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March 8 Historical Events

The following events took place on March 8. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 46 events. Showing 31 - 46.

  • 1949
    Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason.
  • 1949
    President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
  • 1957
    Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
  • 1957
    The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • 1957
    Ghana joins the United Nations.
  • 1963
    The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
  • 1965
    3,500 United States Marines are the first land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
  • 1966
    A bomb planted by Irish Republican Army militants destroys Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin.
  • 1971
    The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
  • 1974
    Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
  • 1978
    The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
  • 1979
    Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
  • 1983
    While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an “evil empire”.
  • 1985
    A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
  • 2004
    A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.
  • 2014
    Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The aircraft is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia with the loss of all 239 people aboard.

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