Notable Historical Events on March 8th
March 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1586 |
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor |
1658 |
Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark |
1702 |
England: Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III |
1706 |
Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established |
1711 |
Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder |
1722 |
Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia |
1746 |
Duke of Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen |
1754 |
Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain |
1766 |
Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces |
1777 |
Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt. |
1782 |
Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians |
1801 |
British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt |
1813 |
1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic |
1817 |
The New York Stock Exchange is founded. |
1838 |
US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes) |
1844 |
King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway. |
1854 |
US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan |
1855 |
1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls |
1861 |
St Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies |
1862 |
Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal |
1862 |
Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched |
1862 |
Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor |
1865 |
Battle of Kingston, NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks) |
1867 |
The British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, and would serve as a constitution for Canada for the next 100 years |
1884 |
1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite |
1884 |
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. |
1887 |
Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes |
1894 |
The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law. |
1896 |
Volunteers of America forms (NYC) |
1898 |
Richard Straus' "Don Quixote" premieres in Keulen |
1900 |
NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville & Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee) |
1902 |
1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony |
1904 |
Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match |
1906 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games |
1908 |
Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY |
1910 |
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot |
1911 |
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. |
1913 |
Federal League organizes with 6 teams |
1913 |
Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes |
1915 |
1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned |
1916 |
US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime |
1918 |
The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic. |
1920 |
Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations |
1921 |
Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid. |
1924 |
Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah |
1927 |
Pan American Airlines incorporates |
1929 |
US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia |
1930 |
Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" |
1934 |
Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars |
1936 |
The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida. |
1939 |
Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait" premieres |
1941 |
1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies) |
1942 |
Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma |
1942 |
KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies |
1943 |
335 allied bombers attack German city of Nuremberg, a centre for military production |
1943 |
Limited gambling legalized in Mexico |
1943 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
1943 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn |
1944 |
US resumes bombing Berlin |
1945 |
"Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain |
1945 |
53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
1945 |
International Women's Day is 1st observed |
1945 |
Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign |
1946 |
1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC) |
1948 |
US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that relgious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional |
1949 |
WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting |
1950 |
1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters) |
1951 |
Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel) |
1952 |
Antoine Pinay forms French government |
1953 |
"Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 90 performances |
1953 |
Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years |
1953 |
KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
1953 |
WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Herb McKinley sets quarter mile record of 0:46.8 in Melbourne, Australia |
1957 |
1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston |
1957 |
Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships |
1957 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1958 |
Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita |
1958 |
William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters |
1959 |
Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together |
1959 |
KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
1959 |
Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq |
1960 |
"Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances |
1961 |
Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary" premieres in NYC |
1961 |
US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs |
1962 |
Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC) |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria |
1964 |
Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam |
1965 |
1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines) |
1966 |
"Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances |
1966 |
An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin |
1966 |
Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
1967 |
New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day) |
1968 |
6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Md) |
1968 |
Fillmore East opens |
1968 |
Students demonstrate in Warsaw |
1970 |
WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title at Madison Sq Garden |
1971 |
Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record) |
1971 |
Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" |
1971 |
Gun battle between Official Irish Republican Army and Provisional IRA leave 1 man was killed; the feud between the two wings of the IRA had been developing since the split in 1970 |
1972 |
1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) |
1972 |
1st flight of the Goodyear blimp |
1973 |
Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens |
1973 |
Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis |
1973 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1973 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country |
1974 |
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France |
1975 |
Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba |
1976 |
1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China |
1977 |
Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia |
1977 |
Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter) |
1978 |
The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4. |
1979 |
1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io) |
1979 |
China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam |
1979 |
Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale |
1980 |
6th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds & Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Carol Burnett win (TV) |
1980 |
Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad |
1980 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980 |
The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union. |
1981 |
"Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 54 perfs |
1981 |
Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game |
1981 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic |
1983 |
House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR |
1983 |
IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 |
1983 |
President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire" |
1985 |
Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS) |
1986 |
4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon |
1986 |
Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km |
1986 |
Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million |
1987 |
17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425 |
1987 |
David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust |
1987 |
FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in Calif |
1987 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic |
1987 |
Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor |
1987 |
"A Team" last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years |
1989 |
"Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances |
1989 |
Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs) |
1990 |
NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco |
1991 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1991 |
Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured |
1992 |
22nd Easter Seal Telethon |
1992 |
Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
1993 |
Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion |
1993 |
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder |
1994 |
20th People's Choice Awards: Tom Cruise & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Roseanne Arnold win (TV) |
1994 |
B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed |
1994 |
US Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces |
1994 |
Train accident at Pinetown, Natal, kills 47 |
1995 |
-26°F (-32.2°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota |
1995 |
-44°F (-42.2°C) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67°N |
1995 |
Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece |
1995 |
Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections |
1997 |
11th Soul Train Music Awards: Curtis Mayfield, Babyface win |
1998 |
The Screen Actors Guild award Gloria Stuart (Old Rose in "Titanic") with their Founders Award |
1999 |
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. |
2004 |
A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council. |
2012 |
Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders |
2012 |
Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns |
2013 |
North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea |
2014 |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history |
2016 |
Nike, TAG Heuer, Porsche suspend ties with Sharapova |
2016 |
South Korea announces unilateral sanctions on North Korea |
2016 |
UN says wary of any mass return of refugees under EU-Turkey deal |
2016 |
Drug in Sharapova doping case used by Soviet troops in 1980s |
2016 |
North Korea's Kim says country has miniaturised nuclear warhead |
2016 |
Palestinian kills US tourist in stabbing spree on Tel Aviv boardwalk |
2017 |
Dirk Nowitzki Becomes First International Player to Reach 30000 points in NBA |
2017 |
At Least 4 Killed as Train Barrels Into Charter Bus in Biloxi |
2017 |
Chance the Rapper Donates $1 Million to Chicago's Public Schools |
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