📜 This Day in History
March 8
1576A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first known mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.- 1702Anne became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding her brother-in-law William III.
- 1919During the Egyptian Revolution, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul and exiled him to Malta.
- 1963The 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.
- 1979Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter.
- 2017The Azure Window, a limestone natural arch in Gozo, Malta, collapsed during a stor
