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Birthday March 08, 1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach |
Birthday March 08, 1783 Hannah Hoes Van Buren, 1st lady |
Birthday March 08, 1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create plastic surgery |
Birthday March 08, 1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court Justice |
Birthday March 08, 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author (The Wind, Willows) |
Birthday March 08, 1879 Otto Hahn, co-discovered nuclear fission |
Birthday March 08, 1886 Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950) |
Birthday March 08, 1891 Sam Jaffe, Actor (Gunga Din, Dr. Zorba on Ben Casey) |
Birthday March 08, 1909 Claire Trevor, Actress |
Birthday March 08, 1921 Cyd Charisse, dancer, Amarillo Tx |
Birthday March 08, 1939 George Reed, astronomy writer & cartoonist |
Birthday March 08, 1939 Jim Bouton, Yankee pitcher (Ball Four) |
Birthday March 08, 1939 Mike Lowry, (D-Wash.), Rep |
Birthday March 08, 1943 Lynn Redgrave, London, Actress (Georgie Girl) |
Birthday March 08, 1947 Carole Bayer Sager, NY - Mrs Burt Bachrach |
History March 08, 1669 Mount Etna erupts |
History March 08, 1782 Pennsylvania militiamen senselessly murder Patriot allies |
History March 08, 1801 Anglo-Ottoman force takes Abukir Bay |
History March 08, 1862 C.S.S. Virginia terrorizes Union navy |
History March 08, 1862 Confederate ironclad Merrimack launched |
History March 08, 1893 Emmet Dalton goes to prison |
History March 08, 1917 February Revolution begins in Russia |
History March 08, 1917 US invades Cuba for 3rd time |
History March 08, 1934 Edwin Hubble photograph shows as many galaxies as Milky Way stars |
History March 08, 1935 Thomas Wolfe's second novel, Of Time and the River, is published |
History March 08, 1942 Dutch surrender on Java |
History March 08, 1945 Intl Women's Day |
History March 08, 1946 1st helicopter licensed for coml use - NYC |
History March 08, 1950 VW bus, icon of counterculture movement, goes into production |
History March 08, 1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel - BR Walters |
History March 08, 1951 The Lonely Hearts Killers are executed |
History March 08, 1957 Egypt opens the Suez Canal |
History March 08, 1959 Groucho - Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together |
History March 08, 1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day |
History March 08, 1965 1st US forces arrive in Vietnam |
History March 08, 1965 U.S. Marines land at Da Nang |
History March 08, 1968 Bill Graham's rock empire goes bi-coastal as the Fillmore East opens |
History March 08, 1971 Ali battles Frazier for heavyweight championship |
History March 08, 1975 Thieu orders force withdrawal |
History March 08, 1976 Largest observed falling single stony meteorite (Jiling - China) |
History March 08, 1982 United States accuses Soviets of using poison gas |
History March 08, 1983 Reagan refers to U.S.S.R. as evil empire again |
History March 08, 1993 MTV’s highest rated series premieres |
History March 08, 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight vanishes with more than 200 people aboard |