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International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women's Day, is marked on March 8 every year.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t41575027/international-womens-day/



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Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion was discovered on March 8, 1618
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler

The total solar eclipse of March 2016 started at 23:19 UTC on March 8, 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_March_9,_2016



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Soviet submarine K-129 sank on the 8th March 1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-129_(1960)

First successful firing of the Wasserfall surface-to-air missile on March 8, 1944
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserfall

The third Orbiting Solar Observatory (known as OSO C before launch) was launched on March 8, 1967
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSO_3

Susei made a flyby of Comet Halley in 1986.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t41575007/suisei-spaceprobe/

TDRS-9, known before launch as TDRS-I, was launched on 8 March 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-9

The Cibola Flight Experiment Satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral on 8 March 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFESat



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Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin (March 8, 1952 - July 19, 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vasyutin

On 8 March 1910, Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman in the world to receive a pilot licence
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48168357/raymonde-de-laroche-1882-1919/

Beatrice (Tilly) Shilling (8 March 1909 - 18 November 1990) was an aeronautical engineer 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Shilling

Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 - August 19, 1887) was an American astronomer and telescope maker.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48168223/alvan-clark-1804-1887/

Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich FRS (8 March 1914 - 2 December 1987) was a prolific Soviet physicist 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48168355/yakov-borisovich-zeldovich-1914-1987/

Arno Arthur Wachmann (March 8, 1902 - July 24, 1990) was a German astronomer 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Arthur_Wachmann

Dionysis Simopoulos (born 8 March 1943) is a contemporary Greek physicist and astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysis_Simopoulos



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The Persian poet Ferdowsi started writing the Shahnameh in 977 A.D and completed it on 8 March 1010. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52902992/the-shahnameh/

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks premiered on 8 March 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkelV2WUNdw

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series was broadcast on Wednesday, 8 March 1978
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45503125/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/

"The Ultimate Computer" is a season two episode of the original science fiction television series Star Trek, first broadcast on March 8, 1968 and repeated June 28, 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer

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NGC 2356 was discovered by William Herschel on the 8th March 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56959530/ngc-2356/

NGC 2401 was discovered by William Herschel on the 8th March 1793.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56959519/ngc-2401/

NGC 2417 was discovered by John Herschel on the 8th March 1836.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56959513/ngc-2417/

NGC 2425 was discovered by William Herschel on the 8th March 1793.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56959497/ngc-2425/

NGC 2578 was discovered by William Herschel on the 8th March 1793.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56959487/ngc-2578/

NGC 2887 was discovered by John Herschel on the 8th March 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56959483/ngc-2887/

NGC 3497 was discovered by William Herschel on the 8th March 1790.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56959477/ngc-3497/

NGC 3571 was discovered by William Herschel on the 8th March 1790.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56959464/ngc-3571/



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On March 8, 1981, a type 1a supernova was discovered 51 arcseconds to the northeast of the galactic center of NGC 4536.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56437861/ngc-4536/

An active volcano on Io was discovered in 1979
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t6932458/io/

Asteroid (65) Cybele was discovered on March 8, 1861, by Ernst Tempel from the Marseilles Observatory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65_Cybele

Asteroid (283) Emma was discovered by Auguste Charlois on February 8, 1889, in Nice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/283_Emma

Asteroid (273) Atropos was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on March 8, 1888
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/273_Atropos

Biela's Comet was first recorded on 8 March 1772 by Jacques Leibax Montaigne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biela's_Comet



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Meteorites

The Jilin (Stone H5 chondrite) meteorite fell in Jilin, China, on the 8th March, 1976.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3416894/jilin-meteorite/



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