About March 8

March 8, 2021 is the 67th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 330 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 8

  • 1010 –
    Ferdowsi completes his Shāhnāmeh.
  • 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.
  • 1655 –
    John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 1949 –
    Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason
  • 1957 –
    Ghana joins the United Nations.
  • 1963 –
    The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
  • 1974 –
    Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
  • 2004 –
    A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.

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