selected Anniversaries/March 8

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  Oscar I of Sweden
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  Nelson's Pillar
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  Protesters during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
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  Raymonde de Laroche
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  Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (the missing aircraft, 9M-MRO)
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  Johannes Kepler
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  Nader Shah
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  Anne of Great Britain}
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  Maya ruins at Copán

• 1655 – The court of Northampton County, Virginia, issued a ruling that made John Casor the first person of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be declared a slave for life as a result of a civil suit.
• 1658 – After a devastating defeat in the Second Northern War, King Frederick III of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his Danish territory to Sweden to save the remainder.
• 1702 – Anne (pictured) became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding her brother-in-law William III.
• 1736 – Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.
• 1919 – During the Egyptian Revolution, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul and exiled him to Malta.
• 1924 – Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah, killed all 171 miners working there.
• 1978 – BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other formats.
• 1983 – Cold War: In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. president Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
• 2017 – The Azure Window, a limestone natural arch in Gozo, Malta, collapsed during a stor
• Born/died this day: | Pope Celestine II |d|1144| Simon Cameron |b|1799| Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge |d|1819| Frank Avery Hutchins |b|1851| Bramwell Booth |b|1856| Ida Hunt Udall |b|1858| Gladys Bustamante |b|1912| Panditrao Agashe |b|1936| Juvénal Habyarimana |b|1937| José Raúl Capablanca |d|1942| Petra Kvitová |b|1990|