History for March 8

History for March 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841, Otto Hahn 1879, 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.


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.


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.