Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 8
This is a list of selected March 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Johannes Kepler -
Raymonde de LaRoche
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, died at the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhutten massacre. | tagged with {{morefootnotes}} |
| 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange drafted its constitution. | Already featured on May 17 |
| 1844 – Oscar I acceded to the throne of Sweden-Norway. | refimprove |
| 1911 – Socialist German politician Clara Zetkin launched the idea of an International Women's Day in Copenhagen. | refimprove |
| 1916 – First World War: A British force unsuccessfully attempted to relieve the Ottoman siege of Kut (in present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila. | refimprove |
| 1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut killed more than 80 people and injured almost 200 others. | synthesis |
Eligible
- 1576 – A letter to King Philip II of Spain contained the first European mention of the Mayan ruins of Copán in modern Honduras.
- 1655 – The court of Northampton County, Colony of Virginia, made John Casor the first legally recognized slave in England's North American colonies.
- 1658 – After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars, the King of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his Danish territory to Sweden to save the rest.
- 1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.
- 1924 – Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah, US, killed all 171 miners working there.
- 1966 – Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar with a statue of Lord Nelson on top in Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed by a bomb.
- 1978 – BBC Radio 4 transmitted the first episode of English author and dramatist Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other media formats.
March 8: International Women's Day; Mother's Day in various countries
- 1010 – Persian poet Ferdowsi completed his masterpiece, the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran and related societies.
- 1618 – German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
- 1702 – Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway (pictured) became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding William III.
- 1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.
- 1983 – The Cold War: During a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".