March 8

March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining.

Events:

1917 - Start of the February Revolution in Russia.
1948 - The Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
1950 - The Soviet Union claimed to be in possession of the atomic bomb.
1965 - First U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam.
1983 - President Reagan called the USSR an "Evil Empire".

Births:

1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, composer, not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach (+ 1788)
1879 - Otto Hahn, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1944 (+ 1968)
1904 - Victor De Kowa, actor (+ 1973)
1922 - Heinar Kipphardt, dramatist, lyricist and narrator (+ 1922)
1923 - Walter Jens, writer
1945 - Micky Dolenz, actor, director, and member of The Monkees
1945 - Anselm Kiefer, painter

Deaths:

1702 - William of Orange, also known as William III. King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
1973 - Ron Pigpen McKernan of the Grateful Dead

Holidays and observances:

Catholicism - Feast day of St John of God.
In many countries it is "Women's day", in the anniversary of the tragic Triangle Factory Fire (Boston, 1908), where 129 women lost their lives while on strike.

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December