March 08

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1618	Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.	Yo La Tengo	Periodically Double or Triple	Popular Songs
2	1775	An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America," the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.	Triumvirat	The Deadly Dream of Freedom	Spartacus
3	1844	King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.	Gray Matter	Oscar's Eye	20 Years of Dischord
4	1910	French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.	Built to Spill	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Ancient Melodies of the Future
5	1917	International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).	Babyface Featuring the Neptunes	There She Goes	Face 2 Face
6	1949	Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison on count of treason	The Jaynetts	Sally Go Round the Roses	Golden Age of American Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 1
7	1978	The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.	Marvin Gaye	Hitch Hike	That Stubborn Kind of Fellow
8	1983	President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire".	The Flaming Lips	Evil	Embryonic

(Historical facts about March 08 are from Wikipedia.)