Sunday, March 08, 2015

History for March 8

History for March 8 - On-This-Day.com
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841, Mickey Dolenz 1945 - Singer, musician (The Monkees), actor, Carole Bayer Sager 1947 


1618 - Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion. 


1862 - The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" was launched. 


1880 - U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes declared that the United States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama. 


1911 - British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict. 


1917 - Russia's "February Revolution" began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the "February Revolution" due to Russia's use of the Old Style calendar. 


1941 - Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests. 


1959 - Groucho, Chico and Harpo made their final TV appearance together. 


1965 - The U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam. They were the first U.S. combat troops to land in Vietnam. 


1982 - The U.S. accused the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas. 


2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade. 

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