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Today is Saturday 8 March, the 67th day of 2025. There are still 298 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On March 8, 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam when 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the American air base in Da Nang.
Also on this date:
In 1917 protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), causing eight days to cause riots that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of the Russian monarchy.
In 1948, the Supreme Court in McCollum v. Board of Education Classes closed during school hours in Champaign, Illinois, Public Schools, and said that the program of church and state was violated.
In 1971, in the first of three fights between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Frazier Ali defeated unanimous decision in what was invoiced as “The Fight of the Century” in Madison Square Garden in New York.
In 1983, in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals Convention in Orlando, Florida, President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an ‘malignant kingdom’.
In 1988, 17 soldiers were killed when two army helicopters from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, clashed halfway through the flight during a nocturnal training mission.
In 2008, President George W. Bush pronounced a veto for a bill that the CIA would have forbidden to use simulated drowning and other compulsive interrogation methods to obtain information from suspected terrorists.
In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 239 people, disappeared on board, during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, so that a huge and eventually failed search was set up.
Today’s birthdays:
- Author John McPhee is 94.
- Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager is 81.
- Actor-Musicus Micky Dolenz (The Monkees) is 80.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Rice is 72.
- Singer Gary Numan is 67.
- TV journalist Lester Holt is 66.
- Actor Aidan Quinn is 66.
- Actor Camryn Manheim is 64.
- Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. is 49.
- Actor James van der Beek is 48.
- Songwriter producer Benny Blanco is 37.
- Tennis player Petra Kvitová is 35.
- Actor Montana Jordan is 22.
- Actor Kit Connor is 21.