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On this day for the United States

March 8:

Events

• 1765 - The British House of Lords passes the Stamp Act to tax the American colonies.
• 1775 - Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America" was published. It was the first article in the United States calling for the emancipation of all slaves and the abolition of slavery.
• 1782 - Gnadenhütten massacre: Some 90 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity had their skulls crushed with mallets by Pennsylvanian militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
• 1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
• 1854 - U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry makes his second landing in Japan, where he will conclude a treaty with the Japanese within a month.
• 1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
• 1884 - Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
• 1894 - The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law.
• 1917 - The U.S. Senate votes to to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
• 1924 - Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
• 1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
• 1943 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
• 1957 - The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
• 1971 - Joe Frazier becomes the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion by winning a unanimous 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in New York.
• 1983 - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire
• 1983 - The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses a nuclear weapons freeze with the Soviet Union, a move denounced by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• 1999 - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.