This day in #history 08/03
MARCH 8TH
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1920 – Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
1930 – Mohindas Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1945 – International Women’s Day is 1st observed
1993 – Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council
2013 – North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1075 – Abu ‘l-Kasim Mahmud ibn Omar al-Zamachshari, Arab theologist
1787 – Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery
1937 – Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973-94)
FAMOUS DEATHS
883 – Albumasar, [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies
1874 – Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies at 74
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