Wednesday, March 08, 2023

History for March 8

History for March 8 - On-This-Day.com 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841
  • 1618 - Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.
  • 1894 - A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York. It was the first animal control law in the U.S.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1965 - The U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam. They were the first U.S. combat troops to land in Vietnam.

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