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 67th 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, 29,023,200 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 ‘hexacontaheptagon’ day.
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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.
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March 8 Historical Events
- 1010 –Ferdowsi completes his Shāhnāmeh.
- 1655 –John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies.
- 1702 –Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
- 1777 –Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
- 1844 –King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The iron-clad Ship CSS (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- 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).
- 1921 –Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- 1957 –Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
- 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.
Who were born on March 8?
- 1293 –Beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (d. 1359)
- 1922 –Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1938 –Pete Dawkins, American football player
- 1939 –Jim Bouton, American baseball player and author
- 1945 –Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)
- 1948 –Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
- 1953 –Jim Rice, American baseball player
- 1963 –Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 –Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering)
- 1975 –Peggy Zina, Greek singer
Who died on March 8?
- 1144 –Pope Celestine II
- 1889 –John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (b. 1803)
- 1930 –Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
- 1942 –José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
- 1951 –Martha Beck, American convicted murderer (b. 1920)
- 1985 –Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1988 –Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961)
- 1988 –Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
- 1995 –Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
- 2004 –Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
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