This day in History - March 8

389 Historic Events for March 8
1907 Birth Charles Boost, movie critic
1908 Event Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers
1908 Event Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY
1909 Birth Hugh Murphy, English multi-millionaire
1909 Birth Claire Trevor, [Wemlinger], NYC, actress (Marjorie Morningstar)
1909 Birth Anthony Donato, composer
1910 Event Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
1911 Event 1st International Woman's Day
1911 Birth Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian
1911 Birth Alan Hovhaness, Somerville Mass, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo)
1913 Event Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes
1913 Event Federal League organizes with 6 teams
1914 Birth Jacob B Bakema, urban developer (St Louis Missouri)
1915 Event 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
1915 Birth Vivien John, artist
1916 Event US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1916 Birth R W Schnell, writer
1917 Death Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78
1917 Event Russian revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24] (in Petrograd)
1917 Birth A Marja, [ATE Mooy], Dutch literary (Shreds on the River)
1918 Birth Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr, LA Calif, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island)
1919 Birth Ivor Keys, musician/teacher
1919 Death Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88
1920 Event Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations
1920 Death Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69