Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 8
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March 8: International Women's Day; Mother's Day in various European countries.
- 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
- 1702 - Princess Anne (pictured) became the queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- 1782 - Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio died at the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhütten massacre.
- 1844 - Oscar I acceded to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1966 - Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar with a statue of Lord Nelson on top in Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed by a bomb.
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