{"id":501695,"date":"2026-03-07T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/march-8th-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:15:44","slug":"march-8th-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/march-8th-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"March 8th Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong>\u00a0The events of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/efemerides\/efemerides-del-7-de-marzo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0<strong>Below, the main events of March 8:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/category\/estilo\/efemerides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>International Women&#8217;s Day<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Protests of working women in New York<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The modern women&#8217;s rights movement is born in Europe<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Saint&#8217;s Day:<\/strong>\u00a0Saint John of God, Quintilino and Felix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>National: March 8th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1570<\/strong>. By means of Royal Decree, the auditor Isabel de Qui\u00f1ones, is authorized to appoint a substitute, designating Baltasar de Figueroa in 1573 to occupy the position.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1802.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Haitian forces that General Toussaint Louverture had left in Santo Domingo return to their country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1805.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Haitian emperor Jean Jacques I (Dessalines) besieges the city of Santo Domingo, establishing his headquarters in Gal\u00e1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1824.<\/strong>&nbsp;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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1844<\/strong>. The Haitian president, Charles Rivi\u00e8re-H\u00e9rard, issues a resolution ordering a blockade of the ports of the eastern part of the island.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1845.<\/strong>&nbsp;The first session of the Conservative Congress or Senate is held, chaired by Buenaventura B\u00e1ez, first president of the organization, with the purpose of providing the first State with the adjective laws indicated in the substantive charter of 1844.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1847<\/strong>. The lawyer and president of the Republic, General Ces\u00e1reo Guillermo Basterdo, is born in the community of La Rodaja, Hato Mayor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1940.<\/strong>&nbsp;Manuel de Jes\u00fas Troncoso assumes the presidency of the Republic, after the death of President Jacinto J. Peynado the previous day.<br><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1945.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Dominican and Soviet Union governments exchange notes in Mexico, through which they established diplomatic and consular relations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1962.<\/strong>&nbsp;Former President Joaqu\u00edn 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8211;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>The president of the PRD, professor Juan Bosch, arrives in Caracas, Venezuela, where he meets with President R\u00f3mulo Betancourt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8211; The assets of the former officials of the Trujillo dictatorship Fernando A. S\u00e1nchez hijo, Gilberto and Ernesto S\u00e1nchez Ruborosa, Marcos A. G\u00f3mez, doctor Jos\u00e9 A Sob\u00e1, Virgilio \u00c1lvarez S\u00e1nchez, V\u00edctor J. Sued, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Bonnetti Burgos and Virgilio \u00c1lvarez Pina are confiscated.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1996.<\/strong>&nbsp;The PLD presidential candidate, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, chooses Senator Jaime David Fern\u00e1ndez Mirabal as his vice-presidential candidate for the elections of May 16 of this year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2005.<\/strong>&nbsp;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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2009.<\/strong>&nbsp;The authorities investigate the circumstances of the kidnapping and murder of technician Ram\u00f3n Argenis Guerra Flori\u00e1n, 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 M\u00e1rquez.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong>. 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong>. 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022.<\/strong>&nbsp;The group of Ukrainian tourists who have not yet left Punta Cana, stranded in the country due to their nation&#8217;s war with Russia, begin their return from Puerto Plata, on the so-called humanitarian flights.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>International: March 8th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1076.<\/strong>&nbsp;A meteor shower occurs over China, with a total of 45 tons of meteorites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1576<\/strong>.&nbsp;Diego Garc\u00eda de Palacio&nbsp;is the first European to report the existence of the&nbsp;ruins of Cop\u00e1n, at least in writing to his majesty King&nbsp;Philip II of Spain, in his&nbsp;<em>Relatos de Cop\u00e1n<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1576<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Within the framework of the&nbsp;Eighty Years&#8217; War&nbsp;in which the&nbsp;Netherlands&nbsp;was liberated from the invasion of the&nbsp;Spanish Empire, after being unburied for three&nbsp;days due to lack of funds, the Spanish governor&nbsp;Luis de Requesens&nbsp;is buried.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1610<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;King&nbsp;Philip III&nbsp;of Spain, orders the establishment of the&nbsp;Catholic Inquisition&nbsp;in&nbsp;Cartagena de Indias, the current&nbsp;Colombia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1801<\/strong>. In&nbsp;Alexandria, Egypt, the British destroy the French expedition led by&nbsp;Napoleon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1817<\/strong>. In the United States, the&nbsp;New York Stock Exchange&nbsp;is founded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1908<\/strong>. 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&#8217;s Day.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1910.&nbsp;<\/strong>The UN<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>establishes International Women&#8217;s Day and since 1945, it has been celebrated universally.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1917&nbsp;<\/strong>The United States invades Cuba for the third time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1965.&nbsp;<\/strong>The landing of&nbsp;marines (about 3500), American in Vietnam, initiated the previous day, continues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1974.<\/strong>&nbsp;Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, the capital of France, is inaugurated.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1992.<\/strong>&nbsp;About 130 people die, the majority of Chinese origin, when the Thai ferry &#8220;Nava Pratship&#8221; and an oil tanker collide near the coast of the Gulf of Thailand.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>. 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong>. In a US prison in&nbsp;Iraq, Abu Abbas, leader of the&nbsp;Palestine Liberation Front&nbsp;(PLF), dies of natural causes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2007.<\/strong>&nbsp;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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2008.<\/strong>&nbsp;Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica announces his resignation and calls for early elections due to the crisis over his government&#8217;s rapprochement with the EU and the differences over Kosovo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011<\/strong>. The world celebrated the first centenary of the commemoration of International Women&#8217;s Day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014.<\/strong>&nbsp;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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong>. 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&#8217;s crusade against that process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8211; Former Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva affirms that the annulment of his convictions by magistrate Edson Fachin, of the Supreme Court, reflects the &#8220;incompetence&#8221; of the Curitiba court of first instance, responsible for the Lava Jato operation trials.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022<\/strong>. A US jury finds far-rightist&nbsp;Guy Reffitt guilty of five charges related to the&nbsp;assault on the Capitol&nbsp;of 2021, including obstruction of the certification of the presidential elections and transportation of weapons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023.<\/strong>&nbsp;The international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announces the&nbsp;temporary closure&nbsp;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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8211; 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&nbsp;33 homicides, 9 propositions to commit murders&nbsp;and several extortions, as reported on his social networks by the attorney general, Rodolfo Delgado.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024.<\/strong>\u00a0Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez\u00a0becomes 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\u00a0drug trafficking, for which he could be sentenced to life imprisonment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-13-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-621404\" style=\"width:394px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/author\/diario-libre\/255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Births: March 8th Anniversaries<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1714:<\/strong>\u00a0Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1781:<\/strong>\u00a0Juana Azurduy, patriot and heroine of independence in Upper Peru.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1839:<\/strong>\u00a0Josephine Cochrane, American inventor of the first automatic dishwasher.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1847:<\/strong>\u00a0Ces\u00e1reo Guillermo y Bastardo, Dominican politician and president.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1859:<\/strong>\u00a0Kenneth Grahame, British writer, known for\u00a0<em>The Wind in the Willows<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1879:<\/strong>\u00a0Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1892:<\/strong>\u00a0Juana de Ibarbourou, prestigious Uruguayan poet, known as &#8220;Juana de Am\u00e9rica&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1910:<\/strong>\u00a0Claire Trevor, American actress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1941:<\/strong>\u00a0Ram\u00f3n &#8220;Palito&#8221; Ortega, Argentine singer, actor and politician.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1955:<\/strong>\u00a0M\u00f3nica Guti\u00e9rrez, Argentine journalist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1974:<\/strong>\u00a0Carlos Baute, Venezuelan singer and songwriter.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Deaths: March 8th Anniversaries<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1869:<\/strong> French composer <strong>Hector Berlioz<\/strong> dies, one of the great figures of musical romanticism and author of the famous <strong>Symphonie fantastique<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1933:<\/strong> Colombian writer, journalist, and politician <strong>Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Vargas Vila<\/strong> dies, known for his literary works of strong social and political criticism in Latin America.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016:<\/strong> <strong>George Martin<\/strong> dies, British music producer known as \u201cthe fifth Beatle\u201d, for his work with the band <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017:<\/strong> American musician and singer <strong>Chuck Berry<\/strong> dies, considered one of the pioneers of rock and roll and a great influence on modern music.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023:<\/strong> <strong>Juanita Castro<\/strong> dies, sister of <strong>Fidel Castro<\/strong>, known for her critical stance against the Cuban government and for living much of her life in exile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.-\u00a0The events of\u00a0March 8,\u00a0are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0Below, the main events of March 8: Saint&#8217;s Day:\u00a0Saint John of God, Quintilino and Felix. 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