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Historical Events

08 Mar 1586
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor
08 Mar 1702
Queen Anne becomes Queen of England Scotland and Ireland upon death of King William III
08 Mar 1711
Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
08 Mar 1766
Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces
08 Mar 1777
Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt
08 Mar 1782
Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians
08 Mar 1801
British drive French forces from Abukir Egypt
08 Mar 1838
US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
08 Mar 1844
King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway
08 Mar 1855
1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge Niagara Falls
08 Mar 1857
British seismologist John Milne is hired by the Japanese government as a foreign adviser (oyatoi gaikokujin)
08 Mar 1861
St Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies
08 Mar 1862
Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
08 Mar 1862
Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads VA CSS Virginia Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland Congress & Monitor
08 Mar 1865
Battle of Kingston North Carolina (Wilcoxs ridge Wises Forks)
08 Mar 1865
27th Grand National Captain Henry Coventry wins aboard French outsider Alcibiade at 1007
08 Mar 1867
British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons serves as Canadas constitution for more than 100 years
08 Mar 1884
1st performance of Edward MacDowells 2nd Piano suite
08 Mar 1887
Everett Horton CT patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
08 Mar 1894
The state of New York enacts the nations first dog-licensing law
08 Mar 1898
Richard Straus Don Quixote premieres in Keulen
08 Mar 1900
NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore Cleveland Louisville & Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
08 Mar 1902
1st performance of Jean Sibelius 2nd Symphony his most popular by the Helsinki Philharmonic Society
08 Mar 1904
Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
08 Mar 1906
Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games
08 Mar 1908
Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall NY
08 Mar 1910
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes the 1st ever licensed female pilot
08 Mar 1913
Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes
08 Mar 1915
1st US navy minelayer Baltimore commissioned
08 Mar 1916
US invades Cuba for 3rd time this to end corrupt Menocal regime
08 Mar 1917
Russian February Revolution begins in earnest with protests celebrating International Womans Day and riots in St Petersburg over food rations and conduct of the war [OSFeb 23]
08 Mar 1921
Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
08 Mar 1924
Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
08 Mar 1929
US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
08 Mar 1931
Australian Championships Womens Tennis In an all-Australian final Coral McInnes Buttsworth beats Marjorie Cox Crawford 1-6 6-3 6-4
08 Mar 1931
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Jack Crawford wins 1st of 4 Australian titles beats fellow Australian Harry Hopman 6-4 6-2 2-6 6-1
08 Mar 1936
The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach Florida.
08 Mar 1939
Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowans Family Portrait premieres
08 Mar 1941
1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy Phillies)
08 Mar 1942
KNIL Dutch colonial army on Java surrenders to Japanese armies
08 Mar 1943
335 allied bombers attack German city of Nuremberg a centre for military production
08 Mar 1943
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn
08 Mar 1945
Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn in as US Navy ensign
08 Mar 1946
1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (NYC)
08 Mar 1948
US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional
08 Mar 1949
WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
08 Mar 1949
WBAP-FM Fort Worth Texas begins broadcasting
08 Mar 1950
1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
08 Mar 1951
Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
08 Mar 1953
Twos Company closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 90 performances
08 Mar 1953
Census indicates 239000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
08 Mar 1953
KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
08 Mar 1953
WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
08 Mar 1954
Herb McKinley sets quarter mile record of 046.8 in Melbourne Australia
08 Mar 1957
1st performance of David Diamonds 6th Symphony in Boston
08 Mar 1957
Egypt reopens the Suez Canal after Israel withdraws from occupied Egyptian territory
08 Mar 1958
Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
08 Mar 1958
5th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Maryland beats North Carolina 86-74
08 Mar 1959
Groucho Chico & Harpo Marxs final TV appearance together
08 Mar 1959
KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
08 Mar 1960
Greenwillow opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances
08 Mar 1962
Beatles with Pete Best TV debut (perform Dream Baby on BBC)
08 Mar 1963
Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
08 Mar 1965
First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam on the beaches of Da Nang
08 Mar 1966
Golden Boy closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
08 Mar 1966
An IRA bomb destroys Nelsons Column in Dublin
08 Mar 1967
New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20000 sold 1st day)
08 Mar 1968
6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown Maryland)
08 Mar 1968
Bill Grahams New York rock venue Fillmore East opens in Manhattan
08 Mar 1969
16th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament North Carolina beats Duke 85-74
08 Mar 1970
WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
08 Mar 1971
Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
08 Mar 1971
Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrixs Star Spangled Banner
08 Mar 1971
Gun battle between Official Irish Republican Army and Provisional IRA leave 1 man killed result of feud between two wings of the IRA developing since the split in 1970
08 Mar 1972
1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
08 Mar 1973
The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain planting four car bombs in London 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country
08 Mar 1974
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris France
08 Mar 1975
Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
08 Mar 1975
22nd ACC Mens Basketball Tournament North Carolina beats NC State 70-66
08 Mar 1976
1774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin China
08 Mar 1977
Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond Virginia
08 Mar 1977
Princess Anne announces shes expecting her 1st child (Peter)
08 Mar 1979
1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Jupiters satellite Io
08 Mar 1979
Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale
08 Mar 1980
Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172 for 217 stand at Faisalabad
08 Mar 1980
The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union
08 Mar 1981
Shakespeares Cabaret closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 54 performances
08 Mar 1981
Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
08 Mar 1983
House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
08 Mar 1985
Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
08 Mar 1985
6th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Georgetown beats St. Johns 92-80
08 Mar 1986
4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
08 Mar 1986
Japanese probe Suisei passes Halleys Comet at 109800 km
08 Mar 1986
27th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Alabama 83-72
08 Mar 1986
7th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament St. Johns beats Syracuse 70-69
08 Mar 1987
David Hookes (306) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust
08 Mar 1987
FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas Jr in California
08 Mar 1987
Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
08 Mar 1987
34th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament NC State beats North Carolina 68-67
08 Mar 1987
28th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Alabama beats LSU 69-62
08 Mar 1987
8th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Georgetown beats Syracuse 69-59
08 Mar 1989
Heidi Chronicles opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances
08 Mar 1989
Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
08 Mar 1990
NYCs Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim Mario Orosco
08 Mar 1991
Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
08 Mar 1993
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
08 Mar 1994
20th Peoples Choice Awards Tom Cruise & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Roseanne Arnold win (TV)
08 Mar 1994
B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli at least 8 killed
08 Mar 1994
US Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
08 Mar 1995
-26F (-32.2C) in Bismarck North Dakota
08 Mar 1995
-44F (-42.2C) in Chosedacharad Komi-district on 67N
08 Mar 1995
Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
08 Mar 1997
11th Soul Train Music Awards Curtis Mayfield and Babyface win
08 Mar 1998
45th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 4 North Carolina beats 1 Duke 83-68
08 Mar 1998
39th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats South Carolina 86-56
08 Mar 1999
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
08 Mar 2003
34th NAACP Image Awards Antwone Fisher wins Outstanding Motion Picture
08 Mar 2004
A new constitution is signed by Iraqs Governing Council.
08 Mar 2012
Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
08 Mar 2012
Toyota recalls 700000 vehicles over safety concerns
08 Mar 2013
North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea
08 Mar 2017
Aboriginal DNA study by University of Adelaide shows Aboriginal population dates back 50000 years from one migration
08 Mar 2017
FC Barcelona in a great comeback become 1st team to overturn 4-0 deficit beating St-Germain 6-5 in return game to reach the Champions League quarter finals
08 Mar 2018
Asia-Pacific trade deal signed in Santiago Chile by 11 countries after US pulled out
08 Mar 2018
5 million Spanish women mark International Womens Day by striking over gender inequality and sexual discrimination
08 Mar 1904
Australian cricket spin bowler Hugh Trumble dismisses England batsmen Bernard Bosanquet Plum Warner and Dick Lilley for his second Test hat-trick in 5th Test victory in Melbourne Trumbles final Test
08 Mar 1906
Stanley Cup Deys Arena Ottawa ON Ottawa HC beats Smiths Falls (ON) 8-2 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
08 Mar 2004
A new constitution is signed by Iraqs Governing Council after the invasion and occupation by American-led forces
08 Mar 2019
US national womens soccer team sue for equal pay by filing a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against United States Soccer Federation
08 Mar 1945
Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (SD) intelligence agency executes 116 prisoners and one reluctant police official at de Woeste Hoeve Netherlands in response to raid by resistance forces two days earlier
08 Mar 1994
B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Delhi at least 8 killed
08 Mar 2020
Italy announces it is locking down northern region of Lombardy including Milan with 16 million people as COVID-19 cases reach 5800 with 233 deaths
08 Mar 2020
America registers 521 cases of COVID-19 with 21 deaths across 33 states
08 Mar 2020
ICC T20 World Cup Womens Cricket Melbourne Defending champions Australia beats India by 85 runs Beth Mooney [77no] Player of the Series Alyssa Healy 75 off 39 balls MVP crowd 86174
08 Mar 2020
BNP Paribas Open international tennis tournament in Indian Wells California dubbed the 5th Grand Slam is cancelled due to concerns surrounding COVID-19 and the safety of participants and attendees
08 Mar 1782
Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 Native American
08 Mar 1913
MLB Federal League organizes with 6 teams including the Chicago Whales who built and played at Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field) League folded after 3 seasons
08 Mar 1972
1st flight of the Goodyear blimp Europa (N2A) 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years
08 Mar 1953
Census indicates 239000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years in US
08 Mar 1953
KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton Oklahoma (ABC) begins broadcasting
08 Mar 1953
WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown Ohio (NBC) begins broadcasting
08 Mar 2020
ICC Womens Cricket T20 World Cup Melbourne Defending champions Australia beats India by 85 runs Beth Mooney [77no] Player of the Series Alyssa Healy 75 off 39 balls MVP crowd 86174
08 Mar 2022
Florida Senate passes controversial Parental Rights in Education bill known as the Dont Say Gay bill restricting teachers from discussing gender identity [1]
08 Mar 2022
Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon formally apologises to the 4000 Scots mostly women accused of witchcraft between 1563 and 1736 [1]
08 Mar 2022
Sydney has wettest start to the year since records began recording 822 millimetres of rain amid widespread flooding [1]
08 Mar 2022
UK band Glass Animals song Heat Waves sets new record of 59 weeks for longest time to reach No. 1 on US Billboard Top 100 [1]
08 Mar 1957
David Diamonds 6th Symphony premieres with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch
08 Mar 1957
Israeli troops leave Egypt in compliance with UN resolution
08 Mar 1968
6-year-old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown Maryland)
08 Mar 1973
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) undertakes its first operation in Great Britain planting four car bombs in London. Ten members of PIRA are later arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country.
08 Mar 1991
Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured
08 Mar 2020
A police report is filed against Brian Ortega for allegedly slapping rapper Jay Park at UFC 248
08 Mar 2023
171 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the worlds oceans increasing from 16 trillion in 2005 estimate scientists from Gyres Institute [1]
08 Mar 2023
Oldest known reference to Norse god Odin from fifth century revealed on gold disc from Vindelev hoard Western Denmark by Danish scientists [1]
08 Mar 1711
Antoin de Guiscard a French and English spy fails in an attempt to murder English Chancellor of the Exchequer Robert Harley Harley survives stabbing and Guiscard dies later from injuries sustained in the fracas
08 Mar 1844
Oscar I (45) ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway upon the death of his father Charles XIV John
08 Mar 1910
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes the first licensed female pilot
08 Mar 1917
Russian February Revolution begins in earnest with protests celebrating International Womens Day and riots in St. Petersburg over food rations and conduct of the war [OSFeb 23]
08 Mar 2017
Aboriginal DNA study by the University of Adelaide shows the Aboriginal population dates back 50000 years from a single migration
08 Mar 2024
A report by the Pentagon into UFOs since 1945 finds no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence [1]
08 Mar 1658
Sweden and Denmark sign the Treaty of Roskilde Denmark cedes Scania Trondheim and Bornholm to Sweden
08 Mar 1887
Everett Horton of Connecticut patents a fishing rod made of telescoping steel tubes
08 Mar 1979
First extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Jupiters moon Io
08 Mar 2025
More than 1000 people including at least 700 civilians are killed in clashes between the Syrian security forces and former Assad loyalists in Latakia province one of the highest death tolls in Syria since 2011 [1]
08 Mar 2025
Tropical Cyclone Alfred makes landfall in Australia on islands off the coast of Brisbane Queensland as a category one storm bringing significant rainfall [1]