The March 8th is the 67e Jour of the Année (68e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

12th century

14th century

  • 1324 : New the archbishop of Arles Gasbert de Valle or of the Valley makes homage between the hands of the king Charles IV '' Beautiful the ''.

  • 1360 : Signature of a peace treaty between the France (Jean the good) and the England (Edouard III) to put an end to the One hundred Year old war (temporarily because the war takes again 9 years later).

15th century

  • 1484 : An edict, taken at the request of two deputies of the Quercy to the General states assembled with Turns, removes the secondary seats of the Sénéchaussée, for the greatest profit of Cahors and Montauban, where sat the courses principal and “présidiales”.

18th century

  • 1759 : Paris: The Parlement of Paris condemns for the second time the Encyclopédie of Alembert.

  • 1790 :

    • the French Colonies obtain the law to propose their internal laws.
    • Antoine Barnave, spokesperson of the colonists of Santo Domingo, makes admit the maintenance of the Esclavage in the colonies.

19th century

  • 1844 : Sweden: Died of Charles XIV (Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte). His/her son Oscar Ier of Sweden succeeds to him.

  • 1854 : Japan: Signature of a provisional treaty between Americans and Japanese (it will be ratified in January and in February 1855 by the the United States, then by the Japan.

  • 1857 : The workers of the textile of New York put themselves in strike and are opposed violently to the police force.

  • 1886 : France: law instituting Mondays of Easter and non-working Pentecost like .

  • 1894 : New York is the first American city to put a demanding payment into force that the dogs carry a medal of identity.

20th century

  • 1904 : Jésuites can return in Germany, following the revision of a law going back to 1872.

  • 1910 : Spain: The king authorizes the women to continue their studies.

  • 1911 : For the first time, the Digital fingerprints are used as tool to the police officers in the detection of the crime, whereas a suspecté individual of flight is put in charge at New York.

  • 1917 :

    • the New Yorkean women express to obtain the equal rights with the men.
    • Beginning of the “ Revolution of February ” in Russia: with Saint-Pétersbourg of the workers express to claim bread and the return of their husbands left to the face.

  • 1918 : Russia: Leon Trotski resigns of his functions of Commissaire of the People to the Foreign affairs.

  • 1933 : Official announcement of the creation of German concentration camps in the general indifference of the European states.

  • 1942 :
    • Its infrastructures demolished by the English which evacuated it, Rangoon, the Burmese capital , is occupied by the Japan board.
    • the Dutch colony of the the Eastern Indies, current the Indonesia, capitulates to the offensive of the army Japan ease. It is the three centuries end of Dutch presence on the Archipel.

  • 1945 : The final declaration of the Conference of Chapultepec proclaims the principle of the equal rights for all the men “whatever their race or their religion”.

  • 1950 : The marshal Vorochilov announces that the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb.

  • 1954 : The the United States and the Japan sign an agreement of mutual defense.

  • 1961 :

    • the Congolese leaders agree on the creation of a Federation, chaired by Kasavubu.
    • at the time of a conference, with London, the South Africa racist advertisement which it will leave the the Commonwealth.

  • 1969: The Soviet place their army of the Far East in state of alert following border incidents with the China on the river Oussouri.

  • 1971 : At boxing, Joe Frazier preserves his title of the heavy trucks while having Mohammed Ali by decision of the referee, in a match of 15 rounds disputed with New York.

  • 1972 : France: The decree on contraception between into force.

  • 1977 : The the United Nations officialize the International Journée of the Women.

  • 1978 : The Belgian business man Charles Bracht is removed; its body will be found the next on April 10th.

  • 1982 :

    • France: France observes the international Journée of the Women for the first time.
    • the administration Reagan shows the Soviet to have caused the death of at least 3  000 people in Afghanistan by the use of gas pollutant and other chemical weapons.

  • 1983 : Maurice Papon, former general secretary of the prefecture of the the Gironde, in charge of the Jewish questions, is again accused of Crimes against humanity.

  • 1984 :

    • George ATI Sokomanu becomes again president of the Republic of Vanuatu.
    • First test of a American missile Cruise in the Western Canadian.

  • 1985 : Explosion of a car bomb in the Shiite district of Beirut: 75 died, 250 wounded.

  • 1986 : France: Philippe Rochot, Georges Hansen, Aurel Cornéa and Jean-Louis Normandin, French journalists of the chain Antenne 2 are taken as an hostage by Islamic Jihad with Beirut (Lebanon).

  • 1989 : The China imposes the martial law on the Tibet after three days of riots.

  • 1990 :

    • the French department of the " Coast-of-North " takes the name of " Coast-with Armor ".
    • One announces that after 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures, MGM will be repurchased by Pathé Communications. With beginning of the year 30, the company with the emblem of the howling lion, queen of the musical comedy, was the most powerful studio of Hollywood. The largest stars worked there: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, James Stuart, Judy Garland and Elizabeth Taylor. But, with only 6,3% of the market, MGM does not appear any more but in the 7ème row of the large studios of production.

  • 1997 : Rebels take Gjirokaster, last place held by the government of Sali Berisha in the south of the Albania.

  • 1998 : Stacy Dragila carries the world records of female jump to the pole in room to 4,48 Mr.

  • 1999 : The France (including/understanding the DOM-TOM) account 60.185.831 inhabitants, is 2.111.616 of more compared to the Recensement of 1990.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • NATO authorizes the Serbia to keep its border with the Kosovo, vis-a-vis the incursions of rebels albanophones come from Macedonia.
    • Beginning of a courageous campaign of the ONG " Stop-Sida" (directed by a Moslem scholar, Hamden Ould Tah ) which is fixed like objective to sensitize the Moslem religious leaders of Mauritania on the problem of the AIDS. The organization wishes that one speaks about the AIDS in their sermons and the Koranic schools.
    • the trawler Bigouden royal the is approached and run by the Norwegian tanker Siboti at the entry of the Manche. To consult the site of the CEDAR

  • 2002 :
    • a Astéroïde 50 m in diameter passes to 463.000 km without nobody realizing in the observatories there. It is only on March 12th that this mass is seen. It is estimated that it is a of the same object diameter which exploded before touching the ground in 1908, in Siberia in the area of the tougounska.
    • Sun Microsystems attacks Microsoft for violation of the anti-monopoly acts.

  • 2003 : France: Nearly 20.000 people express in the streets of Paris their support for the revolt of the women victims of the violence machist.

  • 2004 : Iraq: The 25 members of the Iraqi Government council unanimously approve the temporary Constitution of the country.

  • 2005 :
    • France: Several hundreds of breakers benefit from the demonstration Parisian high-school girl against the reform of the school to devote itself to acts of violence, obliging the organizers and the police force to disperse the procession.
    • Nearly 1,3 million demonstrators pro-Syrians gathered with Beirut with the call of the Hezbollah, which denounces the pressures of Washington and the resolution 1559 of UNO, asking the withdrawal of the foreign troops the Lebanon.
    • Assassination targeted in Chetchnia of the independence chief tchetchene Aslan Maskhadov, in a " operation spéciale" carried out by the Russian forces.
    • the volcano of the Holy Mount Helens, the United States, awakes and sends ashes to nearly 12.000 m of altitude but does not seem to constitute of danger, contrary to its eruption of the May 18th 1980.
    • the Congress refuses unanimously the resignation of Carlos Mesa, president of Bolivia.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Théophilacte de Nicomédie (842-845), bishop confessor.

Catholic saints of the day

  • Holy Jean of God (1495-1550)
  • Holy Vincent de Kadlubek

External bonds

  • International Day of the Women: history of March 8th, portraits of women, and programs of March 8th, in France.

See too

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