About March 8
March 8, 2025 is the 67th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 346 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 8
- 1126 –Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
- 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.
- 1844 –King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
- 1949 –Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason
- 1957 –Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
- 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.
- 1966 –A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin.
- 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.
- 1999 –The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
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