On This Day in History - March 8th - Almanac - UPI.com

Today is Sunday, March 8, the 67th day of 2026 with 298 to follow.

This is International Women's Day.

Daylight saving time begins.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter and Mars. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1841; scientist Otto Hahn in 1879; actor Louise Beavers in 1902; actor Claire Trevor in 1910; dancer/actor Cyd Charisse in 1922; actor Susan Clark in 1943 (age 83); actor Lynn Redgrave in 1943; musician Carole Bayer Sager in 1944 (age 82); musician/actor Micky Dolenz (Monkees) in 1945 (age 81); musician Randy Meisner (Eagles) in 1946; Baseball Hall of Fame member Jim Rice in 1953 (age 73); actor Aidan Quinn in 1959 (age 67); TV journalist Lester Holt in 1959 (age 67); actor Camryn Manheim in 1961 (age 65); actor Leon Robinson in 1962 (age 64); musician Shawn Mullins in 1968 (age 58); actor Boris Kodjoe in 1973 (age 53); actor Freddie Prinze Jr. in 1976 (age 50); actor James Van Der Beek in 1977; actor Alison Becker in 1977 (age 49); musician Tom Chaplin in 1979 (age 47); musician Andy Ross (OK Go) in 1979 (age 47); tattooist/TV personality/musician Kat Von D in 1982 (age 44); actor Milana Vayntrub in 1987 (age 39); musician Benny Blanco in 1988 (age 38); actor Montana Jordan in 2003 (age 23).

On this date in history:

In 1817, the New York Stock Exchange was established.

In 1913, the Internal Revenue Service began to levy and collect income taxes in the United States.

In 1914, International Women's Day was observed on March 8 for the first time and would go on to be marked on this day annually. The United Nations began officially celebrating the day in 1977.

In 1917, strikes and riots in St. Petersburg marked the start of the Russian Bolshevik revolution.

In 1921, after Germany failed to make its first war reparation payment, French troops occupied Dusseldorf and other towns on the Ruhr River in Germany's industrial heartland.

In 1943, Allied planes led by the Royal Air Force bombed the German city of Nuremberg, an important military manufacturing site. By the end of World War II, the vast majority of the city was destroyed by Allied bombings.

In 1957, Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international traffic after Israel withdrew from occupied Egyptian territory.

In 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. It was the first deployment of a large U.S. ground combat unit to the country, marking the United States's official entry in the Vietnam War.

In 1974, the streaking epidemic that had been gripped parts of the United States appeared to run its logical course.

In 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" in a speech before the British House of Commons.

In 1990, Colombia's M-19 leftist guerrilla group surrendered its arms, ending 16 years of insurrection.

In 1999, baseball great Joe DiMaggio died at age 84.

In 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush vetoed legislation that would have outlawed severe interrogation methods such as waterboarding used by the CIA. Bush said the proposal would eliminate "one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror."

In 2010, up to 500 people were killed in a nighttime "ethnic cleansing" raid on a village near Nigeria's turbulent city of Jos.

In 2013, former Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem and ex-Defense Minister Oscar Camilion were convicted of smuggling weapons to Croatia and Ecuador.

In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 carrying 239 people vanished over the Indian Ocean en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. A massive search found no sign of the plane and a government statement months later said all aboard -- 227 passengers and 12 crew members -- "are presumed to have lost their lives."

In 2022, David Bennett, a 57-year-old man who became the first to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig, died two months after the historic surgery.

In 2024, a U.S. Defense Department report found no evidence that the U.S. government is aware of and concealing the truth about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UFOs.

A thought for the day: "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old." -- Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes