Mar 1st, 2005, 06:02 PM
March 8th
Events
1782 - Gnadenhutten massacre: Pennsylvania militiamen kill 93 Native Americans in Ohio.
1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway
1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1906 - Moro Crater Massacre: US troops occupying the Philippines massacre about 600 men, women and children taking refuge in a crater.
1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating pandemic.
1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1942 - World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
1943 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
1950 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
1959 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery
1961 - Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes setting a new world record.
1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in the first of three epic bouts. Frazier defends the world Heavyweight title in a star-studded Madison Square Garden.
1972 - The Goodyear blimp flies for the first time.
1983 - President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire.
1988 - Two United States Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky killing 17 servicemen.
1999 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh.
2004 - A new, democratically-founded constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
Births
1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, composer, not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1788)
1783 - Hannah Van Buren, would-be First Lady of the United States (d. 1819)
1957 - Cynthia Rothrock, actress and martial artist
1959 - Aidan Quinn, actor
1961 - Camryn Manheim, actress (The Practice)
1970 - Jason Elam, American football player
1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr., actor
1977 - James Van Der Beek, actor
1982 - Timothy Wilson, gamer
Deaths
1144 - Pope Celestine II
1702 - King William III of England, (b. 1650)
1841 - King Charles XIV / Carl III of Sweden-Norway, (b. 1763)
1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, (b. 1800)
1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States, (b. 1857)
1973 - Ron Pigpen McKernan of the Grateful Dead, (b. 1945)
1993 - Billy Eckstine, jazz musician, (b. 1914)
1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football star
1999 - Joe DiMaggio, Baseball Hall of Famer, (b. 1914)
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