March 8 1618 - Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion. 1702 - Englands Queen Anne took the throne upon the death of King William III. 1782 - The Gnadenhutten massacre took place. About 90 Indians were killed by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians. 1853 - The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, DC. 1855 - A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, NY. 1862 - The Confederate ironclad Merrimack was launched. 1880 - U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes declared that the United States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama. 1887 - The telescopic fishing rod was patented by Everett Horton. 1894 - A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York. It was the first animal control law in the U.S. 1904 - The Bundestag in Germany lifted the ban on the Jesuit order of priests. 1905 - In Russia, it was reported that the peasant revolt was spreading to Georgia. 1907 - The British House of Commons turned down a womens suffrage bill. 1909 - Pope Pius X lifted the church ban on interfaith marriages in Hungary. 1910 - In France, Baroness de Laroche became the first woman to obtain a pilots license. 1910 - The King of Spain authorized women to attend universities. 1911 - In Europe, International Womens Day was celebrated for the first time. 1911 - British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict. 1917 - Russias February Revolution began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the February Revolution due to Russias use of the Old Style calendar. 1917 - The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. 1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato was assassinated while leaving the Parliament in Madrid. 1921 - French troops occupied Dusseldorf. 1933 - Self-liquidating scrip money was issued for the first time at Franklin, IN. 1941 - Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests. 1942 - During World War II, Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma. 1943 - Japanese forces attacked American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. The battle lasted five days. 1945 - Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She later became the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II. 1946 - In New York City, the Journal American became the first commercial business to receive a helicopter license. 1946 - The French naval fleet arrived at Haiphong, Vietnam. 1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional. 1953 - A census bureau report indicated that 239,000 farmers had quit farming over the last 2 years. 1954 - France and Vietnam opened talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina. 1954 - Herb McKenley set a world record for the quarter mile when he ran the distance in 46.8 seconds. 1957 - The International Boxing Club was ruled a monopoly putting it in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. 1959 - Groucho, Chico and Harpo made their final TV appearance together. 1961 - Max Conrad circled the globe in a record time of eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in the Piper Aztec. 1965 - The U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam. They were the first U.S. combat troops to land in Vietnam. 1966 - Australia announced that it would triple the number of troops in Vietnam. 1973 - Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain. 234 people were injured. 1982 - The U.S. accused 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. 1986 - Four French television crewmembers were abducted in west Beirut. All four were eventually released. 1988 - In Fort Campbell, KY, 17 U.S. soldiers were killed when two Army helicopters collided in midair. 1989 - In Lhasa, Tibet, martial law was declared after three days of protest against Chinese rule. 1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. 1999 - The White House, under President Bill Clinton, directed the firing of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The firing was a result of alleged security violations. 2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade. 2005 - In norther Chechnya, Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed during a raid by Russian forces. Music History 1714 - Composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born. 1941 - Horace Heidt and his orchestra recorded Gbye Now. 1962 - The Beatles performed for the first time on the BBC in Great Britain. The show was Teenagers Turn. 1964 - The Dave Clark 5 made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. 1968 - The Fillmore East opened in New York City. 1970 - Diana Ross opened her first outing as a solo performer in Framingham, MA. 1973 - Paul McCartney pled guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside of his Scottish countryside farm. He claimed that a fan had given him the seeds and that he did not know what they would grow. He was fined $240. 1974 - Bad Company gave their debut performance in England. 1987 - Bob Seger ended a tour that he claimed would be his last. It was not his last tour however. 1993 - Beavis and Butthead premiered on MTV as a series. Birthdays Karl Ferdinand von Grafe 1787 Alvan Clark 1804 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841 Kenneth Grahame 1859 Otto Hahn 1879 Stuart Chase 1888 Louise Beavers 1902 Claire Trevor 1909 Alan Hale, Jr. 1918 Cyd Charisse 1923 Sean McClory 1924 Dick Hyman 1927 Sue Ane Langdon 1936 - Actress Lew DeWitt 1938 - Singer (The Statler Brothers) Jim Bouton 1939 - Baseball player, author Susan Clark 1940 Ralph Ellis 1942 - Musician (The Swinging Blue Jeans) Lynn Redgrave 1943 - Actress Mickey Dolenz 1945 - Singer, musician (The Monkees), actor Randy Meisner 1946 - Musician (The Eagles) Carole Bayer Sager 1947 Mike Allsup 1947 - Musician (Three Dog Night) Little Peggy March 1948 - Singer Jamie Lyn Bauer 1949 Jim Rice 1953 - Baseball player Cheryl Baker 1954 Clive Burr (Iron Maiden) 1957 Gary Numan 1958 - Singer (Tubeway Army) Pauline Murray 1958 - Musician (Penetration, Invisible Girls) Aidan Quinn 1959 - Actor Lester Holt 1950 - News anchor (Today) Jimmy Dormire 1960 - Country musician (Confederate Railroad) Camryn Manheim 1961 - Actress (The Practice, Ghost Whisperer) Cheryl Salt James (Salt-N-Pepa) 1964 Peter Gill (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) 1964 Shawn Mullins (The Thorns) 1968 Andrea Parker 1969 Jason Elam 1970 - Football player Boris Kodjoe 1973 - Actor Hines Ward 1976 - NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers) Freddie Prinze Jr. 1976 - Actor James Van Der Beek 1977 - Actor (Dawsons Creek) Kameelah Williams 1978 - Singer (702) Tom Chaplin 1979 - Singer (Keane) Bob Moffatt (The Moffatts) 1984 Clint Moffatt (The Moffatts) 1984 David Moffatt (The Moffatts) 1984 Today in Disaster History 1981 - In Argentina, forty-five people died and at least 120 were injured when a passenger train collided with two derailed freight cars. Today in Sports History 1930 - The New York Yankees signed Babe Ruth to a two-year contract worth $160,000. 1954 - Herb McKenley set a world record for the quarter mile when he ran the distance in 46.8 seconds. 1954 - The Milwaukee Hawks and the Baltimore Bullets played the first double header in NBA history. 1957 - The International Boxing Club was ruled a monopoly putting it in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. 1971 - Joe Frazier retained his world heavyweight championship by defeating Muhammad Ali in a 15-round decision. It was Alis first loss in 32 professional fights. 1986 - Martina Navratilova became the first woman tennis player to win more than $10 million in her career. 2004 - Todd Bertuzzi (Vancouver Canucks) hit Steve Moore (Colorado Avalanche) in the side of the head from behind and drove his head into the ice. Moore landed face-first with Bertuzzi on top of him. Moore suffered a broken neck, a concussion and deep cuts on his face. On March 11, the NHL suspended Bertuzzi for the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs and announced that his eligibility would be assessed the following season and would take into account Moores health and the progression of his recovery. 2006 - NFL owners and the players union agreed on a union proposal which extended the collective bargaining agreement for six years.
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