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
- 1618 –Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
- 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.
- 1777 –Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
- 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.
- 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 –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).
- 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.
- 1949 –Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason
- 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.
- 1966 –A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin.
- 1974 –Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- 2004 –A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.
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