TODAY HISTORY LESSON: MARCH 8
1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third Law of Planetary Motion.
1702 Queen Anne becomes the monarch of England upon the death of William III.
1782 A peaceful settlement of Delaware Indians were massacred by militia at Gnadenhutten in Ohio.
1790 George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address.
1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded
1862 The Confederate ironclad C.S.S. Virginia (formerly U.S.S. Merrimack) is launched.
1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads VA: CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor
1867 British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada’s constitution for more than 100 years
1880 President Rutherford B. Hayes declares that the United States will have jurisdiction over any canal built across the Isthmus of Panama.
1894 New York passes 1st state dog license law
1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids & 2 teachers
1916 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1917 The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1917 Russia’s “February Revolution” began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the “February Revolution” due to Russia’s use of the Old Style calendar.
1921 Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while leaving Parliament in Madrid.
1945 Phyllis Mae Daley receives a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She will become the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II.
1948 US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional
1958 William Faulkner says US schools degenerated to become babysitters
1963 Syrian Arab Republic Revolution Day: Military coup in Syria
1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden (New York NY)in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
1973 Two bombs explode near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain injuring 234 people.
1978 The first episode of the radio comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is broadcast
1979 The compact disc is presented to the public
1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter’s satellite Io)
1982 The United States accuses the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas.
1985 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported that 407,700 Americans were millionaires. That was more than double the total from just five years before.
1999 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
2001 The U.S. House of Representatives voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
