About March 8
March 8, 2024 is the 68th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 327 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 8
- 1126 –Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
- 1618 –Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
- 1702 –Anne Stuart, 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, pushing Iran into anarchy.
- 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.
- 1817 –The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The iron-clad Ship CSS (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- 1910 –French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.
- 1917 –International Women’s Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
- 1920 –The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
- 1921 –Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- 1924 –The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
- 1936 –Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
- 1942 –World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
- 1949 –Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason
- 1957 –Ghana joins the United Nations.
- 1966 –A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin.
- 1979 –Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
- 1985 –A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
- 2004 –A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.
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