March 8th

Today in America's Present Past

1782 | Indian Wars: Gnadenhutten massacre.

A depiction of Hannah Hoes Van Buren | Image courtesy of the White House.

1783 | POTUS: Hannah Hoes, the wife of President Van Buren, was born.

1817 | New York Stock Exchange is formed.

1820 | POTUS: President Monroe’s daughter marries in the White House.

1841 | SCOTUS: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is born.

1848 | Entrepreneur LaMarcus Thompson was born.

1855 | Outlaw “Bill the Butcher” died.

1861 | Civil War: Union forces liberate St. Augustine, Florida.

1874 | POTUS: President Fillmore died.

1884 | Civil Rights: Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Of Representatives Judiciary Committee.

Horton’s patent for a fishing rod.

1887 | Entrepreneur Everett Horton receives a patient for a telescoping fishing rod.

1887 | Cleric Henry Ward Beecher died.

1889 | Entrepreneur John Ericsson died.

1894 | New York enacts the first dog license legislation.

1913 | The Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect taxes.

1916 | US forces invade Cuba.

1921 | Actor Alan Hale was born.

1930 | POTUS: President Taft died.

1930 | SCOTUS: Justice Edward Terry Sanford died.

1948 | SCOTUS: The Court decides McCollum v Board of Education.

1952 | POTUS: President Reagan weds Nancy Davis.

1959 | Actor Aidan Quinn was born.

1964 | Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam.

1965 | Vietnam War: US troops land at the beaches of Da Nang, South Vietnam.

“Fight of the Century” as Frazier (left) bests Ali (right).

1971 | Boxer Joe Frazier ends Muhammad Ali’s 31 fight winning streak.

1977 | Actor James Van Der Beek was born.

1994 | US Defense Department bans smoking at its workplaces.

1999 | Baseballer Joe DiMaggio died.

2024 | The Pentagon releases a report finding no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence.