Talk:March 8

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March 8: International Women's Day; Mother's Day in various European countries 1702 – Princess Anne (pictured) became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding William III. 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio died at the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhutten massacre. 1966 – Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar with a statue of Lord Nelson on top in Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed by a bomb. 1983 – The Cold War: During a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire". 1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in a car-bombing in Beirut killed more than 80 people and injured almost 200 others. More events: March 7 – March 8 – March 9 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 05:06, June 14, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Who is Sandra Cougler (found in birth list)? Couldn't find anything in Google, so I suppose this was added just for fun.Who knows send a email to mczack@gmx.net.

[edit] International Women's Day

the article states that:

• 1911 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time.

ive read here (Arabic) that the celebration of the womens day in 1911 happened on the 19th of march, and that in 1977 8th of march was chosen by the UN general assembly to celebrate the International Women's Day! any reference to the date in the current article?

[edit] Discussion over disputed entries.

The page has been protected to stop the recent disputes over the two additions to the article (the IRS/income tax and US Civil War entries). Please discuss these changes below, and arive at a consensus before the protection is lifted. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 16:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The additions in question are:

• 1861 - St. Augustine, Florida surrenders to Union forces.
• 1913 - The Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect federal income taxes, as provided for under the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Federal income taxes had previously beencollected from 1864-1872.
• 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India.
• 1934 - A photograph by astronomer Edwin Hubble shows there are as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way.
• 1979 - First extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of the planet Jupiter.
• 1991 - First U.S. troops arrive home from the Gulf War; Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and two American soldiers it had captured.

While I don't doubt that the editor was initially acting in good faith, the contributions ultimately were treated as vandalism when the editor would not engage in discussion on the entries. While the entries might be considered notable enough for inclusion, they do not link to articles that support them. Since the entries could not be verified they needed to be removed. Further, since the editor was blocked for the edits on one IP (74.127.88.11) and proceeded to insert the events with another IP (64.244.252.35) and then created a user account (Pascheez) all while ignoring warnings, I could only assume that the editor was no longer acting in good faith. The reversions that I made today were in an effort "to undo actions performed by banned users or currently blocked users evading their block;" per Wikipedia:3rr#Exceptions. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 16:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)