March 8th, 1942

Born on March 8th, 1942

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What happened on March 8th, 1942?

March 8th, 1942

World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.

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What else happened on March 8th?

March 8th, 2017

The Azure Window, a limestone natural arch in Gozo, Malta, collapsed during a stor

March 8th, 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".

March 8th, 1979

Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io (pictured), a moon of Jupiter.

March 8th, 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.

March 8th, 1966

Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar topped by a statue of Lord Nelson in Dublin, Ireland, was severely damaged by a bomb.

March 8th, 1963

The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council for the Revolutionary Command.

March 8th, 1919

During the Egyptian Revolution, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul and exiled him to Malta.

March 8th, 1910

French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.

March 8th, 1736

Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.

March 8th, 1702

Anne (pictured) became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding her brother-in-law William III.

March 8th, 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.

March 8th, 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.

March 8th, 1576

A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.

March 8th, 2018

The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) was held being International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then annually held across Pakistan and feminist slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi (My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence came into vogue in Pakistan.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 8th

Born on March 8th, 1942

82

Ann Packer

Athletics competitor

*March 8th, 1942, Moulsford

82

Wolfram Bode

German biochemist

*March 8th, 1942, Berlin

82

Spencer R. Weart

American physicist and historian

*March 8th, 1942, Detroit

82

Pari Ravan

Iranian painter

*March 8th, 1942, Iran

20

Reinhold Huhn

German soldier of the border troops of the GDR

*March 8th, 1942, Braniewo †June 18th, 1962, Berlin

78

Dick Allen

American baseball player and singer (1942-2020)

*March 8th, 1942, Wampum †December 7th, 2020, Wampum

79

Concepción Ramírez

Guatemalan indigenous woman

*March 8th, 1942, Santiago Atitlán †September 10th, 2021, Santiago Atitlán

82

Nicolae Nagy

Romanian footballer (born 1942)

*March 8th, 1942, Târgu Mureș

82

Ulises Rosales del Toro

Cuban politician

*March 8th, 1942, Oriente Province

82

Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)

New Zealand singer

*March 8th, 1942, Dunedin

82

Kathy Sullivan

Teacher and politician in Queensland, Australia (1942– )

*March 8th, 1942, Brisbane

82

Taj Haider

Pakistani senator and politician

*March 8th, 1942, Kota

82

Manolo Valdés

Spanish painter and sculptor of the twentieth century

*March 8th, 1942, Valencia

79

George Gerberman

American baseball player

*March 8th, 1942, El Campo †January 7th, 2022

80

Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe

American Venezuelan scientist

*March 8th, 1942, Venezuela †September 29th, 2022

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80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

66

Gary Numan

English musician (born 1958)

*March 8th, 1958, Hammersmith

67

Lynn Redgrave

British actress (1943–2010)

*March 8th, 1943, Marylebone †May 2nd, 2010, Kent

83

Hebe Camargo

Brazilian recording artist, television host, singer

*March 8th, 1929, Taubaté †September 29th, 2012, Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital

79

Micky Dolenz

American actor and musician

*March 8th, 1945, Los Angeles

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

83

Areta Koopu

New Zealand social worker and Māori activist

*March 8th, 1941, Gisborne

48

Takae Masumo

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1976, Hokkaido

75

Antonello Venditti

Italian recording artist and singer-songwriter (1949-)

*March 8th, 1949, Rome

84

Susan Clark

Actress from Canada

*March 8th, 1940, Sarnia

42

Petra Overzier

German badminton player

*March 8th, 1982, Cologne

65

Aidan Quinn

American actor

*March 8th, 1959, Chicago

88

David Cryer

American stage, television and film actor and singer

*March 8th, 1936, Evanston

29

Sinan Zorlu

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1995, Osmangazi

81

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Italian writer and archaeologist (born 1943)

*March 8th, 1943, Castelfranco Emilia

22

Christo Popov

Badminton player

*March 8th, 2002, Sofia

48

Hines Ward

American football player, wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers

*March 8th, 1976, Seoul

79

Holger Hocke

German coxswain

*March 8th, 1945, Hamburg

57

Juvénal Habyarimana

2nd President of Rwanda from 1973 until assassinated in 1994

*March 8th, 1937, Gisenyi Province †April 6th, 1994, Kigali

83

Wilfrid Napier

Roman Catholic cardinal

*March 8th, 1941, Western Cape

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Born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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No: With 365 days 1942 is a normal year and no leap year.

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