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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1868 –Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.
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