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Events on the 8th of March in history

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08 Mar 1010 Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.
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08 Mar 1126 Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
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08 Mar 1418 Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant
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08 Mar 1576 Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
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08 Mar 1586 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor
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08 Mar 1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
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08 Mar 1655 John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
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08 Mar 1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden and Denmark
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08 Mar 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 to save the rest.
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08 Mar 1702 England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
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08 Mar 1702 Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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08 Mar 1711 Antoin de Guiscard tries English Premier Haley for murder
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08 Mar 1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
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08 Mar 1722 The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
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08 Mar 1736 Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
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08 Mar 1754 Marquis of Ensenada becomes Premier of Spain
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08 Mar 1766 Willem V (18) becomes Governor of United Provinces
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08 Mar 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.
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08 Mar 1777 Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
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08 Mar 1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians
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08 Mar 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.
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08 Mar 1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
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08 Mar 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.
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08 Mar 1813 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
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08 Mar 1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
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08 Mar 1838 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
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08 Mar 1844 King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
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08 Mar 1855 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
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08 Mar 1858 Opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples)
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08 Mar 1861 St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies
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08 Mar 1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
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08 Mar 1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
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08 Mar 1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown andYorktown vs. USS Cumberland, Congress andMonitor
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08 Mar 1862 American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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08 Mar 1868 Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
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08 Mar 1887 Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
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08 Mar 1894 New York passes 1st state dog license law
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08 Mar 1896 Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
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08 Mar 1900 NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
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08 Mar 1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games
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08 Mar 1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers
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08 Mar 1908 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York
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08 Mar 1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
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08 Mar 1910 French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
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08 Mar 1911 International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
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08 Mar 1913 Federal League organizes with 6 teams
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08 Mar 1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes
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08 Mar 1914 First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
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08 Mar 1915 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
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08 Mar 1916 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
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08 Mar 1916 World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
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08 Mar 1917 The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
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08 Mar 1917 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).
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08 Mar 1920 Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations
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08 Mar 1920 The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
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08 Mar 1921 Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
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08 Mar 1924 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah
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08 Mar 1924 The Castle Gate Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
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08 Mar 1927 Pan American Airlines incorporates
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08 Mar 1929 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
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08 Mar 1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
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08 Mar 1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
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08 Mar 1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
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08 Mar 1936 Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
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08 Mar 1937 Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
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08 Mar 1941 1st baseball player drafted into WWII (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
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08 Mar 1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
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08 Mar 1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
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08 Mar 1942 World War II: Dutch forces surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
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08 Mar 1943 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg
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08 Mar 1943 Limited gambling legalized in Mexico
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08 Mar 1943 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
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08 Mar 1943 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn
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08 Mar 1944 US resumes bombing Berlin
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08 Mar 1945 "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain
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08 Mar 1945 53 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
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08 Mar 1945 Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign
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08 Mar 1946 1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC)
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08 Mar 1947 Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the 228 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
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08 Mar 1948 Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional
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08 Mar 1949 WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
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08 Mar 1949 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
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08 Mar 1949 President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor Bảo Đại 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.
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08 Mar 1949 Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.
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08 Mar 1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
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08 Mar 1950 Marshall Voroshilov of the USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
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08 Mar 1951 International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
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08 Mar 1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government
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08 Mar 1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
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08 Mar 1953 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
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08 Mar 1953 KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
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08 Mar 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
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08 Mar 1953 WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
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08 Mar 1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
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08 Mar 1957 Ghana joins the United Nations.
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08 Mar 1957 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.
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08 Mar 1957 Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
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08 Mar 1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
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08 Mar 1958 William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
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08 Mar 1959 KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
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08 Mar 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
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08 Mar 1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
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08 Mar 1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances
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08 Mar 1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours
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08 Mar 1962 Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)
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08 Mar 1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
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08 Mar 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.
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08 Mar 1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
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08 Mar 1965 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
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08 Mar 1965 3,500 United States Marines are the first land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
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08 Mar 1966 "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
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08 Mar 1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
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08 Mar 1966 A bomb planted by Irish Republican Army militants destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
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08 Mar 1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
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08 Mar 1968 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Md)
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08 Mar 1968 Fillmore East opens
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08 Mar 1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw
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08 Mar 1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
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08 Mar 1970 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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08 Mar 1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
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08 Mar 1971 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
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08 Mar 1971 The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
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08 Mar 1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
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08 Mar 1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
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08 Mar 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
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08 Mar 1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
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08 Mar 1976 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
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08 Mar 1977 Henry L Marsh III elected Mayor of Richmond
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08 Mar 1978 The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
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08 Mar 1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
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08 Mar 1979 Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale
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08 Mar 1979 Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
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08 Mar 1980 Greg Chappell 235 andYallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
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08 Mar 1981 Dennis Lillee ct by Queensland 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
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08 Mar 1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
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08 Mar 1983 House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
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08 Mar 1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
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08 Mar 1983 President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"
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08 Mar 1983 While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
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08 Mar 1985 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
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08 Mar 1985 A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
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08 Mar 1986 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
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08 Mar 1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
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08 Mar 1987 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
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08 Mar 1987 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California
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08 Mar 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA / Glendale Federal Golf Classic
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08 Mar 1987 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
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08 Mar 1989 "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances
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08 Mar 1989 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 seconds)
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08 Mar 1991 Harry Hamlin and Nicollette Sheridan wed
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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
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08 Mar 1992 22nd Easter Seal Telethon
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08 Mar 1992 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
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08 Mar 1993 Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
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08 Mar 1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
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08 Mar 1994 B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed
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08 Mar 1994 Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
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08 Mar 1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
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08 Mar 1995 Costis Stephanopoulos becomes President of Greece
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08 Mar 1995 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
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08 Mar 2004 A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
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08 Mar 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The aircraft is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia with the loss of all 239 people aboard.
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