8th March
1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history
9th March
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1497 Nicolaus Copernicus’ 1st recorded astronomical observation
10th March
1735 An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku
1876 First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you” to his assistant Thomas Watson
11th March
1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates a crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule
12th March
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1942 British troops vacate the Andaman Islands in Gulf of Bengal
13th March
1877 American Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs after inventing them at age 15
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
14th March
1910 Dalai Lama makes a rare state visit to the Viceroy of Calcutta.
1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1913 South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages are invalid; all Muslim and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid
