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History Events on March 08

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History Events on March 08

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Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.

#Egypt

In 1957

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.

#Gnadenhutten_massacre

In 1782

Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.

#Charles_de_Gaulle_Airport

In 1974

Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.

#Johannes_Kepler

In 1618

Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.

#Germans_in_the_American_Revolution

In 1777

Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.

#Nelson's_Pillar

In 1966

Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.

#Spanish_Civil_War

In 1937

Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

#Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain

In 1702

A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.

#Castle_Gate_Mine_disaster

In 1924

American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.

#American_Civil_War

In 1862

Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.

#Republic_of_China_Army

In 1947

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.

#War_of_the_Second_Coalition

In 1801

Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.

#Sakai_incident

In 1868

The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

#New_York_Stock_Exchange

In 1817

Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".

#Cold_War

In 1983

President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor of Annam B?o ??i sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

#President_of_France

In 1949

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.

#Ba'ath_Party

In 1963

King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

#Oscar_I_of_Sweden

In 1844

World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces gave ultimatum to Dutch East Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, to unconditionally surrender.

#World_War_II

In 1942

First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.

#Royal_Thai_Air_Force

In 1914

Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg.

#Battle_of_Hausbergen

In 1262

Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.

#Alfonso_VII_of_León_and_Castile

In 1126

The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapsed in stormy weather.

#Azure_Window

In 2017

World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.

#World_War_I

In 1916

World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.

#Yangon

In 1942

Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.

#Philips

In 1979

The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.

#United_States_Senate

In 1917

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 to save the rest.

#Treaty_of_Roskilde

In 1658

Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.

#Nader_Shah

In 1736

Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.

#Daytona_Beach_and_Road_Course

In 1936

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.

#Thomas_Paine

In 1775

Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.

#Ferdowsi

In 1010

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

#Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

In 2014

The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.

#Arab_Kingdom_of_Syria

In 1920

John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.

#John_Casor

In 1655

Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.

#Maya_civilization

In 1576

A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.

In 2004

A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.

In 1985

The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.

In 1971

Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.

In 1965

The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.

In 1957

Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.

In 1921

International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).

In 1917

French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.

In 1910

The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.

In 1722

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