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.

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  Oscar I of Sweden
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  Nelson's Pillar
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  Mayan ruins at Copán
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  Egyptian women protesters during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
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  Raymonde de Laroche
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  Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (the missing aircraft, 9M-MRO)
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  Johannes Kepler
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  Nader Shah

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
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	needs more footnotes, outdated
Petra Kvitová (b. 1990)	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 1576 – A letter to King Philip II of Spain contained the first European mention of the Mayan ruins of Copán in modern 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 rest.
• 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, U.S., killed all 171 miners working there.
• 1963 – The Ba'ath Party came 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.
• 1966 – Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar with a statue of Lord Nelson on top in Dublin, Ireland, was severely damaged by a bomb.
• 1978 – BBC Radio 4 began transmitting Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other media formats.
• Born/died this day: Beatrice of Castile (b. 1293) · Gladys Bustamante (b. 1912) · Juvénal Habyarimana (b. 1937) · Haseeb Ahsan (d. 2013)

March 8: International Women's Day

Anne of Great Britain

• 1618 – German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
• 1702 – Anne (pictured) became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding William III.
• 1919 – During the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul, exiling him to Malta.
• 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.

Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge (d. 1819) · Beatrice Shilling (b. 1909) · Alfons Rebane (d. 1976)

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