About March 8
March 8, 2023 is the 67th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 339 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 8
- 1010 –Ferdowsi completes his Shāhnāmeh.
- 1655 –John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies.
- 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.
- 1777 –Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
- 1817 –The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
- 1868 –Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
- 1910 –French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.
- 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.
- 1917 –The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
- 1920 –The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
- 1936 –Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
- 1942 –World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
- 1957 –Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
- 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.
- 1974 –Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- 1979 –Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
- 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.
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