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Month March 2008 Calendar

About Month of March Calendar

  • March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere for March.

    March symbols: The birthstones of March are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones symbolize courage. Its birth flower is the daffodil. The zodiac signs for the month of March are Pisces (until March 20) and Aries (March 21 onwards).

Historical Events for March, 2008

  • Day of Week 1st » The Police of the Republic of Armenia named Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against Armenian presidential election, 2008 named allegedly fraudulent presidential elections 2008, as a result ten people are killed.
  • Day of Week 6th » A 6 March 2008 Baghdad bombing named suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman Mercaz HaRav massacre named kills eight students in Jerusalem.
  • Day of Week 13th » Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
  • Day of Week 14th » A series of 2008 Tibetan unrest e.g riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
  • Day of Week 19th » GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
  • Day of Week 24th » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its Bhutanese general election, 2008 named first ever general election.

Famous Deaths for March 2008

  • 1st » Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla leader (b. 1948)
  • 2nd » Jeff Healey, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)
  • 3rd » Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor (b. 1921)
  • 3rd » Norman Smith (record producer) called Norman Smith, English drummer and producer (b. 1923)
  • 4th » Tina Lagostena Bassi, Italian lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
  • 4th » Robert Bruning, Australian actor and producer (b. 1928)
  • 4th » Gary Gygax, American game designer, co-created 'Dungeons & Dragons' (b. 1938)
  • 4th » Elena Nathanael, Greek actress (b. 1941)
  • 4th » Leonard Rosenman, American composer and conductor (b. 1924)
  • 4th » Semka Sokolović-Bertok, Croatian actress (b. 1935)
  • 4th » George Walter, Antiguan politician (b. 1928)
  • 5th » Joseph Weizenbaum, German computer scientist and author (b. 1923)
  • 6th » Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918)
  • 8th » Carol Barnes, English journalist (b. 1944)
  • 10th » Richard Biegenwald, American serial killer (b. 1940)
  • 10th » Vangelis Kazan, Greek actor (b. 1936)
  • 11th » Nils Taube, Estonian-English businessman (b. 1928)
  • 12th » Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (b. 1949)
  • 12th » Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier (b. 1897)
  • 14th » Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (b. 1920)
  • 15th » Mikey Dread, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1954)
  • 15th » Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1951)
  • 15th » Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
  • 16th » Bill Brown (cricketer) e.g Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
  • 16th » Ola Brunkert, Swedish drummer (b. 1946)
  • 16th » Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
  • 16th » Gary Hart (wrestler) known as Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (b. 1942)
  • 16th » John Hewer, English actor (b. 1922)
  • 16th » G. David Low, American astronaut and engineer (b. 1956)
  • 16th » Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham (band) known as Bonham) (b. 1968)
  • 17th » Roland Arnall, French-American businessman and diplomat, 63rd United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)
  • 18th » Andrew Britton, English-American author (b. 1981)
  • 18th » Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
  • 18th » Geoffrey Pearson, Canadian diplomat and author (b. 1927)
  • 19th » Raghuvaran, Indian actor (b. 1958)
  • 19th » Arthur C. Clarke, English author (b. 1917)
  • 19th » Hugo Claus, Belgian author (b. 1929)
  • 19th » Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
  • 20th » Eric Ashton, English rugby player and coach (b. 1935)
  • 20th » Sobhan Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
  • 20th » Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1927)
  • 21st » Denis Cosgrove, English-American geographer and academic (b. 1948)
  • 21st » Klaus Dinger, German singer-songwriter and producer (Neu!, La Düsseldorf, La! Neu?, and Kraftwerk) (b. 1946)
  • 21st » Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, Chilean architect (b. 1931)
  • 22nd » Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (b. 1918)
  • 23rd » Vaino Vahing, Estonian psychiatrist, author, and playwright (b. 1940)
  • 24th » Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
  • 24th » Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941)
  • 24th » Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
  • 24th » Hal Riney, American advertiser, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (b. 1932)
  • 24th » Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
  • 25th » Ben Carnevale, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
  • 25th » Thierry Gilardi, French sportscaster (b. 1958)
  • 25th » Abby Mann, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
  • 25th » Herb Peterson, American fast food executive and food scientist (b. 1919)
  • 26th » Heath Benedict, Dutch-American football player (b. 1983)
  • 26th » Robert Fagles, American poet and academic (b. 1933)
  • 26th » Manuel Marulanda, Colombian rebel leader (b. 1930)
  • 26th » Wally Phillips, American radio host (b. 1925)
  • 27th » Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (b. 1921)
  • 27th » George Pruteanu, Romanian educator and politician (b. 1947)
  • 30th » David Leslie (racing driver) named David Leslie, Scottish race car driver (b. 1953)
  • 30th » Richard Lloyd (racing driver) e.g Richard Lloyd, English race car driver (b. 1945)
  • 30th » Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer (b. 1942)
  • 31st » Jules Dassin, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1911)
  • 31st » Bill Keightley, American equipment manager (b. 1926)

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