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
- 1618 –Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1916 –World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
- 1917 –The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
- 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.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
- 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.
- 1966 –A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin.
- 1974 –Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- 1978 –The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
- 1979 –Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
- 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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