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March 8: International Women's Day; Aurat March in Pakistan

Io with two volcanic plumes

1576 – A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.
1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.
1963 – The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council for the Revolutionary Command.
1966 – Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar topped by a statue of Lord Nelson in Dublin, Ireland, was severely damaged by a bomb.
1979 – Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io (pictured), a moon of Jupiter.

Adela of Normandy (d. 1137)
Louie Nunn (b. 1924)
Alfons Rebane (d. 1976)
Haseeb Ahsan (d. 2013)

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