WillDekkard
03-08-2011, 04:40 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - March 8th
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* 1010 Ferdowsi completes his Shāhnāmeh.
* 1126 Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leσn, after the death of his mother Urraca.
* 1618 Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
* 1655 John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in Britain's North American colonies.
* 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 An anonymous writer, though 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.
* 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.
* 1868 Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
* 1910 French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
* 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.
* 1916 World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
* 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).
* 1917 The U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
* 1920 The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
* 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.
* 1937 Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
* 1942 World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
* 1949 Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison on count of treason
* 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 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.
* 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.
* 2010 The stolen body of Tassos Papadopoulos, 5th President of Cyprus, is discovered in a cemetery near the capital.
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This Date in History - March 8th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1010 Ferdowsi completes his Shāhnāmeh.
* 1126 Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leσn, after the death of his mother Urraca.
* 1618 Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
* 1655 John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in Britain's North American colonies.
* 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 An anonymous writer, though 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.
* 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.
* 1868 Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
* 1910 French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
* 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.
* 1916 World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
* 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).
* 1917 The U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
* 1920 The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
* 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.
* 1937 Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
* 1942 World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
* 1949 Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison on count of treason
* 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 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.
* 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.
* 2010 The stolen body of Tassos Papadopoulos, 5th President of Cyprus, is discovered in a cemetery near the capital.
end of c/p
Happy Birthday Ewa !
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Ewa Sonnet
Ewa Sonnet (born March 8, 1985)
Polish adult model and pop singer