What are the important events that happened on March 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 8: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 8 is the 68th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 24, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,497,600 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontaoctagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 327 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,095 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 8 Historical Events
- 1126 –Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
- 1777 –Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1917 –The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
- 1974 –Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- 1978 –The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
- 1979 –Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
- 2004 –A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.
Who were born on March 8?
- 1748 –William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (d. 1806)
- 1804 –Alvan Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1887)
- 1922 –Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1924 –Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010)
- 1945 –Anselm Kiefer, German painter
- 1945 –Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)
- 1946 –Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)
- 1949 –Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1950 –Richard Ouzounian, Canadian/American theatre director and critic
- 1970 –Jason Elam, American football player
Who died on March 8?
- 1126 –Urraca of León (b. 1082)
- 1223 –Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
- 1674 –Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
- 1844 –Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
- 1887 –Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
- 1951 –Raymond Fernandez, American convicted murderer (d. 1914)
- 1957 –Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
- 1988 –Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
- 1988 –Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
- 2005 –César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
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