On this day in History - Mar. 08

• 1126 - Fallece la reina Doña Urraca de Castilla y León.
• 1144 - Pope Celestine II dies.
• 1500 - A armada de Pedro Álvares Cabral zarpou do Tejo para a viagem que os levou até ao Brasil.
• 1514- Amago Haruhisa, was born, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562) .
• 1550 - Morreu S. João de Deus nascido em 1495 em Montemor-Novo, Portugal, faleceu neste dia do ano de 1550 em Granada, Espanha. Dedicou a sua vida aos pobres e enfermos.Foi beatificado em 16 de Setembro de 1930 e canonizado em 16 de Outubro de 1690.
• 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but later on May 15 confirms the discovery).
• 1658 - Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark.
• 1669 - Erupción del volcán Etna, que arrasó parte de la ciudad de Catania.
• 1694 - Criação da CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL, em Salvador-BA;
• 1702 - King William III of England, dies (b. 1650) .
• 1702 - Anne becomes Queen of Great Britain upon death of King William III .
• 1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, was born, composer, not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1788) .
• 1731 - Fundação da Academia dos Unidos em Torre de Moncorvo, Trás-os-Montes.
• 1781 - Nace Juana Azurduy, heroína de la independencia boliviana.
• 1782 - Gnadenhütten massacre: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio had their skulls crushed with a mallet by Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder.
• 1783 - Hannah Van Buren,was born, would-be First Lady of the United States (d. 1819).
• 1783 - Hannah Van Burenwife of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the U.S. [she died Feb 5, 1819 , before he was elected president .
• 1790 - The French Assembly votes to continue slavery in French colonies .
• 1799 - Un incendio, al parecer intencionado, destruye el teatro Odeón, de París.
• 1827 - Wilhelm Bleek,was born, linguist (d. 1875) .
• 1830 - Nasceu o poeta português João de Deus em S. Bartolomeu de Messines (m. 1896).
• 1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.,was born, Supreme Court justice (d. 1935) .
• 1841 - King Charles XIV / Carl III of Sweden-Norway, dies (b. 1763) .
• 1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway .
• 1856 - Colocación de la primera piedra del teatro de la Zarzuela, de Madrid.
• 1856 - Tom Roberts,was born, artist (d. 1931) .
• 1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer (d. 1919) .
• 1859 - Kenneth Grahame, was born, author (d. 1932) Scottish Author of 'The Wind In The Willows' .
• 1861 - El violinista Pablo Sarasate da su primer concierto a los 17 años en las Tullerías, ante Napoleón III y su corte.
• 1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal .
• 1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
• 1867 - Nace Gregorio de Laferrere, político, legislador y autor teatral argentino.
• 1869 - Hector Berlioz, dies, composer (b. 1803) (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65 .
• 1872 - Anna Held, was born, actress & singer, (d. 1918) .
• 1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, dies. (b. 1800) .
• 1879 - Otto Hahn,was born, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 (d. 1968) .
• 1886 - Edward Calvin Kendall was born (d. 4 May 1972). Edward Calvin Kendall was an American chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones.
• 1887 - Henry Ward Beecher dies.
• 1888 - Stuart Chasewriter: was born, Men and Machines, Power of Words, A New Deal [inspired Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal]; died Nov 16, 1985 .
• 1889 - John Ericsson, dies, Swedish inventor and engineer, (b. 1803) .
• 1892 - Nace Juana de Ibarburu, poetisa uruguaya.
• 1902 - Louise Beavers, was born, actress .
• 1902 -Tom Blake was born (d. 5 May 1994) . Inventor of the hollow-core surfboard. Following his first experimental hollow surfboard in 1926, his innovative, hollow-core surf/paddle boards dominated the surfing world until the late 1940's .
• 1902 - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony.
• 1904 - Victor de Kowa, was born, actor (d. 1973) .
• 1906 - Moro Crater Massacre: US troops occupying the Philippines massacre about 600 men, women and children taking refuge in a crater.
• 1908 - Mueren 129 mujeres en el incendio de una fábrica textil de Nueva York en la que se habían encerrado para reclamar iguales derechos laborales que los hombres.
• 1909 - Claire Trevor was born (d. 8 Apr 2000); Academy Award-winning [supporting] actress: Key Largo [1948]; Stagecoach, The High and the Mighty, The Mountain, Marjorie Morningstar, The Stripper, How to Murder Your Wife .
• 1910 - Madame de Laroche foi a primeira mulher piloto a receber a licença do Aero Clube de França .
• 1911 - Alan Hovhaness, was born, composer.
• 1912 - Preston Smith, was born, Governor of Texas (d. 2003) .
• 1914 - Fernando Pessoa cria o heterónimo Alberto Caeiro e escreve Guardador de Rebanhos.
• 1915 - Tapio Rautavaara,was born, athlete, actor, singer (d. 1979) .
• 1917 - The February Revolution breaks out in Russia (February 23 O.S.).
• 1917 - The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters.
• 1917 - Fallece Fernando de Zeppelin, piloto alemán, inventor del dirigible que lleva su nombre.
• 1917 - Los Estados Unidos invaden Cuba por tercera vez.
• 1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating pandemic.
• 1920 - Muere el poeta argentino Rafael Obligado.
• 1920 - António Maria Baptista substitui Domingos Leite Pereira no cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal .
• 1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
• 1921 - Cyd Charisse, was born, actress, dancer 1921 - Cyd Charisse (Tula Ellice Finklea)dancer: Grand Hotel, Singin’ in the Rain; actress: Silk Stockings, Party Girl, Deep in My Heart .
• 1922 - Heinar Kipphardt was born.
• 1923 - Walter Jens was born.
• 1923 - Albert Einstein es investido doctor "honoris causa" por la Universidad Central de Madrid.
• 1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85 .
• 1929 -Nascimento de Hebe Camargo, a "Rainha da TV Brasileira", em Taubaté-SP.
• 1930 - William Howard Taft, dies President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States, (b. 1857).
• 1926 - Nace el actor Francisco Rabal (d. 2001) Spanish actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra, Divinas palabras, etc) .
• 1930 - Fallece el escritor Gabriel Miró.
• 1930 - El Mahatma Gandhi ordena el inicio de la desobediencia civil en la India.
• 1931 - John McPhee, was born, writer .
• 1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
• 1937 - Comienza la Batalla de Guadalajara .
• 1939 Lydia Skoblikova , was born USSR speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64) .
• 1939 - Robert Tear, was born, Welsh tenor .
• 1941- Sherwood Anderson, dies, author, (b. 1876) .
• 1942- José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban dies, chess player, (b. 1888) .
• 1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
• 1942 - World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
• 1943 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
• 1943 - Lynn Redgrave,was born, British actress .
• 1945 - Jim Chapman, was born, American politician .
• 1945 - Micky Dolenz,was born, actor, director, musician ("The Monkees") .
• 1945 - Anselm Kiefer, was born, painter.
• 1945 - As tropas aliadas tomaram a cidade alemã de Bona .
• 1946 - Randy Meisner, was born, musician ("The Eagles") .
• 1947 - Carole Bayer Sager,was born, composer .
• 1948 - Gary Numan was born .
• 1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
• 1949 - Nace Teófilo Cubillas, el "Nene"; futbolista peruano.
• 1950 - La Unión Soviética anuncia que cuenta con la bomba atómica.
• 1950 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
• 1951 - The Honeymoon Killers (Martha Beck & Raymond Fernandez) die in electric chair .
• 1952 - Antoine Pinay becomes Prime Minister of France .
• 1952 - Em Lisboa, foi inaugurada a Igreja de S. João de Deus .
• 1954 - Se inaugura el Festival Cinematográfico de Mar del Plata.
• 1957 - Os capacetes azuis ocuparam a Faixa de Gaza .
• 1957 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.
• 1957 - Cynthia Rothrock,was born, actress and martial artist .
• 1958 - Gary Numan, was born, singer .
• 1959 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery .
• 1959 - Aidan Quinn, was born, actor .
• 1961 - Camryn Manheim, was born, actress (The Practice) .
• 1961 - Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes setting a new world record.
• 1963 - Um grupo de oficiais liderado pelo Coronel Ziad Hariri depõem o governo sírio e estabelecem um Conselho Nacional de Revolução.
• 1963 - Kathy Ireland model/actress (Alien From LA, Side Out) .
• 1965 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
• 1966 - Vietnam War: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam.
• 1966 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
• 1970 - El Partido de Conciliación Nacional obtiene la mayoría de votos en las elecciones parlamentarias celebradas en El Salvador.
• 1970 - Jason Elam,was born, American football player .
• 1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in the first of three epic bouts. Frazier defends the world Heavyweight title in a star-studded Madison Square Garden.
• 1971- Harold Lloyd, dies, actor, (b. 1893) .
• 1972 - The Goodyear blimp flies for the first time.
• 1972 - Fergal O'Brien, was born Irish Snooker player .
• 1973 - Ron Pigpen McKernan of the Grateful Dead, dies (b. 1945) .
• 1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
• 1975 - George Stevens, dies, director, producer, cinematographer, (b. 1904) .
• 1976 - Portugal e Angola estabelecem relações diplomáticas.
• 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr., was born, actor .
• 1977 - James Van Der Beek,was born, actor .
• 1983 - President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire.
• 1983 - Visita del Papa Juan Pablo II a Honduras.
• 1983 - Fallece Chabuca Granda, compositora peruana.
• 1983 - William Walton, dies, composer, (b. 1902) .
• 1988 - Henryk Szeryng, dies, violinist, (b. 1918) .
• 1988 - Two United States Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky killing 17 servicemen.
• 1988 - Morreu o cirurgião português Francisco Gentil Martins .
• 1990 - El Movimiento 19 de Abril entrega las armas en su campamento de Santo Domingo. Termina así uno de los pocos procesos de paz exitosos en Colombia.
• 1992 - Red Callender, dies, composer .
• 1993 - Billy Eckstine, jazz dies, musician, (b. 1914) .
• 1995 - Costis Stephanopoulos becomes President of Greece .
• 1998 - Ray Nitschke, dies American football star .
• 1998 - Oleada de criticas por el nombramiento de Pinochet como "comandante honorífico".
• 1999 - Joe DiMaggio, dies Baseball Hall of Famer, (b. 1914 ).
• 1999 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, muere, escritor argentino, Premio Cervantes en 1990.
• 1999 - Yago Lamela logra el salto de longitud más importante de la historia del atletismo español con una marca de 8,56 metros.
• 1999 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh.
• 2003 - Adam Faith, dies, English singer and actor, (b. 1940) .
• 2003 - Karen Morley, dies, actress .
• 2004 - A new, democratically-founded constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
• Dia Internacional das Nações Unidas para os Direitos da Mulher (começado a celebrar a partir de 1975).