146 sourced historical events are currently published for March 8. Browse the chronology below or filter this date by place and event type. This collection is expanding, not an exhaustive account of the day.
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On March 8, 1126, Alfonso VII succeeded his mother, Queen Urraca, after her death. His coronation in León took place on March 10.
Succession and coronation took place on different days.
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The Battle of Hausbergen (or Battle of Oberhausbergen) was a historic military engagement that took place in the Alsace region of northeastern France on 8 March 1262. The battle marked the release of the 'burghers' (citizens) of Strasbourg from episcopal authority and gave the bourgeoisie control over politics and commerce. The battle occurred on the fields of Hausbergen, an area of countryside a few miles northwest of the city of Strasbourg.
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The Siege of Chittorgarh was a military campaign launched by Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat Sultanate against the fortress of Chittor, capital of the Kingdom of Mewar under Rana Vikramaditya. The conflicts witnessed two successive sieges between 1533 and 1535, leading to the fort's capture on 8 March 1535 by the Gujarati army. Following the collapse of the Malwa Sultanate, rivalry over its territories ended earlier friendly ties between Gujarat Sultanate and Kingdom of Mewar.
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The Spanish expedition to Tlemcen, also known as Tlemcen War was led by Count Alcaudete between 27 January and 8 March 1543 with the aim of overthrowing the Zayyanid king Abu Zayyan III and replacing him with Abu Abdallah VI. The expedition was successful and Abu Abdallah was restored to the throne as a Spanish vassal.
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Duke John granted a charter for a new trading town at Pori, in what is now western Finland. The new site was chosen in place of nearby Ulvila.
March 8 is the historical Julian charter date, equivalent to March 18, 1558 in the Gregorian calendar.
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The Blockade of the Tetuan River (Spanish: Jornada del Rio de Tetuán) on 8 March 1565 was a successful Spanish blockade of the Tetuan River (present-day Martil river) against the Saadi Sultanate. The Spanish forces were led by Álvaro de Bazán, Alonso de Bazán and Esteban de Guillisastegui, who was wounded during the operation.
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The Treaty of Roskilde was negotiated at the parsonage of Høje Taastrup Church and was concluded on 26 February (OS) or 8 March 1658 (NS) in the Danish city of Roskilde during the Second Northern War between Frederick III of Denmark–Norway and Karl X Gustav of Sweden. After a devastating defeat, Denmark–Norway was forced to give up a third of its territory to save the rest, the ceded lands comprising Blekinge, Bornholm, Bohuslän, Scania and Trøndelag, as well as Halland.
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Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain. In the United States, it is regarded as a standalone conflict. Elsewhere it is viewed as the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession. It is also known as the Third Indian War.
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On March 8, 1702, Anne succeeded William III upon his death, becoming Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland. Her coronation followed on April 23.
March 8 is the Old Style Julian date, with the year numbered from January 1. This records her accession, not her coronation.
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The Battle of Gulnabad (Sunday, March 8, 1722) was fought between the military forces from Hotaki Dynasty and the army of the Safavid Empire. It further cemented the eventual fall of the Safavid dynasty, which had been declining for decades.
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On March 8, 1736, Nader was crowned shah on the Mughan plain after an assembly of leaders accepted him as ruler. His accession displaced the Safavid dynasty and established Afsharid rule.
The Mughan plain spans present-day Azerbaijan and Iran. A precise modern-country location has not yet been confirmed for this record.
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On March 8, 1775, the Pennsylvania Journal published “African Slavery in America”, an essay opposing slavery and the slave trade. It was later attributed to Thomas Paine, but that attribution is disputed.
The publication date is supported; the author’s identity remains disputed.
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The Skirmish at Waters Creek was a minor action fought on March 8, 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. It was fought near Waters Creek in Newport News, Virginia between a group of local Patriot militia and British Army troops.
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The Gnadenhutten massacre, also known as the Moravian massacre, was the killing of 96 Christian Lenape (Delaware) by colonial American militia from Pennsylvania on March 8, 1782 at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio during the American Revolutionary War. The site of the village has been preserved. A reconstructed mission house and cooper's house were built there, and a monument to the dead was erected and dedicated a century later. The burial mound is marked and has been maintained on the site. The village site has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The 1785 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1785, in order to elect the President of New Hampshire. (The office would be renamed to Governor in 1792.) Candidates consisted of John Langdon, George Atkinson, John Sullivan and Josiah Bartlett. Since no candidate received a majority in the popular vote, Langdon was elected by the New Hampshire General Court per the state constitution, despite having come in second in the popular vote.
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The 1791 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1791, in order to elect the President of New Hampshire. (The office would be renamed to Governor in 1792.) Incumbent Anti-Federalist President Josiah Bartlett was re-elected unopposed.
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The action of 8 March 1795 was a minor naval engagement in the Mediterranean theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars. The action was part of series of battles fought in the spring of 1795 between British and French fleets for control of the Ligurian Sea and thus the blockade of the French naval base of Toulon.
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The 1796 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1796, in order to elect the Governor of New Hampshire. Incumbent Federalist Governor John Taylor Gilman was re-elected unopposed.
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The Battle of Abukir of 8 March 1801 was the second pitched battle of the French invasion of Egypt and Syria to be fought at Abu Qir on the Mediterranean coast, near the Nile Delta. The landing of the British expeditionary force under Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby was intended to defeat or drive out an estimated 21,000 remaining French troops in Egypt.
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The 1803 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on March 8, 1803. Incumbent Federalist Governor John Taylor Gilman won re-election to a tenth term, defeating Democratic-Republican candidate, former Governor and United States Senator John Langdon in a re-match of the previous year's election.
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The 1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1808. Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor John Langdon won re-election to a fourth term.
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The Siege of Bergen op Zoom (8 March 1814), took place during the War of the Sixth Coalition between a British force led by Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch and a French garrison under Guilin Laurent Bizanet and Jean-Jacques Ambert. The initial British assault force seized part of the defenses, but a well-managed French counterattacked and compelled much of the assault force to surrender. Bergen op Zoom is a port in the Netherlands about 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of Rotterdam and 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Antwerp in Belgium.
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The 1814 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1814. Incumbent Federalist Governor John Taylor Gilman defeated Democratic-Republican nominee William Plumer in a re-match of the previous year's election.
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The 1825 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1825, in order to elect the governor of New Hampshire. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor David L. Morril won re-election as he ran unopposed.
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The 1831 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1831. Incumbent Democratic Governor Matthew Harvey resigned on February 28, 1831, to take up a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. President of the New Hampshire Senate Joseph M. Harper served as acting Governor for the remainder of Harvey's term.
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The 1836 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1836, to elect the Governor of New Hampshire. The Democratic former U.S. senator from New Hampshire Isaac Hill defeated the Whig candidate Joseph Healey and the Federalist former Attorney General of New Hampshire George Sullivan. Hill's re-election was considered nearly inevitable, and his opponents struggled to recruit a candidate to contest the election.
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The 1842 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1842. Incumbent Democratic Governor John Page did not stand for re-election. Democratic nominee Henry Hubbard defeated Whig nominee Enos Stevens, Independent Democrat nominee John H. White, and Liberty nominee Daniel Hoit with 55.78% of the vote.
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The 1848 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1848, in order to elect the governor of New Hampshire. Incumbent Democratic governor Jared W. Williams won re-election against Whig nominee and former member of the New Hampshire Senate Nathaniel S. Berry.
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The 1853 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1853, in order to elect the governor of New Hampshire. Incumbent Democratic governor Noah Martin won re-election against Whig nominee and former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives James Bell and Free Soil Party nominee John H. White.
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In the 1855 Chicago mayoral election, Know Nothing candidate Levi Boone defeated Democratic incumbent Isaac Lawrence Milliken by a 5.75% margin. The election was held on March 8.
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The 1859 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1859. Incumbent Republican Governor William Haile did not stand for re-election. Republican nominee Ichabod Goodwin defeated Democratic nominee Asa P. Cate with 52.53% of the vote.
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The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (or Virginia) or the Battle of Ironclads, was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies. It was fought over two days, March 8–9, 1862, in Hampton Roads, a roadstead in Virginia where the Elizabeth and Nansemond rivers meet the James River just before it enters Chesapeake Bay adjacent to the city of Norfolk.
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The Battle of Vejle was a battle of the Second Schleswig War that occurred on March 8, 1864, between the Austrian Empire and Denmark at and in the town of Vejle. The Austrians won the battle and their victory opened the way for the Evacuation of Fredericia and the Battle of Jasmund.
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The 1864 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1864. The National Union incumbent Governor Joseph A. Gilmore defeated Democratic nominee Edward W. Harrington with 54.08% of the vote.
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The Sakai incident (堺事件, Sakai Jiken) was a diplomatic incident that occurred on March 8, 1868, in Bakumatsu period Japan involving the deaths of eleven French sailors from the French corvette Dupleix in the port of Sakai near Osaka, Japan. It is also known as the Senshū Sakai incident (泉州堺事件) or the Myōkoku-ji incident (妙国寺事件), and was one of three major diplomatic incidents involving attacks on foreigners in Japan in 1868, the others being the Kobe Incident and the attempted assassination of Harry Parkes.
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The 1870 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1870, in order to elect the governor of New Hampshire. Incumbent Republican governor Onslow Stearns won re-election against Democratic nominee John Bedell, Labor Reform Party nominee Samuel Flint and Temperance nominee Lorenzo D. Barrows.
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The first official football match in Spain between two sides playing under the rules of the English FA was contested between the two oldest clubs in Spain, Recreativo de Huelva and Sevilla FC, on 8 March 1890, held at the Hipódromo de Tablada in Seville.
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In the 1892 Quebec general election on March 8, 1892, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Conservative Party, led by Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville, defeated the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Félix-Gabriel Marchand. Mercier had been accused of corruption and removed from office as Premier by Quebec Lieutenant-governor Auguste-Réal Angers on December 16, 1891.
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The North Tyrone by-election of 1907 was held on 8 March 1907. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP, William Huston Dodd, being appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland 1907-24. It was narrowly won by the Liberal candidate Redmond John Barry in a very high turnout.
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The Aéro-Club de France issued pilot licence No. 36 to Raymonde de Laroche, born Élise Deroche. She became the first woman to earn an airplane pilot licence.
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General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain on 8 March 1914. At stake were all 408 seats in the Congress of Deputies. Though formally competitive, the 1914 general election was held under the customary system of Turno Pacifico; in accordance with a long-standing power-sharing arrangement, elections (under influence by machine bosses called caciques) served as a rubber stamp for a routine handover of power initiated by the King. The 1914 election, as expected, sanctioned the pre-arranged handover from the Liberals to the Conservatives.
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The Battle of Dujaila (Turkish: Sâbis Muharebesi) was fought on 8 March 1916, between British and Ottoman forces during the First World War. The Ottoman forces, led by Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz were besieging Kut, when the Anglo-Indian relief force, led by Lieutenant-General Fenton Aylmer, attempted to relieve the city. The attempt failed, and Aylmer lost 4,000 men.
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The 1917 Hawkes Bay by-election was a by-election held in the eastern North Island electorate of Hawkes Bay during the 19th New Zealand Parliament, on 8 March 1917. It was caused by the death of incumbent MP Robert McNab, and was won by fellow party Liberal Party member Sir John Findlay with a majority of 471 votes.
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The Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia took place between 19 January and 8 March (Old Style [O.S.] 5 January – 23 February) 1918, as part of the broader Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. It pitted the Kingdom of Romania, Russian Republic, Ukrainian People's Republic and anti-Bolshevik factions of the Moldavian Democratic Republic on one side, against the Bolshevik controlled Rumcherod and Odessa Soviet Republic, as well as pro-Bolshevik factions within the Moldavian DR.
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On March 8, 1918, the Anfu Club was formed from the Zhonghe Club in China. Xu Shuzheng helped organise it with Wang Yitang and other politicians associated with Duan Qirui.
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Eduardo Dato e Iradier (12 August 1856 – 8 March 1921) was a Spanish political leader during the Spanish Restoration period. He served three times as Spanish prime minister: from 27 October 1913 to 9 December 1915, from 11 June 1917 to 3 November 1917, and from 28 April 1920 until his assassination by Catalan anarchists. He also held eleven cabinet ministries, and was four times president of the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
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The Castle Gate mine disaster occurred on March 8, 1924, in a coal mine near the town of Castle Gate, Utah (now dismantled), located approximately 90 miles (140 km) southeast of Salt Lake City. All of the 171 men working in the mine were killed in the series of three violent explosions. One worker, the leader of the rescue crew, died from carbon monoxide inhalation while attempting to reach the victims shortly after the explosion. At least 24 out of the mine's 25 mules died in the explosion, along with an unknown number of horses and canaries.
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An election to the County Council of London took place on 8 March 1928. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Labour Party made slight gains at the expense of the Municipal Reform Party, which nonetheless retained a substantial majority.
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An election to the County Council of London took place on 8 March 1934. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Labour Party made large gains from the Municipal Reform Party, and for the first time won control of the council.
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On March 8, 1936, Daytona Beach, Florida, held its inaugural stock car race on a course combining the beach and a public road. The race was scheduled for 250 miles but was stopped at the 75th lap as the tide came in.
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The Battle of Guadalajara (8–23 March 1937) saw the victory of the Spanish Republican Army (Ejército Popular Republicano, or EPR) and of the International Brigades over the Italian and Nationalist forces attempting to encircle Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist forces involved in the Battle of Guadalajara were primarily the Italian Corps of Volunteer Troops (Corpo Truppe Volontarie, or CTV).
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Japanese forces took Rangoon, now Yangon, after British-led troops withdrew. The loss of Burma’s principal port cut an important route for supplies moving from the coast toward China.
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Dutch East Indies officials met Japanese commanders at Kalijati in West Java and accepted unconditional surrender terms. The surrender was announced by radio the following day.
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The 1943 Turkish presidential election was the presidential election held in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 8 March 1943, in which 435 of 455 deputies participated. The current President İsmet İnönü was re-elected as president in the 1st round.
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German troops attacked the village of Sokolovo, where Czechoslovak troops fought alongside the Soviet army. It was the Czechoslovak unit’s first major action on the Eastern Front.
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The Battle of Kokkinia was a battle given by Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) assisted by the people of Kokkinia against the Nazi occupation forces and the collaborationist Security Battalions. The battle resulted in the Nazi forces withdrawing from the area and staying away from it until August 1944, when the Executions of Kokkinia took place as a retaliation for the Battle of Kokkinia and more generally for the resistance of the working class suburbs of west Attica.
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State elections were held in South Australia on 8 March 1947. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League government led by Premier of South Australia Thomas Playford IV defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Robert Richards.
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French president Vincent Auriol and Bảo Đại exchanged letters in Paris setting out an agreement on Vietnam’s status as an associated state within the French Union. The exchange was followed by separate steps to put the agreement into effect.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 7 and 8 March 1954.
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The 1957 Urban Council Election was held on 8 March 1957 for the 4 of the 8 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong. Since this election the term of the members was extended from 2 years to 4 years. Hilton Cheong-Leen of the Civic Association defeated incumbent Woo Pak-chuen of the Reform Club and gained the last seat.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Sudan on 27 February and 8 March 1958.The first elections since independence in 1956, they were supposed to be held in August 1957, but were postponed by the ruling council, who claimed that flooding would affect the vote. The result was a victory for the Umma Party, which won 63 of the 173 seats. The Southern Sudan Federal Party competed in the election, and won 40 of the 46 seats allocated to the southern provinces.The party platform represented a serious challenge to the authorities.However, when it became clear that the party's demands for a federal structure would be ignored by the Constituent Assembly, on 16 June 1958 the southern MPs left parliament.
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The 1960 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary was held on March 8, 1960, in New Hampshire as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1960 United States presidential election.
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The 1960 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary was held on March 8, 1960, in New Hampshire as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1960 United States presidential election. Incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon ran virtually unopposed, and thus won the Granite State in a landslide.
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On 8 March 1962, a Fairchild F-27 of Turkish Airlines crashed into Mount Medetsiz in the Taurus Mountains range while en route from Ankara Esenboğa Airport to Adana Airport, killing all eight passengers and three crew members on board. The flight took an unusual route directly through the mountain range and encountered cumulus clouds during descend into Adana, causing the flight crew to navigate around them.
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The 1963 Syrian coup d'état, labelled in Ba'athist historiography as the March 8 Revolution (Arabic: ثورة الثامن من آذار), was the seizure of power in Syria by the military committee of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. The planning and the unfolding conspiracy of the Syrian Ba'athist operatives were prompted by the Ba'ath party's seizure of power in Iraq in February 1963.
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Aeroflot Flight 513 was a domestic scheduled passenger from Kuybyshev Airport, Soviet Union, to Sochi International Airport, Soviet Union, with a stopover at Rostov-on-Don Airport, Soviet Union. On 8 March 1965, the Tupolev Tu-124 operating this route crashed shortly after takeoff from Kuybyshev Airport, resulting in the deaths of 30 passengers and crew and leaving 9 survivors. It was the first fatal accident involving a Tupolev Tu-124.
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On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam. Their initial assignment was to defend Da Nang Air Base.
The location is Da Nang, in present-day Vietnam.
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Operation Cocoa Beach was a US Army operation that took place along Highway 13 near Lai Khê, lasting from 3 to 8 March 1966.
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Nelson's Pillar (also known as the Nelson Pillar or simply the Pillar) was a large granite column capped by a statue of Horatio Nelson, built in the centre of what was then Sackville Street (later renamed O'Connell Street) in Dublin, Ireland. Completed in 1809 when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, it survived until March 1966, when it was severely damaged by explosives planted by Irish republicans.
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On 8 March 1966, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Xingtai, Hebei. It was the first major quake in the sequence; a stronger one followed on 22 March.
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On March 8, 1967, Lalroukung was declared elected to Manipur’s legislative assembly from Churachandpur constituency in India. The election was later challenged in court, so this entry records the declaration rather than the final outcome of that litigation.
This is the declaration of a constituency result, not a statewide polling date.
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Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in March 1972. These were the elections to the legislative assembly having 296 seats in undivided Madhya Pradesh. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Prakash Chandra Sethi was sworn in as the new Chief Minister. After the 1962 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, the number of constituencies in Madhya Pradesh were increased to 296, following the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.
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The 4th Gujarat Legislative Assembly election was held in 1972. Indian National Congress won 140 seats out of 168 seats. While, NCO won 16 seats. Congress performed better in this election and gained 47 seats. Total of 852 men and 21 women contested the election. Total 167 men and 1 woman won in the elections. The number of polling stations was 17,994 and the number of electors per polling station was 695.
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Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), also known as Roissy Airport, is the primary international airport serving Paris, the capital of France. The airport opened in 1974 and is located in Roissy-en-France, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of the city centre of Paris. It is named after World War II leader and French president Charles de Gaulle, whose initials form its IATA airport code.
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Fragments of a stony meteorite fell near Jilin and Yongji in northeastern China. Large recovered pieces were preserved for scientific study.
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The University of Science and Technology of China opened its first class for academically advanced teenagers in Hefei. Twenty-one students entered the experimental program.
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The 1979 Urban Council Election was held on 8 March 1979 for the 6 of the 12 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong.
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Philips showed journalists an optical disc and player prototype at its Eindhoven site. It had already shown the system privately to audio specialists and later worked with Sony on a common standard.
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A storage tank overflowed in the waste-treatment building at Unit 1 of Japan’s Tsuruga nuclear plant. Some of the radioactive liquid entered a drainage channel and flowed into Urazoko Bay.
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The 1983 Urban Council Election was held on 8 March 1983 for the elected seats of the Urban Council. It marked the centenary of the establishment of the Urban Council and the largely reformed electoral methods with the creation of the district-based constituencies and massive expansion of the electorate.
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 8 March 1983. All candidates for seats in Congress ran as independents.
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On March 8, 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan addressed the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida. He called the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and opposed a nuclear weapons freeze.
The location is the speech venue in the United States.
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On 8 March 1985, a car bomb exploded between 9 and 45 metres from the house of Shia cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, in a failed assassination attempt by a Lebanese counter-terrorism unit linked to the Central Intelligence Agency. The bombing killed up to 80 people and injured up to 200. Beirut experienced three other deadly car bombs in the following months, this time targeting Christian areas.
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Operation Karbala-7 (Arabic: عملیات كربلاء ۷) was an Iranian offensive in Haj Omran during the Iran–Iraq War to prevent Iraq from rapidly transferring units to its defense lines at Basra after Iran had launched the failed Operation Karbala-5 to capture the city of Basra. This was a failed Iranian attempt to reoccupy the summit of Kurda Mand Mountain.
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A presidential primary was held in the U.S. state of Alabama on March 8, 1988, to elect delegates representing Alabama to the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Alabama was allocated sixty-five delegates, fifty-six of which were pledged. Thirty-seven delegates were elected from the seven congressional districts and the remaining nineteen were chosen by the State Democratic Executive Committee to reflect candidates' statewide vote totals.
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Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Irkutsk to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) with a stopover in Kurgan. On 8 March 1988, after the Tupolev Tu-154 operating the flight had left Kurgan, it was hijacked by the Ovechkin family, whose members sought to defect from the Soviet Union. The Ovechkin family demanded the crew fly the aircraft to London.
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The 1988 São Tomé and Príncipe coup attempt was a failed paramilitary operation undertaken by the exile National Resistance Front of São Tomé and Príncipe – Renewal (Portuguese: Frente de Resistência Nacional de São Tomé and Príncipe – Renovada FRNSTP-R) that sought to overthrow the ruling MLSTP government.
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The 13th Yokohama Film Festival (第13回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 8 March 1992 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
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The 1994 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election took place on March 8, 1994. Incumbent Mayor Jim Naugle, who was first elected in 1991, ran for re-election to a second term. He was challenged by attorney Jim Lewis and landlord Angelo Diamond, which initially scheduled the election for February 8 and a general election, if needed, for March 8.
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General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 8 March 1994. They were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party under the leadership of Lester Bird. Bird had been appointed leader of the ALP before the elections, after his father and predecessor Vere Bird announced his intention to retire. Lester Bird became Prime Minister after elections. Voter turnout was 62.3%.
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On 8 March 1994, a Sahara India Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashed shortly after takeoff during a training exercise at Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport, India. The plane crashed into an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-86, which led to both aircraft being destroyed. All 6 crew members on both aircraft were killed, along with two other Aeroflot employees on the Ilyushin, while one person on the ground was killed.
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An indirect election for the position of President of the Hellenic Republic was held by the Hellenic Parliament in 1995. In the parliament resulting from the 1993 elections, PASOK held the majority with 170 seats, followed by New Democracy with 111 seats and the Political Spring party (founded by breakaway ND politician Antonis Samaras) held 10 seats.
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On March 8, 1996, voters in the Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district took part in the first round of Iran’s parliamentary election. The district elected 30 members of parliament, with a runoff following the first round.
This date records first-round voting, not the completion of the runoff.
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Big Ass Extreme Bash was a professional wrestling doubleheader live event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on the weekend of March 8 and March 9, 1996. The March 8 card was held in the Lost Battalion Hall in the Queens neighborhood of New York City, New York in the United States, while the March 9 card was held in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.
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The Naka-Meguro train disaster occurred in Japan on 8 March 2000. Five people were killed and 63 were injured when a derailed TRTA Hibiya Line train was sideswiped by a second train near Naka-Meguro Station.
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Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, aggregating more spaceflights than any other spacecraft as of December 2024.
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-102, carrying the Expedition 2 crew to the International Space Station.
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On March 8, 2004, the Iraqi Governing Council signed the Transitional Administrative Law, Iraq’s provisional constitution following the 2003 invasion. The law came into effect on June 28, 2004.
This records the signing, not the law’s entry into force or the 2005 referendum on the permanent constitution.
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 8 March 2005, alongside a three-part referendum. As no political parties existed, all 23 candidates for the 10 available seats in Congress ran as Independents. In the referendums voters were asked whether they approved of three proposed amendments to the constitution. These would remove the power of the Supreme Court to rule on land and water issues, give the states credit for their acts, and lift the ban on dual citizenship. The proposed amendments required a 75% majority in at least three of the four states.
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On March 8, 2005, a special election was held in the California's 5th congressional district to choose a U.S. Representative to replace Bob Matsui, who had died of pneumonia shortly after being re-elected in the 2004 elections. Matsui's wife, Doris, was quickly able to win support from the Democratic Party officials, and ended up winning over two-thirds of the vote in the special primary election, meaning a run-off would not be needed.
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The 2005 Los Angeles mayoral election took place on March 8, 2005, with a run-off election on May 17, 2005. In a rematch of the 2001 election, Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa defeated the sitting mayor, James Hahn, becoming the city's first Hispanic mayor since the 19th century. Municipal elections in California, including Mayor of Los Angeles, are officially nonpartisan; candidates' party affiliations do not appear on the ballot.
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Elections to the offices of President and Vice-President of Fiji took place on 8 March 2006, when the Great Council of Chiefs met as an electoral college at the Tradewinds Convention Centre in Lami. The Great Council re-elected President Ratu Josefa Iloilo (who had recently turned 85) and Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi to another five-year term.
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The 2008 Sabah state election was held on Saturday, 8 March 2008, simultaneously with the 12th general election of Malaysia. 60 state assembly seats were contested. The election was won by the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition with a similar amount of seats won as in the previous election, where they won 59 seats. One seat was won by Democratic Action Party (DAP). In the previous election, BN won 59 seats, while one seat was won by an independent candidate. Other parties contesting in this election are Democratic Action Party, Parti Keadilan Rakyat, BERSEKUTU, Pasok, Setia, and 47 independent candidates.
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A general election was held on Saturday, 8 March 2008 for members of the 12th Parliament of Malaysia. Voting took place in all 222 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant house of Parliament. State elections also took place in 505 state constituencies in 12 out of 13 states (excluding Sarawak) on the same day. The 12th Parliament was dissolved on 13 February 2008, and the following day, the Election Commission announced nominations would be held on 24 February, with general polling set for 8 March.
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The Maltese general election for the renewal of the Maltese House of Representatives was held on Saturday, 8 March 2008. The governing Nationalist Party won a narrow victory over the Malta Labour Party.
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The 2008 Guam Republican presidential caucuses, also called the Guam state convention, took place on March 8, 2008. The approximately 500 people who attended the convention chose six delegates to represent Guam at the 2008 Republican National Convention. John McCain won all six of the delegates. Guam also sent three unpledged party delegates to the party convention, for a total delegation of nine.
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The 2008 Penang state election was held on Saturday, 8 March 2008 to elect all 40 members of the Penang State Legislative Assembly. The opposition Pakatan Rakyat, led by Lim Guan Eng, won a surprise landslide victory against the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition under chief minister Koh Tsu Koon, ending its 39-year hold on the Penang state government.
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The 12th Selangor state election was held on 8 March 2008. Polling took place in 56 constituencies throughout the State of Selangor, with each electing a state assemblyman to the Selangor State Legislative Assembly. The election was conducted by the Malaysian Election Commission. The state election was held concurrently with the 2008 Malaysian general election.
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The 12th Perak state election was held on 8 March 2008. Polling took place in 59 constituencies throughout the State of Perak, with each electing a state assemblyman to the Perak State Legislative Assembly. The election was conducted by the Malaysian Election Commission. The state election was held concurrently with the 2008 Malaysian general election.
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The 12th Kedah state election was held on 8 March 2008. Polling took place in 36 constituencies throughout the Malaysian state of Kedah, with each electing a State Assemblyman to the Kedah State Legislative Assembly. The election was conducted by the Malaysian Election Commission. The state election was held concurrently with the 2008 Malaysian general election.
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Voters in Illinois's 14th congressional district chose Bill Foster over Jim Oberweis to finish the term of former House speaker Dennis Hastert. Foster was sworn in three days later.
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Parliamentary elections in North Korea, creating the 12th Supreme People's Assembly, were held on 8 March 2009. They were originally scheduled to be held in August 2008 but were postponed for unknown reasons. Observers of North Korea speculated that it was in relation to Kim Jong-il's ill health. All candidates standing in the elections in North Korea were members of one of the parties comprising the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland. A single candidate, approved by the North-Korean leadership, ran in each of the 687 districts, thereby guaranteeing a full victory by the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, regardless of voter turnout.
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The 2009 African Nations Championship final was a football match held on 8 March 2009, and was the culmination of the inaugural tournament organised by CAF, aimed at players playing in their domestic leagues. The final was contested by DR Congo and Ghana, who had met earlier in the group stage, where Ghana ran out 3–0 winners.
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The 2009 Superfinalen was the first edition of Superfinalen, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Tippeligaen and Norwegian Cup competitions. It was played on 8 March 2009, at Telenor Arena in Bærum, between Stabæk and Vålerenga, winners of the 2008 Tippeligaen and 2008 Norwegian Football Cup respectively.
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The 2009 Camp Capsat mutiny was the mutiny of a section of the Madagascar Armed Forces which led to the ousting of Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana on March 17, 2009, and to the nomination of Andry Rajoelina as President of the High Transitional Authority later that day. The 2009 Camp Capsat mutiny began near the Malagasy capital of Antananarivo on March 8, 2009.
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On March 8, 2010, jihadists from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) attacked Nigerien forces at their base in Tilwa, Tillabéri Region, Niger.
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On March 8, 2010, TNA Impact! moved its regular broadcasts to Monday nights on Spike TV in the United States, competing with WWE Raw. The move followed a separate Monday special on January 4; the programme returned to Thursdays two months later.
This is the start of the regular Monday schedule, not the earlier January special.
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The 2010 Belarusian Super Cup was held on 8 March 2010 between the 2009 Belarusian Premier League champions BATE Borisov and the 2008–09 Belarusian Cup winner Naftan Novopolotsk. The match ended in a goalless draw at the conclusion of regulation time. BATE went on to win the match 3–2 on penalties.
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 8 March 2011, alongside a three-part referendum. As there were no political parties, all 34 candidates ran as independents. For the first time in the country's history, two women ran for election, both in Chuuk State. However, neither was elected. The three referendum questions were held on extending the congressional term length to four years for all members (at the time, 10 of the 14 members were only elected for two-year terms), allowing the holding of dual citizenship, and whether a Constitutional Convention should be elected to revise the constitution.
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The 2011 elections for elected officials in Los Angeles took place on March 8, 2011. Seven out of the fifteen members of the city council were up for election.
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Election of the President of European Conservatives and Reformists was held on 8 March 2011. Election was held after the previous president Michal Kaminski quit the group. Candidates included Czech MEP Jan Zahradil, British MEP Timothy Kirkhope and Polish MEP Ryszard Legutko. Kirkhope was considered the favourite to become the new president as the Conservative Party dominated the group. He was defeated by Zahradil who became the new president.
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On March 8, 2012, Fight Nights held Battle of Moscow 6, a mixed martial arts and kickboxing event in Moscow, Russia.
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On 8 March 2012, members of the British military Special Boat Service, supported by members of the Nigerian Army, attempted a rescue mission to rescue British hostage Chris McManus and Italian hostage Franco Lamolinara from Boko Haram, supported by Al Qaeda, in Sokoto in north-west Nigeria. The mission failed when both hostages were executed by their captors.
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UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Manuwa (also known as UFC Fight Night 37) was a mixed martial arts event held on March 8, 2014 at The O2 Arena in London, England. The event was shown live in the UK on Channel 5 and BT Sport and in the USA on UFC Fight Pass.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370 / MAS370) was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared from radar on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination, Beijing Capital International Airport in China, with the 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. The cause of its disappearance has not been determined.
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On March 8, 2014, the Glory 14 kickboxing event took place at Arena Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia.
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The 2016 Mississippi Republican presidential primary took place in Mississippi on March 8, 2016, ahead of the presidential election that November. The Democrats held their Mississippi primary on the same day. Mississippi's 40 Republican delegates were contested. Donald Trump won the primary, receiving 47.24% of the vote, while Ted Cruz came in second, with 36.12% of the vote. Trump received 25 of the state's delegates, while Cruz received the remaining 15.
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The 2016 Mississippi Democratic presidential primary took place on March 8 in the U.S. state of Mississippi as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On the same day, the Democratic Party held a second primary in Michigan, while the Republican Party held primaries in four states, including their own Mississippi primary.
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The 2016 Michigan Democratic presidential primary was held on March 8 in the U.S. state of Michigan as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On the same day, the Democratic Party held a second primary in Mississippi, while the Republican Party held primaries in four states, including their own Michigan primary.
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From March to September 2016, the Turkish city of Kilis and surrounding areas came under continuous rocket bombardments by the Islamic State, resulting in retaliatory strikes by the Turkish military on ISIL militants located at the ISIL-occupied areas in North Syria. Since January 2016 and until early May, more than seventy rockets fired from across the border by ISIL had hit this town, killing at least 21 people.
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Donald Trump finished first in Michigan’s Republican presidential primary with 36.6 percent of the vote. Ted Cruz finished second, narrowly ahead of John Kasich.
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A Legislative Assembly election was held in Manipur on 4 March and 8 March 2017 to elect the 60 members of the Manipur Legislative Assembly. before the expiration of the term of the previous Assembly on 18 March 2017. The election was fought mainly on the issues of "territorial integrity of Manipur" and the Naga peace accord. The incumbent Indian National Congress lost majority.
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The association football match between Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain occurred on 8 March 2017 at the Camp Nou. It was the second leg of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League round of 16; PSG won the first leg at the Parc des Princes 4–0 a month earlier. During the match, Barcelona scored six times, including two goals in injury time, to win the match 6–1 and 6–5 on aggregate.
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The election to the 17th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held from 11 February to 8 March 2017 in 7 phases. This election saw a voter turnout of 61.11% compared to 59.40% in the previous election. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a landslide victory of 325 seats despite not projecting a chief ministerial candidate before the election.
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The Azure Window, a natural limestone arch at Dwejra on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapsed during a storm.
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The 2020 Elimination Chamber (known as No Escape in Germany) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown. It was the 10th Elimination Chamber event and took place on March 8, 2020, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was the second Elimination Chamber to not take place in February, after the 2015 event.
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The National Unity Consultative Council (Burmese: အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအတိုင်ပင်ခံကောင်စီ; NUCC) is an advisory body of the National Unity Government of Myanmar. Formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'etat, the NUCC seeks to overthrow the military dictatorship and build a federal democratic union in Myanmar through collective leadership, political dialogue, and coordination. NUCC is a historic alliance of ethnic armed organizations and the Bamar majority, and is considered one of the most inclusive in modern Burmese history.
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The 2022 NXT Roadblock was the third Roadblock professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It was held primarily for wrestlers from the NXT brand division. Unlike the previous two Roadblock events, NXT Roadblock aired as a special episode of NXT on the USA Network. The television special took place on March 8, 2022, at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
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The Ménaka offensive was a series of offensives launched by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara against the Malian Army, Tuareg self-defense groups including the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA) and Imghad Tuareg Self-Defense Group and Allies (GATIA), and the al-Qaeda-aligned Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin. The offensives took place in the Ménaka Cercle, in southeastern Mali.
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The 2024 Sacrifice was a professional wrestling event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The event took place on March 8, 2024, at St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and aired on TNA+. It was the 15th event under the Sacrifice chronology, and the first Sacrifice event promoted under the TNA name since the 2016 event.
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The 2023 Egypt Cup final was a one-legged football tie that would determine the winner of the 2022–23 Egypt Cup competition. During which Al Ahly, the holder of the 2022 edition title, and Zamalek, competed. The match was held at Al-Awwal Park in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On 12 February 2024, the Egyptian Football Association announced its approval of Saudi Arabia's request to host the cup final.
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UFC 313: Pereira vs. Ankalaev was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on March 8, 2025, at T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Valley, United States.
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The 2025 Western Australian state election was held on 8 March 2025 to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia, where all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 37 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. The Labor government, led by Premier Roger Cook, won a third consecutive four-year term in a landslide, becoming the first party to win a third term in Western Australia since 1989.
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On March 8, 2025, Western Australians voted to elect all 37 members of the Legislative Council. For the first time, the upper house was elected from a single statewide electorate, replacing the previous six-region system.
This is the polling date; counting and declaration of the results followed later.
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On March 8, 2025, Cage Warriors held its Cage Warriors 183 mixed martial arts event in Rome, Italy.
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ONE Fight Night 29: Rodrigues vs. McManamon was a combat sports event produced by ONE Championship that took place on March 8, 2025, at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
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The 2026 Baden-Württemberg state election was held on 8 March 2026. The outgoing government was a coalition of Alliance 90/The Greens supported by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), who retired at this election. Defying most polls leading up to the election, the Greens remained the largest party with 30.2% of the vote, only a small decline from the previous election.
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