History for March 8

History for March 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841, Claire Trevor 1909 , Alan Hale, Jr. 1918 


Mickey Dolenz 1945 - Singer, musician (The Monkees), actor , Carole Bayer Sager 1947, "Little" Peggy March 1948 - Singer 


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


1862 - The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" was launched.


1894 - A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York. It was the first animal control law in the U.S.


1933 - Self-liquidating scrip money was issued for the first time at Franklin, IN.


1945 - Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She later became the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II.


1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional.


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.