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What Happened On 8th March 2014 In History

March 8th (2014) was a Saturday. It's the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days left to the end of the year.

Historical Events for 8th March, 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.

March 8th Famous Deaths for 2014

  • » Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (b. 1921)
  • » James Ellis (actor) e.g James Ellis, Irish-English actor (b. 1931)
  • » Buren Fowler, American guitarist (Drivin N Cryin) (b. 1959)
  • » William Guarnere, American sergeant (b. 1923)
  • » Wendy Hughes Australian actress (b. 1952)
  • » Alan Rodgers, American author and poet (b. 1959)
  • » Larry Scott (bodybuilder) e.g Larry Scott, American bodybuilder (b. 1938)

March 8th Holidays in History

  • » Christian Feast Day:
  • » John of God
  • » Philemon the actor
  • » Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Edward King (bishop of Lincoln) named Edward King, Felix of Burgundy (Church of England)
  • » Earliest day on which Canberra Day can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March (Australian Capital Territory)
  • » Earliest day on which Commonwealth Day can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March (Commonwealth of Nations)
  • » Earliest day on which Passion Sunday can fall, while April 17 is the latest; observed on the fifth Sunday of Lent (Christianity)

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World History for the 8th March