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Today in History
Sunday, 08 March 2026
2004
A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
1999
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
1985
A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
1983
President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1979
Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1978
The first radio episode of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1974
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1966
A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1963
The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1957
Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
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