SomeFacts | March 8

On this day - March 8

1010 — Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.

1126 — Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, ...

1262 — Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army ...

1558 — The city of Pori (Swedish: Björneborg) is founded by Duke John ...

1658 — Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern ...

1702 — Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen ...

1722 — The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from ...

1736 — Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah ...

1775 — An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, ...

1782 — Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in ...

1801 — War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a ...

1844 — The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, was reopened after 45 ...

1844 — King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

1868 — Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the ...

1910 — French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to ...

1916 — World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to ...

1917 — The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by ...

1917 — International Women's Day protests in Petrograd mark the ...

1921 — Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated ...

1924 — A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.

1936 — Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car ...

1937 — Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.

1942 — World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, ...

1942 — World War II: The Dutch East Indies surrender Java to the ...

1949 — President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-Vietnamese emperor ...

1950 — The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production.

1962 — A Turkish Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes into Mount ...

1963 — The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup ...

1965 — Aeroflot Flight 513 crashes during takeoff from Kuybyshev ...

1965 — Vietnam War: US Marines arrive at Da Nang.

1966 — Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, is destroyed by a ...

1979 — Images taken by Voyager 1 prove the existence of volcanoes on ...

1979 — Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first ...

1983 — Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. ...

1985 — A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric ...

1988 — Aeroflot Flight 3379 is hijacked by the Ovechkin family and ...

1994 — A collision at Indira Gandhi International Airport kills 9 ...

2001 — Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-102, carrying the ...

2004 — A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.

2010 — Headlined by Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair, TNA Wrestling moved its ...

2014 — In one of aviation's greatest mysteries, Malaysia ...

2017 — The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of ...

2018 — The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) was ...

2021 — Twenty-eight political institutions in Myanmar establish the ...

2021 — International Women's Day marches in Mexico become ...