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, 483,720 hours 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

• 1010 –
  Ferdowsi completes his Shāhnāmeh.
• 1126 –
  Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
• 1655 –
  John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies.
• 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.
• 1920 –
  The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
• 1937 –
  Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
• 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.
• 1974 –
  Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
• 1985 –
  A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.

Who were born on March 8?

• 1827 –
  Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
• 1914 –
  Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
• 1957 –
  John Butcher, American baseball player
• 1964 –
  Cheryl James, American performer (Salt-n-Pepa)
• 1968 –
  Ellen Forney, American cartoonist
• 1968 –
  Shawn Mullins, American musician
• 1970 –
  Jason Elam, American football player
• 1973 –
  Justin Thompson, American baseball player
• 1980 –
  Charli Delaney, Australian singer (Hi-5)
• 1990 –
  Kristinia DeBarge, American R&B singer

Who died on March 8?

• 1144 –
  Pope Celestine II
• 1771 –
  Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
• 1872 –
  Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1887 –
  James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
• 1957 –
  Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1996 –
  Jack Churchill, eccentric British soldier (b.1906)
• 2001 –
  Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2005 –
  Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)
• 2005 –
  César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
• 2009 –
  Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (b. 1938)