About March 8
March 8, 2025 is the 67th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 346 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 8
- 1655 –John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies.
- 1722 –The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
- 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 –Gnadenhütten 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 Indians.
- 1817 –The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
- 1844 –King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 1868 –Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
- 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.
- 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 St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
- 1921 –Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
- 1949 –Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason
- 1957 –Ghana joins the United Nations.
- 1957 –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 U.S. state of Georgia.
- 1978 –The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
- 1983 –President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an “evil empire”.
- 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.
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