Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 8
This is a list of selected March 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Anne of Great Britain
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Mother's Day in various countries | refimprove section |
| 1010 – Persian poet Ferdowsi completed his masterpiece, the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran and related societies. | Ferdowsi: refimprove section; Shahnameh: original research |
| 1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran. | refimprove section |
| 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, died at the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhutten massacre. | needs more footnotes |
| 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange drafted its constitution. | Already featured on May 17 |
| 1844 – Oscar I acceded to the throne of Sweden-Norway. | refimprove section (Ancestry) |
| 1916 – First World War: A British force unsuccessfully attempted to relieve the Ottoman siege of Kut (in present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila. | refimprove |
| 1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut killed more than 80 people and injured almost 200 others. | synthesis |
| 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, prompting the most expensive search in aviation history. | needs more footnotes, outdated |
| Louie Nunn |b|1924 | TFA for 2020-12-28 |
Eligible
- 1618 – German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
- 1655 – The court of Northampton County, Virginia, issued a ruling that made John Casor the first person of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be declared a slave for life as a result of a civil suit.
- 1702 – Anne became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding William III.
- 1919 – During the Egyptian Revolution, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul, exiling him to Malta.
- 1963 – The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council for the Revolutionary Command.
- 1978 – BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other formats.
- 1983 – Cold War: During a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
- 2017 – The Azure Window, a limestone natural arch in Gozo, Malta, collapsed during a storm.
- Born/died this day: | Adela of Normandy |d|1137| Beatrice of Castile |b|1293| Simon Cameron |b|1799| Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge |d|1819| Beatrice Shilling |b|1909| Gladys Bustamante |b|1912| Juvénal Habyarimana |b|1937| Alfons Rebane |d|1976| Petra Kvitová |b|1990| Haseeb Ahsan |d|2013
March 8: International Women's Day; National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2021); Aurat March in Pakistan; Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations (2021)
- 1576 – A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first mention of the Maya ruins of Copán (pictured) in present-day Honduras.
- 1658 – After a devastating defeat in the Second Northern War, King Frederick III of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his Danish territory to Sweden to save the remainder.
- 1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.
- 1924 – Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah, killed all 171 miners working there.
- 1966 – Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar topped by a statue of Lord Nelson in Dublin, Ireland, was severely damaged by a bomb.
- Pope Celestine II (d. 1144)
- Bramwell Booth (b. 1856)
- José Raúl Capablanca (d. 1942)