WHAT HAPPENED ON 8. MARCH
Want to find out what all happened on 8. March

World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila. (8. March 1916)

International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar). (8. March 1917)

The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. (8. March 1917)

The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established. (8. March 1920)

Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid. (8. March 1921)

The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. (8. March 1924)

Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race. (8. March 1936)

Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins. (8. March 1937)

World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java. (8. March 1942)

Thirteen thousand troops sent by the Kuomintang government of China arrive in Taiwan after the 228 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement. (8. March 1947)

Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason. (8. March 1949)

President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-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. (8. March 1949)

Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. (8. March 1957)

The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia. (8. March 1957)

Ghana joins the United Nations. (8. March 1957)

The Ba'ath Party comes 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. (8. March 1963)

A bomb planted by Irish Republicans destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin. (8. March 1966)

Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. (8. March 1974)

Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time. (8. March 1979)

U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire". (8. March 1983)