On This Day: 8 March

8 March in Indian history

• 2014Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, with aircraft debris subsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean.India
• 1994A collision at Indira Gandhi International Airport kills 9 people.India

8 March in world history

• 2018The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) is held on International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then held annually across Pakistan, and the feminist slogan "Mera Jism Meri Marzi" (My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodi
• 2010Headlined by Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair, TNA Wrestling moves its flagship program, TNA Impact!, to Monday night. This effort to go "big time live" failed but is notable in the history of professional wrestling television.
• 2001Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-102, carrying the Expedition 2 crew to the International Space Station.
• 1983Cold War: In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. president Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
• 1979Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter.
• 1978BBC 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.
• 1965Vietnam War: US Marines arrive at Da Nang.
• 1963The 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.
• 1962A Turkish Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes into Mount Medetsiz in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey, killing all 11 people on board.
• 1949President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-Vietnamese 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.
• 1942World War II: The Dutch East Indies surrender Java to the Imperial Japanese Army.
• 1937Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
• 1916World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• 1736Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.
• 1655The 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.
• 1576A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first known mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.

Born on 8 March

• 1976Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960Irek Mukhamedov, Russian ballet dancer
• 1936Panditrao Agashe, Indian businessman (died 1986)India
• 1879Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
• 1841Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., American lawyer and jurist (died 1935)

Died on 8 March

• 1982Hatem Ali Jamadar, Bengali politician (born 1872)India
• 1930Edward Terry Sanford, American jurist and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (born 1865)
• 1403Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan (born 1360)
• 1137Adela of Normandy, by marriage countess of Blois (born c. 1067)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 8 March in history?

2018: The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) is held on International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then held annually across Pakistan, and the feminist slogan "Mera Jism Meri Marzi" (My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodi. 2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, with aircraft debris subsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean. 2010: Headlined by Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair, TNA Wrestling moves its flagship program, TNA Impact!, to Monday night. This effort to go "big time live" failed but is notable in the history of professional wrestling television. 2001: Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-102, carrying the Expedition 2 crew to the International Space Station.

What happened on 8 March in Indian history?

2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, with aircraft debris subsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean. 1994: A collision at Indira Gandhi International Airport kills 9 people.

Which famous people were born on 8 March?

Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter (1976); Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player (1961); Irek Mukhamedov, Russian ballet dancer (1960); Panditrao Agashe, Indian businessman (died 1986) (1936).

Which day is observed on 8 March?

International Women's Day; International Women's Day, and its related observances: International Women's Collaboration Brew Day.