March 8th, 1966

Born on March 8th, 1966

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What happened on March 8th, 1966?

March 8th, 1966

Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, is destroyed by a bomb.

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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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson's_Pillar

What else happened on March 8th?

March 8th, 2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, with aircraft debris subsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean.

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, 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, 1924

Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah, killed all 171 miners working there.

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.

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

Born on March 8th, 1966

60

Anne McLaughlin

Scottish politician (born 1966)

*March 8th, 1966, Greenock

60

Anja Feldmann

German computer scientist and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science

*March 8th, 1966, Bielefeld

60

Gregory Barker

British politician (born 1966)

*March 8th, 1966, Worthing

60

Laurent Bezault

French cyclist

*March 8th, 1966, Boulogne-Billancourt

47

Hervé Boussard

Olympic cyclist (1966–2013)

*March 8th, 1966, Pithiviers †June 26th, 2013, Lésigny

60

Jim Veltman

Lacrosse player

*March 8th, 1966, Brampton

60

Stefano Catenacci

Swedish cook

*March 8th, 1966, Hägersten

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Born in 1966

59

Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

*August 7th, 1966, Huntsville

59

Diedrich Bader

American actor

*December 24th, 1966, Alexandria

59

Marcus Marin

German football player and manager

*December 13th, 1966, Hamburg

60

Lucie Bílá

Czech singer and actress

*April 7th, 1966, Otvovice

56

Sinéad O'Connor

Irish singer-songwriter and activist (1966–2023)

*December 8th, 1966, Glenageary †July 26th, 2023, London

59

David Cameron

British politician (born 1966)

*October 9th, 1966, Marylebone

59

Kiefer Sutherland

Canadian actor

*December 21st, 1966, St. Mary's Hospital

60

Olaf Thon

German association football player and manager

*May 1st, 1966, Gelsenkirchen

60

Thomas Doll

German association football manager (born 1966)

*April 9th, 1966, Malchin

60

Franco Foda

German association football player and manager

*April 23rd, 1966, Mainz

60

Bruno Labbadia

German association football player and manager

*February 8th, 1966, Darmstadt

60

Olaf Marschall

German association football player and manager (1966–)

*March 19th, 1966, Torgau

60

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

60

Markus Schupp

German association football player and manager

*January 7th, 1966, Idar-Oberstein

60

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

60

Stefan Mappus

German politician, former PM of Baden-Württemberg

*April 4th, 1966, Pforzheim

59

Daniel Schwerd

German politician

*November 3rd, 1966, Cologne

60

Marin Hinkle

American actress

*March 23rd, 1966, Dar es Salaam

59

Amélie Nothomb

Belgian Francophone writer

*July 9th, 1966, Kobe

60

Stefan Emmerling

German association football player and manager

*February 10th, 1966, Heidelberg

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1966 is a normal year and no leap year.

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