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 67^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 23, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,023,200 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 ‘hexacontaheptagon’ day.

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 346 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 4,460 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 8 Historical Events

• 1126 –
  Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
• 1702 –
  Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
• 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.
• 1844 –
  King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 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).
• 1957 –
  Ghana joins the United Nations.
• 1957 –
  The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
• 1966 –
  A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin.
• 1974 –
  Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.

Who were born on March 8?

• 1748 –
  William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (d. 1806)
• 1931 –
  Neil Adcock, South African Cricket player
• 1933 –
  Evelyn Margaret Ay, American beauty pageant winner (d. 2008)
• 1934 –
  Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1946 –
  Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)
• 1957 –
  Cynthia Rothrock, American actress
• 1962 –
  Kim Ung-Yong, Korean child prodigy
• 1984 –
  Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer
• 1988 –
  Armanti Edwards, American college football player
• 1990 –
  Ben Tozer, English footballer

Who died on March 8?

• 1126 –
  Urraca of León (b. 1082)
• 1855 –
  William Poole, American criminal, member of New York City’s Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821)
• 1869 –
  Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
• 1917 –
  Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (b. 1838)
• 1957 –
  Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1972 –
  Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi official (b. 1899)
• 1973 –
  Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, American musician (b. 1945)
• 1975 –
  George Stevens, American director (b. 1904)
• 1996 –
  Jack Churchill, eccentric British soldier (b.1906)
• 2007 –
  Viky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)