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Santo Domingo.- The events of March 8, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history. Below, the main events of March 8:
- International Women's Day.
- Protests of working women in New York.
- The modern women's rights movement is born in Europe.
Saint's Day: Saint John of God, Quintilino and Felix.
National: March 8th Anniversaries
- 1570. By means of Royal Decree, the auditor Isabel de Quiñones, is authorized to appoint a substitute, designating Baltasar de Figueroa in 1573 to occupy the position.
- 1802. The Haitian forces that General Toussaint Louverture had left in Santo Domingo return to their country.
- 1805. The Haitian emperor Jean Jacques I (Dessalines) besieges the city of Santo Domingo, establishing his headquarters in Galá.
- 1824. Four of the conspirators of the Los Alcarrizos revolution against the Government of Jean-Pierre Boyer are sentenced to capital punishment, others to imprisonment of two or five years and some more released after demonstrating that they were not involved.
- 1844. The Haitian president, Charles Rivière-Hérard, issues a resolution ordering a blockade of the ports of the eastern part of the island.
- 1845. The first session of the Conservative Congress or Senate is held, chaired by Buenaventura Báez, first president of the organization, with the purpose of providing the first State with the adjective laws indicated in the substantive charter of 1844.
- 1847. The lawyer and president of the Republic, General Cesáreo Guillermo Basterdo, is born in the community of La Rodaja, Hato Mayor.
- 1940. Manuel de Jesús Troncoso assumes the presidency of the Republic, after the death of President Jacinto J. Peynado the previous day.
- 1945. The Dominican and Soviet Union governments exchange notes in Mexico, through which they established diplomatic and consular relations.
- 1962. Former President Joaquín Balaguer travels to Puerto Rico, with a safe-conduct pass managed by the Apostolic Nuncio, Monsignor Enmanuelle Clarizio, thus beginning an exile that lasted until June 25, 1965.
- - The president of the PRD, professor Juan Bosch, arrives in Caracas, Venezuela, where he meets with President Rómulo Betancourt.
- - The assets of the former officials of the Trujillo dictatorship Fernando A. Sánchez hijo, Gilberto and Ernesto Sánchez Ruborosa, Marcos A. Gómez, doctor José A Sobá, Virgilio Álvarez Sánchez, Víctor J. Sued, José María Bonnetti Burgos and Virgilio Álvarez Pina are confiscated.
- 1996. The PLD presidential candidate, Leonel Fernández, chooses Senator Jaime David Fernández Mirabal as his vice-presidential candidate for the elections of May 16 of this year.
- 2005. A special commission of the Senate delivers to the government a list of 2,000 agricultural professionals and technicians, teachers, doctors and nursing staff dismissed for being members of the PRD.
- 2009. The authorities investigate the circumstances of the kidnapping and murder of technician Ramón Argenis Guerra Florián, head of the Department of Camera Control and Closed Circuit of the Caucedo Multimodal Port, after discovering several drug shipments, including one of 1,300 kilos of cocaine that was attributed to the Spaniard Arturo del Tiempo Márquez.
- 2018. The businesswoman Robin Bernstein, nominated by Donald Trump to be the United States ambassador to the Dominican Republic, guarantees to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that, if confirmed, she will work to ensure that the rights of descendants of Haitians affected by the sentence handed down in 2013 by the Constitutional Court are respected.
- 2021. The Ministry of Public Health reports that the Dominican Republic has surpassed 400,000 vaccinated against the coronavirus, a process that extends beyond health personnel, teachers and the elderly, since those who accompany people over 80 years old are also inoculated.
- 2022. The group of Ukrainian tourists who have not yet left Punta Cana, stranded in the country due to their nation's war with Russia, begin their return from Puerto Plata, on the so-called humanitarian flights.
International: March 8th Anniversaries
- 1076. A meteor shower occurs over China, with a total of 45 tons of meteorites.
- 1576. Diego García de Palacio is the first European to report the existence of the ruins of Copán, at least in writing to his majesty King Philip II of Spain, in his Relatos de Copán.
- 1576. Within the framework of the Eighty Years' War in which the Netherlands was liberated from the invasion of the Spanish Empire, after being unburied for three days due to lack of funds, the Spanish governor Luis de Requesens is buried.
- 1610. King Philip III of Spain, orders the establishment of the Catholic Inquisition in Cartagena de Indias, the current Colombia.
- 1801. In Alexandria, Egypt, the British destroy the French expedition led by Napoleon.
- 1817. In the United States, the New York Stock Exchange is founded.
- 1908. In New York, 129 women die in a textile factory fire, who were locked up demanding equal labor rights as men. This event gives rise to the celebration on this date of International Women's Day.
- 1910. The UN establishes International Women's Day and since 1945, it has been celebrated universally.
- 1917 The United States invades Cuba for the third time.
- 1965. The landing of marines (about 3500), American in Vietnam, initiated the previous day, continues.
- 1974. Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, the capital of France, is inaugurated.
- 1992. About 130 people die, the majority of Chinese origin, when the Thai ferry "Nava Pratship" and an oil tanker collide near the coast of the Gulf of Thailand.
- 1993. The anti-Sandinista Command Yolaina, made up of five men, storms the Nicaraguan embassy in Costa Rica, holding Ambassador Alfonso Robelo and 24 other people hostage.
- 2004. In a US prison in Iraq, Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), dies of natural causes.
- 2007. One of the largest builders in the US, D.R. Horton, warns that it will suffer large losses due to the fall in the subprime mortgage market, since at the beginning of the year sales of new homes were reduced by 28% during its first fiscal quarter.
- 2008. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica announces his resignation and calls for early elections due to the crisis over his government's rapprochement with the EU and the differences over Kosovo.
- 2011. The world celebrated the first centenary of the commemoration of International Women's Day.
- 2014. A Boeing 777 from Malaysia Airlines that covered the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 12 crew members and 227 passengers on board, disappears from radar screens after 50 minutes of flight.
- 2021. The US Supreme Court unanimously rejects a lawsuit that former President Donald Trump filed against the results of the vote in Wisconsin, one of the key states in the November elections for the White House, putting an end to the Republican's crusade against that process.
- - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva affirms that the annulment of his convictions by magistrate Edson Fachin, of the Supreme Court, reflects the "incompetence" of the Curitiba court of first instance, responsible for the Lava Jato operation trials.
- 2022. A US jury finds far-rightist Guy Reffitt guilty of five charges related to the assault on the Capitol of 2021, including obstruction of the certification of the presidential elections and transportation of weapons.
- 2023. The international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announces the temporary closure of its hospital in the Haitian town of Cite-Soleil, due to the deterioration of the security situation within the already serious context of crisis that the country is suffering.
- - A court in El Salvador sentences Wilmer Segovia, the alleged gang member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), to 1,310 years in prison for having committed 33 homicides, 9 propositions to commit murders and several extortions, as reported on his social networks by the attorney general, Rodolfo Delgado.
- 2024. Juan Orlando Hernández becomes the first former Honduran ruler, who, after leading the country (2014-2022), is found guilty in a federal court in the Southern District of New York of three crimes associated with drug trafficking, for which he could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Births: March 8th Anniversaries
- 1714: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788).
- 1781: Juana Azurduy, patriot and heroine of independence in Upper Peru.
- 1839: Josephine Cochrane, American inventor of the first automatic dishwasher.
- 1847: Cesáreo Guillermo y Bastardo, Dominican politician and president.
- 1859: Kenneth Grahame, British writer, known for The Wind in the Willows.
- 1879: Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944.
- 1892: Juana de Ibarbourou, prestigious Uruguayan poet, known as "Juana de América".
- 1910: Claire Trevor, American actress.
- 1941: Ramón "Palito" Ortega, Argentine singer, actor and politician.
- 1955: Mónica Gutiérrez, Argentine journalist.
- 1974: Carlos Baute, Venezuelan singer and songwriter.
Deaths: March 8th Anniversaries
- 1869: French composer Hector Berlioz dies, one of the great figures of musical romanticism and author of the famous Symphonie fantastique.
- 1933: Colombian writer, journalist, and politician José María Vargas Vila dies, known for his literary works of strong social and political criticism in Latin America.
- 2016: George Martin dies, British music producer known as “the fifth Beatle”, for his work with the band The Beatles.
- 2017: American musician and singer Chuck Berry dies, considered one of the pioneers of rock and roll and a great influence on modern music.
- 2023: Juanita Castro dies, sister of Fidel Castro, known for her critical stance against the Cuban government and for living much of her life in exile.
