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.
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
- 1010 –Ferdowsi completes his Shāhnāmeh.
- 1618 –Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1983 –President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an “evil empire”.
Who were born on March 8?
- 1933 –Evelyn Margaret Ay, American beauty pageant winner (d. 2008)
- 1941 –Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
- 1949 –Karel Lismont, Belgian athlete
- 1954 –Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
- 1961 –Mark Salas, American baseball player
- 1971 –Kit Symons, Welsh footballer
- 1973 –Justin Thompson, American baseball player
- 1983 –Mark Worrell, American baseball player
- 1984 –Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
- 1986 –Princess Tsuguko of Takamado, Japanese princess
Who died on March 8?
- 1126 –Urraca of León (b. 1082)
- 1731 –Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
- 1872 –Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (b. 1815)
- 1951 –Martha Beck, American convicted murderer (b. 1920)
- 1957 –Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
- 1988 –Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961)
- 1988 –Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
- 1995 –Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
- 1999 –Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
- 2001 –Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
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