Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport Comes into Service

March 8 is the 67th day of the year (68st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

8 March 2006 A joint venture agreement was signed between TCDD-ROTEM-HYUNDAİ-ASAŞHACO for the railway vehicles factory to be established in Adapazarı.
8 March 2006 A partnership agreement has been signed with Rotem-Mitsui for the supply of the 32 set commuter series for the Ankara suburb.

Events

1010 – Ferdowsi, Shahnameh He completed his epic poem.
1817 - The New York Stock Exchange was established.
1899 – Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany's football club, was founded.
1906 – Moro Crater Massacre: US soldiers kill more than 600 unarmed men, women, and children hiding in a crater in the Philippines.
1917 – Women take to the streets in the capital Petrograd for International Women's Day in Russia Tsar II. It led to the start of the February Revolution (23 February in the Julian calendar), which resulted in Nicholas' abdication.^[1] This event led to the decision of March 8 as a fixed date for International Women's Day in the Soviet Union after the October Revolution that took place in the same year.^[2]^[3] and thereupon, with the Comintern decision, it led to the worldwide celebration of Women's Day on March 8 by the international socialist and communist movement. However, this date began to gain wider acceptance in the late 1960s and became increasingly universal after the United Nations recognized March 1977 as International Women's Day in 8.
1919 – The British declared martial law in Antep; He demanded that whatever firearms and injurious weapons were in the city, to be handed over to the British Occupation Forces Command within 24 hours.
1920 – Salih Hulusi Kezrak was appointed as the Grand Vizier.
1921 - Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato is killed by Catalan militants while leaving the Parliament Building in Madrid.
1931 – After the Kublai Incident, the martial law in Menemen was lifted.
1933 – The First Five-Year Development Plan was accepted.
1942 – II. World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to the Japanese on the island of Java.
1943 – İsmet İnönü opened the 7th Grand National Assembly of Turkey and was re-elected as the President. Şükrü Saracoğlu was reassigned to form the government.
1944 – New York Metropolitan Opera gave a concert at Taksim Casino.
1948 – Ordinaryus Prof., who is a dermatologist and venereal diseases specialist, who went into the world medical literature due to a skin disease he described (Behçet's Disease). Dr. Hulusi Behçet died in Istanbul as a result of a heart attack.
1951 – I. Adnan Menderes Government resigned. One day later II. The Menderes Government was established; While three new ministers took office in the government, six were replaced.
1951 – American violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin came to Istanbul to give a concert.
1952 - First artificial heart surgery was performed in Philadelphia.
1955 – Turkey's first cancer-fighting dispensary was opened.
1956 – Speaking at the rally organized by the Democrat Party in Izmir, Prime Minister Menderes made a speech criticizing the press. “These newspapers are not qualified to be the press of the democratic revolution,” he said. He accused the press of trying to change the facts and overthrow the DP government.
1957 – Former Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Turhan Feyzioğlu, said in his conference at the Turkish Law Institution, “Except for the few years following the Constitutional Monarchy and the first years of the Democratic Party government, the press has longed for freedom.”
1957 – Egypt reopens the Suez Canal.
1962 – The 'Kop' plane belonging to THY, making the Istanbul-Ankara-Adana flight, crashed in the Taurus Mountains. There were no survivors of the eight passengers and three crew members.
1963 – As a result of a coup in Syria, Baathists and Nasserists seized power. Ba'athist officers seized power in Iraq in February, and Prime Minister Abdulkerim Qasim was killed.
1965 – Vietnam War: 3500 US Marines land on the Da Nang coast of South Vietnam.
1971 – Balikesir Necatibey Education Institute was closed by interrupting education.
1971 – In Yıldızeli, Sivas, the district secretary of the Workers Party of Turkey was killed.
1972 – Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party Yuksel Menderes committed suicide with gas in Ankara. Mutlu Menderes, one of the sons of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, died on 1 March 1978 in a traffic accident. On March 15, 1996, Aydın Menderes was paralyzed as a result of a traffic accident.
1974 – Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport was put into service.
1975 – At the Dostlar Theater in Osmanbey, Istanbul, a public “Women's Day” celebration was held for the first time, with the initiative of the women who carried out the founding work of the Progressive Women's Association (İKD). In the meeting attended by 400-500 women, speeches were made on the meaning and importance of Women's Day and poems were read. In the same year, a celebration was held in Ankara.
1978 – President Fahri Korutürk informed the Government that İsmail Cem's appointment to the TRT General Directorate was objectionable.
1979 – President Fahri Korutürk, on the debates on the Turkish Armed Forces; "It should be our foremost duty to pay great attention and care to keep our Armed Forces out of all kinds of politics," he said.
1979 – The Philips Company introduced the Compact Disc (CD) to the public for the first time.
1982 – The Turkish Foundation for the Education and Protection of Mentally Handicapped Children was established.
1983 - Ronald Reagan calls the USSR the "Evil Empire".
1984 – Greece recalls its Ambassador in Ankara after alleged Turkish warships opened fire on a Greek Destroyer. Upon the developments, Turkey instructed the Ambassador of Athens to return to the country.
1984 – State of Emergency laws came into force regarding the implementation of the state of emergency in eight provinces.
1985 – A bomb exploded in front of a mosque in Beirut, killing 85 people and injuring 175.
1987 – Feminist magazine, published by Women's Circle Publishing, began publication. The main authors of the magazine, whose owner and editor-in-chief are Handan Koç; Ayşe Düzkan, Handan Koç, Minu, Defne, Filiz K., Serpil, Gül, Sabahnur, Vildan and Stella Ovadis. The magazine ceased publication in March 1990.
1992 – Police intervened in the celebration marches held in Istanbul and Adana for International Women's Day; some women were beaten, two women were injured and 8 women were detained.
1992 – Istanbul Public Prosecutor's Office followed the obscene broadcasts on private TVs.
1996 – A passenger plane belonging to the TRNC that made the Nicosia-Istanbul flight was hijacked; first to Sofia and then to Munich. It was understood that the person who hijacked the plane was a Turkish citizen named Ramazan Aydın, who wanted to go to his girlfriend in England. Aydın, who released the passengers and crew on the plane, was arrested by the German police.
1999 – Star newspaper began its publication life.
2000 – For the first time in its political history of more than 30 years, a flag was raised against Necmettin Erbakan, and a candidate for the Chairman of the FP was elected. Kayseri Deputy Abdullah Gül declared his candidacy.
2003 – THY's RJ-100 type plane, flying from Istanbul to Diyarbakır, crashed during its landing in Diyarbakır: 74 people died and 3 people survived with injuries.
2004 – The new regulation, which was prepared after the law that removed the secrecy of the Regulation on the Secretariat General of the National Security Council, entered into force. The General Secretariat of the NSC was defined in the regulation as an organization affiliated to the Prime Minister.
2005 – Chechen leader Aslan Mashadov was killed by Russian security forces in a shootout.
2006 – Pope II. Convicted Mehmet Ali, who was extradited to Turkey on 24 June 14 after being imprisoned in Italy for 2000 years due to the assassination attempt against Jean Paul, and who is in Kartal H Type Prison on charges of murdering journalist-writer Abdi İpekçi and "extortion" Ağca was released by the Kartal Heavy Penal Court after the Prison Directorate's letter stating that he had “completed his sentence”.
2010 – There was an earthquake of 6 magnitude in Elazig. 42 people lost their lives.
2020 – In Italy, 14 cities in and around the Lombardy region are quarantined to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The next day, Italy was declared a red zone and quarantine restrictions spread across the country.

Births

1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
1748 – William V, Prince of Orange (d. 1806)
1761 – Jan Potocki, Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveler, and Enlightenment writer (d. 1815)
1813 – Japetus Steenstrup, Danish scientist, zoologist (d. 1897)
1822 – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist and oil industrialist (d. 1882)
1839 – Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (d. 1913)
1865 – Frederic Goudy, American graphic designer and educator (d. 1947)
1877 – Šatrijos Ragana, Lithuanian humanist writer, educator (d. 1930)
1879 – Otto Hahn, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1883 – Franco Alfano, Italian musician (d. 1954)
1884 – Georg Lindemann, German cavalry officer (d. 1963)
1879 – Otto Hahn, German chemist (d. 1968)
1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist (d. 1972)
1887 Patrick O'Connell, Irish football player (d. 1959)
1888 – Gustav Krukenberg, German SS commander (d. 1980)
1892 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966)
1894 – Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor (d. 1966)
1895 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (one of South America's most famous female poets) (d. 1979)
1897 – Herbert Otto Gille, general of Nazi Germany (d. 1966)
1898 – Theophilus Dönges, South African politician (d. 1968)
1899 – Eric Linklater, Scottish writer (d. 1974)
1907 – Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
1910 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
1911 – Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, Turkish writer (d. 2001)
1918 – Poon Lim, American sailor
1922 – Ralph H. Baer was a German-American inventor, game developer, and engineer (d. 2014)
1922 – Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (d. 2008)
1924 – Anthony Caro, English abstract sculptor (d. 2013)
1925 – Warren Bennis, American scientist (d. 2014)
1926 Peter Graves, American actor (Our Mission is Danger) (d. 2010)
1926 Francisco Rabal (Paco Rabal), Spanish actor (d. 2001)
1927 – Ramon Revilla Sr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2020)
1930 – Douglas Hurd, British conservative politician, former minister
1931 – Gerald Potterton, British-Canadian director, producer, writer and animator (d. 2022)
1937 – Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan soldier and politician (d. 1994)
1939 – Jim Bouton, American former professional baseball player, actor and author (d. 2019)
1941 – Norman Stone, Scottish historian (d. 2019)
1942 – Ann Packer, English runner and long jumper
1943 Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)
1944 - Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist
1944 – Kim Won-ung, South Korean politician (d. 2022)
1949 – Teófilo Cubillas, former Peruvian football player
1956 – David Malpass, an American economic analyst
1957 – Ali Rıza Alaboyun, Turkish politician
1957 – Clive Burr, English drummer (d. 2013)
1957 – Cynthia Rothrock, American actress
1958 – Gary Numan, English musician
1959 – Özhan Eren, Turkish musician and director
1964 – Atilla Kaya, Turkish tavern musician (d. 2008)
1967 – Asli Erdogan, Turkish physicist and writer
1971 – Canan Hosgor, Turkish actress
1973 – Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer
1974 – Gökçe Fırat, Turkish journalist and writer
1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr. is an American actor.
1977 – Johann Vogel, Swiss football player
1978 – Ece Vahapoğlu, Turkish journalist, writer and presenter
1979 – Bülent Polat, Turkish theater, TV series and movie actor
1980 – Harun Ovalioglu, Turkish football player
1983 – Seda Demir, Turkish TV series and film actress
1983 – André Santos, Brazilian football player
1983 – Guray Zünbül, Turkish sailor
1988 – Juan Carlos García, Honduran national football player (d. 2018)
1990 – Asier Illarramendi, Spanish football player
1990 – Petra Kvitová, professional Czech tennis player
1991 – Alan Pulido, Mexican national football player
1991 – Mika, Portuguese football player
1995 – Marko Gudurić, Serbian basketball player
1996-Feride Hilal Akın, Turkish Singer
1997 – Tijana Bošković, Serbian volleyball player

Deaths

1089 – Hâce Abdullah Herevi, 11th century sufi and religious scholar (b. 1006)
1403 – Yıldırım Bayezid, 4th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1360)
1844 – XIV. Karl, first French king of Sweden and Norway (b. 1763)
1869 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
1874 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
1891 – Antonio Ciseri, Swiss artist (b. 1821)
1917 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (b. 1838)
1921 – Eduardo Dato, Spanish politician and lawyer (b. 1856)
1923 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1837)
1925 – Seyyid Bey, Turkish politician and writer (b. 1873)
1930 – William Howard Taft, American politician and 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
1931 – Mammadhasan Hadjinski, Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (b. 1875)
1941 – Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876)
1942 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban world chess champion (b. 1888)
1944 – Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, Turkish writer (b. 1864)
1948 – Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist (b. 1889)
1956 – Drastamat Kanayan, Armenian soldier and politician (b. 1883)
1959 – Bekir Sıtkı Kunt, Turkish politician and Republican period storyteller (b. 1905)
1964 – Franz Alexander, founder of Hungarian Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychoanalytic Criminology (b. 1891)
1965 – Urho Castrén, President of the Finnish Supreme Administrative Court (b. 1886)
1971 – Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)
1972 – Erich von dem Bach, German soldier (Nazi officer) (b. 1899)
1972 – Yuksel Menderes, Turkish politician (b. 1930)
1975 – George Stevens, American film director and winner of the Academy Award for Best Director (b. 1904)
1975 – Joseph Bech, former prime minister of Luxembourg (b. 1887)
1977 – Fikret Ürgüp, Turkish doctor and storyteller (b. 1914)
1980 – Nusret Hızır, Turkish philosopher (b. 1899)
2001 – Ninette de Valois, Irish-born English dancer and choreographer (b. 1898)
2004 – Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
2005 – Aslan Mashadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)
2005 – Erol Mutlu, Turkish academic, writer and director (former Deans of Ankara University Faculty of Communication) (b. 1949)
2008 – Sadun Aren, Turkish academic and politician (Former Faculty Member of Ankara University SBF) (b. 1922)
2013 – İsmet Bozdağ, Turkish researcher and writer of recent history (b. 1916)
2013 – Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, German officer who served with the rank of first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht during the 20 July Assassination Attempt (b. 1922)
2015 – Sam Simon, American television producer and screenwriter (b. 1955)
2016 – Richard Davalos is an American actor (b. 1930)
2016 – George Martin, English musician and producer (b. 1926)
2017 – Dmitri Mejevic, Soviet-Russian actor and folk poet (b. 1940)
2017 – Joseph Nicolosi, American clinical psychologist (b. 1947)
2017 – George Olah, Hungarian-American chemist (b. 1927)
2017 – Li Yuan-tsu, Chinese politician (b. 1923)
2017 – Dave Valentin, American latin jazz musician and flutist (b. 1952)
2018 – Ercan Yazgan, Turkish theater, cinema, TV series actor and director (b. 1946)
2019 – Mesrob Mutafyan, Armenian cleric and 84th patriarch of the Armenians of Turkey (b. 1956)
2019 – Cynthia Thompson, Former Jamaican female athlete (b. 1922)
2020 – David Rogers, American auto racer (b. 1955)
2020 – Max von Sydow, Swedish film actor (b. 1929)
2021 – Kuryana Azis, Indonesian politician (b. 1952)
2021 – Adrian Bărar, Romanian guitarist and composer (b. 1960)
2021 – Djibril Tamsir Niane was a Guinean historian, playwright and short story writer (b. 1932)
2021 – Rasim Öztekin, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor (b. 1959)
2022 – Valeriy Petrov, Soviet-Ukrainian professional football player and coach (b. 1955)
2023 – Marcel Amont, French actor, singer and musician (b. 1929)
2023 – Hendrik Brocks, Indonesian cyclist (b. 1942)
2023 – Gianmarco Calleri, Italian football player, entrepreneur and sports administrator (b. 1942)
2023 – Italo Galbiati, Italian former football player and coach (b. 1937)
2023 – Bert I. Gordon, American film producer, director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2023 – Satish Kaushik, Indian actor, director, producer, comedian and screenwriter (b. 1956)
2023 – Dolores Klaich, American feminist writer, activist, journalist and educator (b. 1936)
2023 – Grace Onyango, Kenyan educator and politician (b. 1924)
2023 – Haim Topol, Israeli theater and film actor (b. 1935)

Holidays and special occasions

International Women's Day