What Happened On 8th March 2013 In History

March 8th Famous Deaths for 2013

• » Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1939)
• » Hartmut Briesenick, German shot putter (b. 1949)
• » Hakob Hakobian (painter) called Hakob Hakobian, Egyptian-Armenian painter (b. 1923)
• » George Saimes, American football player (b. 1941)
• » Raymond Telles, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (b. 1915)
• » Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (b. 1922)
• » Ginny Wood, American environmentalist, co-founded the Alaska Conservation Society (b. 1917)

March 8th Holidays in History

• » Christian Feast Day:
• » John of God
• » Philemon the actor
• » Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Edward King (bishop of Lincoln) named Edward King, Felix of Burgundy (Church of England)
• » Earliest day on which Canberra Day can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March (Australian Capital Territory)
• » Earliest day on which Commonwealth Day can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March (Commonwealth of Nations)
• » Earliest day on which Passion Sunday can fall, while April 17 is the latest; observed on the fifth Sunday of Lent (Christianity)

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