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YEAR 2008
Saturday March 8
Snowstorm in Quebec
- - 30 cm of snow with gusts of wind going up to 130 km hour
- - 80 roads were closed
- - 90,000 hearths were private of electricity
- - is of Quebec was completely paralysed
- - the eighth storm of the winter 2007-2008
- - motorway 20 between Drummondville and Quebec was closed during the night of Saturday to Sunday
- - motorway 40 in the area of Three-Rivers was closed
- - the motorway of Laurentides was closed
- - hundreds of route exits were announced everywhere to Quebec
YEAR 2005
Tuesday March 8
Death of Alice Thomas Elect at the 72 years age
- - English novelist born “Anna Margaret Lindlholm” on September 9, 1932 in Liverpool
author of: - The trilogy of the wintergarden
- Birds of the sky
- A curtain of flames
- - member elect of the price “Writers Guild” in 1990
- - died of a lung cancer
YEAR 2004
Monday March 8
Abou Abbas, dies in an American prison
- - author of the taking of hostages of the Italian steamer Achilles Lauro on October 7, 1985
- - stopped in 2003 in Baghdad where it had found refuge
YEAR 1999
March 8
Death of the player of baseball Joe DiMaggio at the 84 years age
- - he married Marilyn Monroe in 1954
YEAR 1996
March 8
The BBC in England refuses to play the new song “Real Love” of Beatles
- - because of its insufficient musical qualities
YEAR 1992
March 8
Death of Menahem Begin of one heart attack at the 78 years age
- - Israeli politician born in Poland on August 16, 1913
- - it reached the capacity in 1977 (party of Likoud)
- - it signed a peace treaty with Egypt on March 26, 1979 (signed in Washington)
- - it was withdrawn from the policy on September 15, 1983
YEAR 1977
March 8
First international Day of the woman
YEAR 1971
March 8
The boxer Mohammad Ali east demolishes by decision vis-a-vis Joe Frazier in a match of 15 rounds
- - Joe Frazier preserves his championship of the world of the heavy lorries
- - submitted to the Madison Square Garden of New York
YEAR 1963
March 8
During the night, three kingpins are launched on three barracks of Montreal
- - the FLQ “the Face of release of Quebec” asserts the responsibility for this attack
YEAR 1917
March 8
Death of Ferdinand count von of Zeppelin
- officer then industrial German born on July 8, 1838 in Constance
- inventor of the rigid airships in 1900
YEAR 1911
March 8
In New York, the police officers use for the first time the digital fingerprints in the detection of the crime
YEAR 1889
March 8
Death of John Ericsson
- Swedish engineer born on July 31, 1803 with Långbanshyttan (Langbanshyttan)
- inventor of a machine with hot air in 1833
- inventor of an engine hélicïdal in 1837
- deceased in New York
YEAR 1869
March 8
Death of Hector Berlioz
- French type-setter born on December 11, 1803 with the Coast-St-Andre (Isere)
works: - “Damnation of Faust”
- “Benvenuto Cellini”
- “Fantastic Symphony”
- “Large the Mass for the dead”
- “The Childhood of Christ”
- “Trojan”
YEAR 1867
March 8
The Act of British North America is adopted by the British Parliament
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