On this day in History - Mar. 8

• 1126 - Queen Urraca of Castile dies (b. 1082).
• 1144 - Pope Celestine II dies.
• 1202 - Sverre of Norway dies.
• 1223 - Wincent Kadlubek dies (b. 1161). Polish chronicler.
• 1286 - John III, Duke of Brittany was born (d. 1341)
• 1500 - A armada de Pedro Álvares Cabral zarpou do Tejo para a viagem que os levou até ao Brasil.
• 1514 - Amago Haruhisa was born (d. 1562). Japanese samurai and warlord.
• 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.
• 1566 - Don Carlo Gesualdo was born (d. 1613). Italian composer.
• 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).
• 1641 - Xu Xiake dies (b. 1587). Chinese adventurer.
• 1658 - Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark.
• 1659 - Isaac de Beausobre was born (d. 1738). French protestant pastor.
• 1669 - Erupción del volcán Etna, que arrasó parte de la ciudad de Catania.
• 1674 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny dies (b. 1597). French writer.
• 1694 - Criação da CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL, em Salvador-BA;
• 1702 - Very unexpectedly, Anne Stuart, the sister of the childless Mary II, becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland after the death of William III of Orange (b. 1650) from injuries he suffered in a fall from his horse.
• 1712 - John Fothergill was born (d. 1780). English physician.
• 1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach was born (d. 1788). Composer, not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach.
• 1726 - Richard Howe was born (d. 1799). British admiral.
• 1731 - Fundação da Academia dos Unidos em Torre de Moncorvo, Trás-os-Montes.
• 1731 - Ferdinand Brokoff dies (b. 1688). Czech sculptor.
• 1746 - André Michaux was born (d. 1802). French botanist.
• 1748 - William V of Orange was born. Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic.
• 1757 - Thomas Blackwell dies (b. 1701). Scottish classical scholar.
• 1771 - Louis August le Clerc dies (b. 1688). French-born sculptor.
• 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 (d. 5 Feb 1819). would-be First Lady of the United States, wife of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the U.S. [she died before he has been elected president].
• 1788 - Antoine César Becquerel was born (d. 1878). French physicist.
• 1790 - The French Assembly votes to continue slavery in French colonies .
• 1799 - Un incendio, al parecer intencionado, destruye el teatro Odeón, de París.
• 1799 - Simon Cameron was born (d. 1889). U.S. Secretary of War.
• 1807 - António José de Ávila was born (d. 1881). Portuguese politician.
• 1814 - Ede Szigligeti was born (d. 1878). Hungarian dramatist.
• 1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
• 1822 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz was born (d. 1882). Polish inventor.
• 1827 - Wilhelm Bleek was born (d. 1875). German linguist.
• 1830 - João de Deus was born (d. 1896). Portuguese poet. / Nasce, em S. Bartolomeu de Messines, o poeta português João de Deus (m. 1896).
• 1837 - Domingos Sequeira dies (b. 1768). Portuguese painter.
• 1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was born (d. 1935). U.S. Supreme Court justice.
• 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 - Bramwell Booth was born (d. 1929). The 2nd General of The Salvation Army
• 1856 - Tom Roberts was born (d. 1931). Australian artist.
• 1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo was born (d. 1919). Italian composer.
• 1859 - Kenneth Grahame was born (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.
• 1865 - Frederic Goudy was born (d. 1947). American type designer.
• 1867 - Gregorio de Laferrere was born. Argentine politician and theatre author.
• 1869 - Hector Berlioz dies (b. 1803). French composer (Symphony Fantastic).
• 1872 - Anna Held was born (d. 1918). Polish-born actress and singer.
• 1872 - Cornelius Krieghoff dies (b. 1815). Canadian painter.
• 1874 - Millard Fillmore dies (b. 1800). 13th President of the United States.
• 1879 - Otto Hahn was born (d. 1968). German chemist, recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 1884 - Susan B. Anthony testifies before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.
• 1886 - Edward Calvin Kendall was born (d. 4 May 1972). American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950, jointly with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein for research on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones.
• 1887 - Henry Ward Beecher dies (b. 1913). American clergyman.
• 1887 - James Buchanan Eads dies (b. 1820). American engineer.
• 1888 - Stuart Chase was born (d. 16 Nov, 1985). Writer: Men and Machines, Power of Words, A New Deal [inspired Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal].
• 1889 - John Ericsson dies (b. 1803). Swedish inventor and engineer.
• 1891 - Sam Jaffe was born (d. 1984). American actor.
• 1892 - Mississippi John Hurt was born (d. 1966). American blues singer and guitarist.
• 1892 - Juana de Ibarburu was born. Uryguyan poetess.
• 1896 - Charlotte Whitton was born (d. 1975). Canadian politician, Mayor of Ottawa.
• 1899 - Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899, prequel for Eintracht Frankfurt is founded
• 1899 - Elmer Keith was born (d. 1984). Firearms enthusiast and author.
• 1900 - Howard Aiken was born (d. 1973). American mathematician, engineer.
• 1902 - Louise Beavers was born (d. 1962). American 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 (d. 1973). Actor.
• 1906 - Moro Crater Massacre: US troops occupying the Philippines massacre about 600 men, women and children taking refuge in a crater.
• 1907 - Constantine Karamanlis was born (d. 1998). Greek politician.
• 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 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time.
• 1911 - Alan Hovhaness was born (d. 2000). American composer.
• 1912 - Preston Smith was born (d. 2003). Governor of Texas.
• 1914 - Fernando Pessoa cria o heterónimo Alberto Caeiro e escreve Guardador de Rebanhos.
• 1914 - José Bernardino Blanc de Portugal was born in Lisbon (d. 1981). Portuguese poet.
• 1914 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich was born (d. 1987). Russian physicist.
• 1915 - Ruy Cinatti was born in London (d. 12 Oct 1986). Portuguese poet and scientist.
• 1915 - Tapio Rautavaara was born (d. 1979). Finnish athlete, actor, singer.
• 1916 - John Seybold was born (d. 2004). American economist and computer typesetting pioneer.
• 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 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin dies (b. 1838). German aircraft manufacturer
• 1917 - Los Estados Unidos invaden Cuba por tercera vez.
• 1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating pandemic.
• 1920 - Rafael Obligado dies. Argentine poet.
• 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 - Alan Hale, Jr. was born (d. 1990). American actor.
• 1921 - Cyd Charisse [Tula Ellice Finklea] was born. Actress and dancer : Grand Hotel, Singin’ in the Rain; Silk Stockings, Party Girl, Deep in My Heart .
• 1922 - Heinar Kipphardt was born in Heidersdorf, Silesia (d. 1982). German plywright and novelist.
• 1922 - Shigeru Mizuki was born. Japanese soldier and Mangaka
• 1922 - Carl Furillo was born (d. 1989). American baseball player.
• 1923 - Walter Jens was born. German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor, and writer.
• 1923 - Albert Einstein es investido doctor "honoris causa" por la Universidad Central de Madrid.
• 1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals dies (b. 1837). Dutch physicist Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1923 - Krisjanis Barons dies (b. 1835). Latvian writer.
• 1924 - Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah
• 1925 - Warren Bennis was born. American educator and author.
• 1926 - Francisco Rabal was born (d. 2001) Spanish actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra, Divinas palabras, etc) .
• 1927 - Dick Hyman was born. American pianist, conductor, and composer
• 1928 - Gerald Bull was born (d. 1990). Canadian engineer.
• 1929 - Hebe Camargo was born in Taubaté, São Paulo. "Queen of Brazilian Television" (Rainha da TV Brasileira).
• 1930 - Bob Grim was born (d. 1996). Baseball player.
• 1930 - El Mahatma Gandhi ordena el inicio de la desobediencia civil en la India.
• 1930 - William Howard Taft dies (b. 1857). President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1931 - John McPhee was born. American writer .
• 1931 - Neil Postman was born. American cultural critic
• 1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
• 1936 - Gábor Szabó was born (d. 1982). Hungarian jazz guitarist.
• 1937 - Comienza la Batalla de Guadalajara .
• 1937 - Juvénal Habyarimana was born (d. 1994). 3rd President of Rwanda
• 1937 - Howie Morenz dies (b. 1902). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1938 - Pete Dawkins was born. American football player
• 1939 - Lidia Skoblikova was born. USSR speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64) .
• 1939 - Robert Tear was born. Welsh tenor .
• 1939 - Jim Bouton was born. baseball player, author, entrepreneur.
• 1940 - Susan Clark was born. Canadian actress.
• 1941 - Sherwood Anderson dies (b. 1876). American author.
• 1942 - Ann Packer was born. British athlete.
• 1942 - Dick Allen was born. Baseball player.
• 1942 - José Raúl Capablanca dies (b. 1888). Cuban chess player.
• 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. English actress.
• 1944 - Pepe Romero was born in Málaga. Spanish guitarist.
• 1944 - Sergey Nikitin was born. Russian composer.
• 1945 - Jim Chapman was born. American politician .
• 1945 - Micky Dolenz was born. American actor, director and musician ("The Monkees") .
• 1945 - Anselm Kiefer was born. German painter.
• 1945 - As tropas aliadas tomaram a cidade alemã de Bona .
• 1946 - Randy Meisner was born. American musician ("The Eagles") .
• 1946 - Tonicha was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1946 - Linda Kelliher Samets was born. American entrepreneur
• 1947 - Carole Bayer Sager was born. American composer.
• 1948 - Gary Numan was born. English musician.
• 1948 - Peggy March was born. American pop singer
• 1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
• 1949 - Teófilo Cubillas "Nene" was born. Peruvian footballer.
• 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.
• 1952 - George Felix Allen was born. Former U.S. Senator from Virginia
• 1953 - Bob Brozman was born. American musician
• 1953 - Jim Rice was born. Baseball player
• 1954 - Se inaugura el Festival Cinematográfico de Mar del Plata.
• 1954 - David Wilkie was born. Scottish swimmer.
• 1954 - Cheryl Baker was born. British singer (Bucks Fizz)
• 1955 - Don Ashby was born (d. 1981). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1956 - John Kapelos was born. Canadian actor.
• 1957 - Cynthia Rothrock was born. American actress and martial artist.
• 1957 - Os capacetes azuis ocuparam a Faixa de Gaza .
• 1957 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.
• 1957 - The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which declares ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
• 1958 - Gary Numan was born. British singer.
• 1959 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery .
• 1959 - George Lincoln Rockwell founds the American Nazi Party in Arlington, Virginia.
• 1959 - Aidan Quinn was born. American actor.
• 1961 - Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes setting a new world record.
• 1961 - Camryn Manheim was born. American actress
• 1961 - Larry Murphy was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 - Thomas Beecham dies (b. 1879). English conductor.
• 1963 - Um grupo de oficiais liderado pelo Coronel Ziad Hariri depõem o governo sírio e estabelecem um Conselho Nacional de Revolução.
• 1963 - Kathy Ireland was born. American model and actress (Alien from LA, Side Out)
• 1963 - Lorelei was born. American fetish model, photographer
• 1963 - Mike Lalor was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
• 1965 - Fátima Lopes was born. Portuguese fashion designer
• 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.
• 1968 - Bill Graham opens the Fillmore East in New York City.
• 1968 - Michael Bartels was born. German race car driver.
• 1968 - Shawn Mullins was born. American musician.
• 1969 - Andrea Parker was born. American actress, ballet dancer
• 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 (b. 1893). American actor.
• 1972 - The Goodyear blimp flies for the first time.
• 1972 - Fergal O'Brien was born. Irish Snooker player.
• 1972 - Angie Hart was born. Australian pop singer
• 1972 - Fergal O'Brien was born. Irish snooker player
• 1972 - Georgios Georgiadis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1972 - Erich von dem Bach dies (b. 1899). Nazi official.
• 1973 - Anneke van Giersbergen was born. Dutch singer (The Gathering)
• 1973 - Boris Kodjoe was born. Austrian model
• 1973 - Kurt Mollekens was born. Belgian racing car driver
• 1973 - Ron Pigpen McKernan dies (b. 1945). American musician of the Grateful Dead
• 1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
• 1975 - Fardeen Khan was born. Indian Actor.
• 1975 - Peggy Zina was born. Greek singer
• 1975 - George Stevens dies (b. 1904). American director, producer and cinematographer
• 1976 - Portugal e Angola estabelecem relações diplomáticas.
• 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr. was born. American actor.
• 1976 - Hines Ward was born. American football player.
• 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr. was born. American actor
• 1976 - Juan Encarnacion was born. Baseball player.
• 1976 - Gaz Coombes was born. English singer (Supergrass)
• 1976 - Alfons Rebane dies (b. 1908). Estonian military commander.
• 1977 - James Van Der Beek was born. American actor .
• 1977 - Johann Vogel was born. Swiss footballer
• 1978 - The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
• 1979 - Tom Chaplin was born. English singer (Keane)
• 1979 - Nick Zano was born. American actor
• 1981 - Michael Beauchamp was born. Australian footballer
• 1982 - Nicoleta Onel was born. Romanian gymnast
• 1982 - Nicolas Armindo was born. Race car driver
• 1982 - Leonidas Kabantais was born. Greek footballer
• 1983 - President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire.
• 1983 - Visita del Papa Juan Pablo II a Honduras.
• 1983 - Chabuca Granda dies. Peruvian composer.
• 1983 - William Walton dies (b. 1902). English composer.
• 1985 - A car-bombiing in Beirut in front of the mosque kills 85 people and injures 175.
• 1985 - Edward Andrews dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 1988 - Amar Singh Chamkila dies (b. 1961). Punjabi folk singer.
• 1988 - Henryk Szeryng dies (b. 1918). Polish-born violinist.
• 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.
• 1990 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel was born. American conjoined twins.
• 1991 - Devon Werkheiser was born. American actor
• 1992 - Charlie Ray was born. American actress
• 1992 - Red Callender dies. Composer .
• 1993 - Billy Eckstine dies (b. 1914). American jazz musician.
• 1995 - Costis Stephanopoulos becomes President of Greece .
• 1998 - Oleada de criticas por el nombramiento de Pinochet como "comandante honorífico".
• 1998 - Ray Nitschke dies (b. 1936). American football player.
• 1999 - António Campos dies (b. 1922). Portuguese film director.
• 1999 - Peggy Cass dies (b. 1924). American actress and comedienne.
• 1999 - Joe DiMaggio dies (b. 1914). American baseball player
• 1999 - Adolfo Bioy Casares dies. Argentine writer. Cervantes Prize winner in 1990.
• 1999 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh.
• 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.
• 2000 - A collision between two Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people.
• 2001 - Edward Winter dies (b. 1937). American actor.
• 2003 - Adam Faith dies (b. 1940). English singer and actor.
• 2003 - Karen Morley dies (b. 1909). American actress .
• 2004 - A new, democratically-founded constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
• 2005 - The GAT Underground is officially started as proclaimed by Geral Corasjo.
• 2004 - Abu Abbas dies (b. 1948). Founder of the Palestine Liberation Front.
• 2005 - Aslan Maskhadov dies (b. 1951). Chechen leader.
• 2005 - César Lattes dies (b. 1924). Brazilian physicist.
• 2006 - Champions League : Liverpool 0 - 2 Benfica and Benfica put Liverpool knock-out
• Catholicism - Feast day of St John of God.
• In many countries, it is International Women's Day / Dia Internacional das Nações Unidas para os Direitos da Mulher (começado a celebrar a partir de 1975).