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, 1,741,392,000 seconds 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.
• 1618 –
  Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
• 1702 –
  Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
• 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.
• 1868 –
  Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
• 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.
• 1920 –
  The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
• 1949 –
  Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason
• 1963 –
  The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état 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.

Who were born on March 8?

• 1495 –
  John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (d. 1550)
• 1659 –
  Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738)
• 1892 –
  Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (d. 1979)
• 1899 –
  Elmer Keith, American firearms developer (d. 1984)
• 1941 –
  Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
• 1947 –
  Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
• 1960 –
  Max Metzker, Australian swimmer
• 1977 –
  Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
• 1984 –
  Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
• 1986 –
  Princess Tsuguko of Takamado, Japanese princess

Who died on March 8?

• 1869 –
  Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
• 1923 –
  Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 –
  Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)
• 1930 –
  Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
• 1930 –
  William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1971 –
  Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)
• 1999 –
  Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
• 2005 –
  César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
• 2007 –
  John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2009 –
  Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (b. 1938)