WillDekkard
03-08-2010, 03:17 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 8th
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* 1126 Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leon, after the death of his mother Urraca.
* 1655 John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in what will be the United States.
* 1702 Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
* 1722 The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
* 1775 Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America," the first article in the U.S. calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery is published.
* 1777 Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
* 1782 Gnadenhόtten 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.
* 1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
* 1844 King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
* 1862 American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
* 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 U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
* 1921 Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
* 1924 The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
* 1936 Daytona Beach Road Course holds their first oval stock car race.
* 1942 World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
* 1957 Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
* 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 state of Georgia.
* 1957 Ghana joins the United Nations.
* 1963 The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d'ιtat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
* 1966 A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
* 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
* 1978 The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
* 1979 Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
* 1980 The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
* 1983 President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
* 1985 A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
* 1999 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
* 2004 A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
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- March 8th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1126 Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leon, after the death of his mother Urraca.
* 1655 John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in what will be the United States.
* 1702 Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
* 1722 The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
* 1775 Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America," the first article in the U.S. calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery is published.
* 1777 Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
* 1782 Gnadenhόtten 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.
* 1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
* 1844 King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
* 1862 American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
* 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 U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
* 1921 Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
* 1924 The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
* 1936 Daytona Beach Road Course holds their first oval stock car race.
* 1942 World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
* 1957 Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
* 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 state of Georgia.
* 1957 Ghana joins the United Nations.
* 1963 The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d'ιtat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
* 1966 A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
* 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
* 1978 The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
* 1979 Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
* 1980 The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
* 1983 President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
* 1985 A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
* 1999 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
* 2004 A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
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