Today is Saturday, March 8, the 67th day of 2014. There are 298 days left in the year.
1813 ― First concerto of Royal Philharmonic
1854 ― U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s second trip to Japan
1858 ― Leoncavallo’s opera “I Pagliacci” is produced (Naples)
1911 ― International Women’s Day (first celebrated)
1917 ― Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St. Petersburg)
1930 ― Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1934 ― Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1958 ― William Faulkner says U.S. schools degenerated to become babysitters
1983 ― President Reagan calls the USSR an “Evil Empire”
1995 ― Costis Stephanopoulos becomes President of Greece