March 8: Day of the Week
March 8, 2022 was the 67th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 298 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.
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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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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March 8 Historical Event(s)
- 1655John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies.
- 1722The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
- 1775An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America”, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
- 1817The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
- 1844King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 1862American Civil War: The iron-clad Ship CSS (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- 1911International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
- 1917International Women’s Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
- 1917The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
- 1957Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
Who were born on March 8?
- 1726Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (d. 1799)
- 1891Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1931John McPhee, American writer and professor
- 1936Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982)
- 1945Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)
- 1949Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1959Lester Holt, American television journalist
- 1963Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976Ryan Freel, American baseball player
- 1977Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
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