What Day of the Week

March 8, 2019 was the 67^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 298 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1655

  John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies.
• 1722

  The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
• 1844

  King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 1917

  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).
• 1921

  Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
• 1942

  World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
• 1957

  Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
• 1957

  Ghana joins the United Nations.
• 1966

  A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin.
• 1985

  A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.

• 1714

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
• 1879

  Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
• 1925

  Warren Bennis, American educator and author
• 1933

  Luca Ronconi, Italian theater and opera director
• 1943

  Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)
• 1944

  Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
• 1974

  Mike Moriarty, American baseball player
• 1975

  Peggy Zina, Greek singer
• 1990

  Kristinia DeBarge, American R&B singer
• 1992

  Charlie Ray, American actress

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