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08 March, 2004
A new constitution is signed by Iraqs Governing Council.
08 March, 1999
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
08 March, 1985
A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in a car-bombing in Beirut kills 85 people and injures 175.
08 March, 1983
40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire
08 March, 1983
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses a nuclear weapons freeze with the Soviet Union, a move denounced by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
08 March, 1980
The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union
08 March, 1974
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
08 March, 1971
Joe Frazier becomes the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion by winning a unanimous 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in New York.
08 March, 1966
Vietnam War: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam.
08 March, 1966
A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelsons Pillar in Dublin.
08 March, 1965
Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
08 March, 1963
The Baath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup détat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
08 March, 1957
Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.
08 March, 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.
08 March, 1950
Marshal Voroshilov announces that the Soviet Union possesses the atomic bomb.
08 March, 1945
Allied forces move large numbers of troops across the Rhine River to significantly reinforce and expand their tenuous hold on the captured Ludendorff Bridge (Bridge at Remagen), allowing them to push some armor across the river and better secure the nascent lodgement.
08 March, 1943
World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
08 March, 1942
World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
08 March, 1942
World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
08 March, 1942
World War II: British bombers begin a new style of air raid, using incendiary bombs to light the way for a nighttime attack on the Krupp armament works in Essen. The long series of attacks reduce the city to ruins.
08 March, 1936
The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
08 March, 1924
Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
08 March, 1921
Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
08 March, 1917
Riots and strikes break out in St. Petersburg, Russia, marking the start of the Russian Revolution.
08 March, 1917
The U.S. Senate votes to to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
08 March, 1911
International Womens Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Womens Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
08 March, 1894
The state of New York enacts the nations first dog-licensing law.
08 March, 1884
Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthonys argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal womens suffrage amendment.
08 March, 1862
American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
08 March, 1854
U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry makes his second landing in Japan, where he will conclude a treaty with the Japanese within a month.
08 March, 1844
King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
08 March, 1817
The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
08 March, 1782
Gnadenhütten massacre: Some 90 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity had their skulls crushed with mallets by Pennsylvanian militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
08 March, 1775
Thomas Paines "African Slavery in America" was published. It was the first article in the United States calling for the emancipation of all slaves and the abolition of slavery.
08 March, 1765
The British House of Lords passes the Stamp Act to tax the American colonies.
08 March, 1702
Anne Stuart, the sister of the childless Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland and Ireland after the death of William III of Orange.
08 March, 1618
Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.

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