March 8, 1995 -26 degrees F (-32.2 degrees C) in Bismarck, North Dakota
March 8, 1995 Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece
March 8, 1995 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
March 8, 1994 20th People's Choice Awards
March 8, 1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
March 8, 1993 Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
March 8, 1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
March 8, 1992 22nd Easter Seal Telethon
March 8, 1992 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
March 8, 1991 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman
March 8, 1989 "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 621 performances
March 8, 1989 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
March 8, 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
March 8, 1987 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
March 8, 1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
March 8, 1985 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
March 8, 1983 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R.
March 8, 1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
March 8, 1983 President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire"
March 8, 1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 54 performances
March 8, 1981 Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
March 8, 1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
March 8, 1980 Greg Chappell 235 and Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
March 8, 1980 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 8, 1979 5th People's Choice Awards
March 8, 1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
March 8, 1976 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
March 8, 1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
March 8, 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris
March 8, 1973 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 8, 1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
March 8, 1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
March 8, 1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
March 8, 1970 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting
March 8, 1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
March 8, 1968 Fillmore East opens
March 8, 1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw
March 8, 1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
March 8, 1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
March 8, 1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
March 8, 1965 1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
March 8, 1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
March 8, 1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
March 8, 1962 Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)
March 8, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 8, 1961 Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in New York City
March 8, 1961 U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
March 8, 1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 95 performances
March 8, 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
March 8, 1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
March 8, 1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
March 8, 1958 William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters
March 8, 1957 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
March 8, 1953 "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances
March 8, 1953 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
March 8, 1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government
March 8, 1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
March 8, 1951 International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
March 8, 1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
March 8, 1949 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
March 8, 1948 Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional
March 8, 1946 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York City)
March 8, 1945 "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain
March 8, 1944 U.S. resumes bombing Berlin
March 8, 1943 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg
March 8, 1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
March 8, 1941 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
March 8, 1939 Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres
March 8, 1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
March 8, 1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
March 8, 1929 U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
March 8, 1927 Pan American Airlines incorporates
March 8, 1924 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
March 8, 1920 Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations
March 8, 1917 Russian revolution breaks out in Petrograd
March 8, 1916 U.S. invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
March 8, 1915 1st U.S. Navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
March 8, 1913 Federal League organizes with 6 teams
March 8, 1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes
March 8, 1911 1st International Woman's Day
March 8, 1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
March 8, 1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers
March 8, 1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games
March 8, 1904 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
March 8, 1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
March 8, 1900 NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)