On This Day in History - March 8 |
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| What Happened On This Day In History - March 8 |
1618 March 8
1618-03-08
Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1817 March 8
1817-03-08
The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 March 8
1844-03-08
King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1911 March 8
1911-03-08
Women's Day was celebrated for the first time.
1917 March 8
1917-03-08
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 March 8
1920-03-08
The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
1936 March 8
1936-03-08
Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1942 March 8
1942-03-08
World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1961 March 8
1961-03-08
Thomas Creighton dies after having three heart transplants in a 46-hour period.
1965 March 8
1965-03-08
More than 4,000 Marines land at Da Nang in South Vietnam and become the first U.S. combat troops in Vietnam.
1966 March 8
1966-03-08
World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1973 March 8
1973-03-08
Two bombs explode near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain injuring 234 people.
1978 March 8
1978-03-08
The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 March 8
1979-03-08
Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1982 March 8
1982-03-08
The United States accuses the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas.
1985 March 8
1985-03-08
Thomas Creighton dies after having three heart transplants in a 46-hour period.
