March 8 events in history

1010 Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shāhnāmeh
1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion
1736 Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran
1775 An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery
1801 War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria
1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded
1844 King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway
1868 Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka
1910 French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license
1917 The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule
1924 The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah
1936 Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race
1937 Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins
1942 World War II: Dutch forces surrender to Japanese forces on Java
1947 Thirteen thousand troops sent by the Kuomintang government of China arrive in Taiwan after the 228 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement
1949 Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason
1957 Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis
1957 Ghana joins the United Nations
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France
1979 Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time
1983 While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire"
1985 A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others
2004 A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears over the Gulf of Thailand en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. The aircraft is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia with all 239 people on board dead