
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Nelson's Pillar
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Protesters during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
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Raymonde de Laroche
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (the missing aircraft, 9M-MRO)
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Johannes Kepler
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Nader Shah
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Anne of Great Britain}
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Maya ruins at Copán
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| ; Mother's Day in various countries | refimprove section |
| 1010 – Persian poet Ferdowsi completed his masterpiece, the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran and related societies. | both: refimprove section |
| 1618 – German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion. | refimprove section |
| 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, died at the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhutten massacre. | refimprove section |
| 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange drafted its constitution. | Already featured on May 17 |
| 1844 – Oscar I acceded to the throne of Sweden-Norway. | refimprove section (Ancestry) |
| 1916 – First World War: A British force unsuccessfully attempted to relieve the Ottoman siege of Kut (in present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila. | refimprove |
| 1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut killed more than 80 people and injured almost 200 others. | synthesis |
| 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, prompting the most expensive search in aviation history. | needs more footnotes, outdated |
| Beatrice of Castile |b|1293| | Failed verification on birth date (year only in source). |
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- 1655 – The court of Northampton County, Virginia, issued a ruling that made John Casor the first person of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be declared a slave for life as a result of a civil suit.
- 1658 – After a devastating defeat in the Second Northern War, King Frederick III of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his Danish territory to Sweden to save the remainder.
- 1702 – Anne (pictured) became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding her brother-in-law William III.
- 1736 – Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.
- 1919 – During the Egyptian Revolution, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul and exiled him to Malta.
- 1924 – Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah, killed all 171 miners working there.
- 1978 – BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other formats.
- 1983 – Cold War: In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. president Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
- 2017 – The Azure Window, a limestone natural arch in Gozo, Malta, collapsed during a stor
- Born/died this day: | Pope Celestine II |d|1144| Simon Cameron |b|1799| Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge |d|1819| Frank Avery Hutchins |b|1851| Bramwell Booth |b|1856| Ida Hunt Udall |b|1858| Gladys Bustamante |b|1912| Panditrao Agashe |b|1936| Juvénal Habyarimana |b|1937| José Raúl Capablanca |d|1942| Petra Kvitová |b|1990|
March 8: International Women's Day; Aurat March in Pakistan
Io with two volcanic plumes
Io with two volcanic plumes
- 1576 – A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.
- 1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.
- 1963 – The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council for the Revolutionary Command.
- 1966 – Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar topped by a statue of Lord Nelson in Dublin, Ireland, was severely damaged by a bomb.
- 1979 – Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io (pictured), a moon of Jupiter.
- Adela of Normandy (d. 1137)
- Louie Nunn (b. 1924)
- Alfons Rebane (d. 1976)
- Haseeb Ahsan (d. 2013)