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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1920 –The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
- 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.
- 1949 –Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1985 –A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
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