Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 8
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This is a list of selected March 8 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.March 8: International Women's Day; Mother's Day in various European countries
- 1702 – Princess Anne (pictured) became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding William III.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio died at the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhutten massacre.
- 1966 – Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar with a statue of Lord Nelson on top in Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed by a bomb.
- 1983 – The Cold War: During a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
- 1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in a car-bombing in Beirut killed more than 80 people and injured almost 200 others.
