On This Day for March 8 - British throne ascended by Anne, Lidiya Skoblikova is featured, and more

Created: 2020-03-08 10:03 Updated: 2020-03-08 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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March 08

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1939

Lidiya Skoblikova

FEATURED EVENT

1702

British throne ascended by Anne

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2014: During a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared, prompting a massive search effort that was finally called off in early 2017. [ Read about seven puzzling plane disappearances .]

1999: American baseball player Joe DiMaggio, who was one of the best all-around players in the history of the game, died. [ Test your knowledge of baseball .]

1841: U.S. Supreme Court justice and legal historian Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , who advocated judicial restraint, arguing that speech could be limited only if it was a “clear and present danger,” was born in Boston. [ Why are there nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court? ]

1971: American boxer Joe Frazier retained his world heavyweight championship by winning a 15-round decision over former champion Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1942: Japanese troops captured Rangoon, Burma (Yangon, Myanmar) during World War II. [ Sort fact from fiction in our World War II quiz .]