Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 8
On March 8:
- 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
- 1702 - Anne acceded to the throne of England (later Great Britain).
- 1911 - International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time.
- 1965 - The first American combat troops entered the Vietnam War.
- 1966 - An Irish republican bomb destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.