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What Happened on March 8th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone.
2018	The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) was held being International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then annually held across Pakistan and feminist slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi (My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence came into vogue in Pakistan.[36][37]
2017	The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapses in stormy weather.
2014	In one of aviation's greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
2004	A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
1985	A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 56 and injures 180 others.
1983	Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1979	Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
1966	Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
1965	Vietnam War: US Marines arrive at Da Nang.
1963	The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état
1950	The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production.
1942	World War II: The Dutch East Indies surrender Java to the Imperial Japanese Army
1942	World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
1937	Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1936	Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1924	A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1921	Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while on his way home from the parliament building in Madrid.
1917	International Women's Day protests in Petrograd mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23 in the Julian calendar).
1917	The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1916	World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1910	French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1868	Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
1844	King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1844	The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, was reopened after 45 years of closure.
1801	War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
1782	Gnadenhutten 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 Indian tribes.
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.
1736	Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
1722	The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad.
1702	Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1658	Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden.
1558	The city of Pori (Swedish: Björneborg) was founded by Duke John on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia.
1262	Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg.
1126	Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
1010	Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.

Famous People Born on March 8

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Year	Name
1912	Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1726	Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician, Treasurer of the Navy (d. 1799)
1939	Jim Bouton, American baseball player and journalist (d. 2019)
1804	Alvan Clark, American astronomer and optician (d. 1887)
1976	Juan Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
1977	James Van Der Beek, American actor
1909	Beatrice Shilling, English motorcycle racer and engineer (d. 1990)
1921	Alan Hale Jr., American actor and restaurateur (d. 1990)
1994	Claire Emslie, Scottish footballer
1961	Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player

Famous People Deaths On March 8

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Date	Name
2007	John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
1702	William III of England (b. 1650)
2004	Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founded the Palestine Liberation Front
1874	Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
1126	Urraca of León and Castile (b. 1079)
2018	Kate Wilhelm, American author (b. 1928)
1993	Billy Eckstine, American trumpet player (b. 1914)
1975	George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
1550	John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (b. 1495)
1923	Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)