On March 8, 1765, the British House of Lords passed the Stamp Act to tax the American Colonies.
In 1874 the 13th U.S. president, Millard Fillmore, died in Buffalo.
In 1942 Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma, during World War II.
In 1944 U.S. bombers resumed bombing Berlin.
In 1948 the Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violates the Constitution.
In 1971 Joe Frazier became the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world with a unanimous 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali in New York.
In 1983 President Ronald Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as an “evil empire.”
In 1995 two U.S. diplomats were killed, one injured, when their car was ambushed as they were driving to the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
In 1996 Dr. Jack Kevorkian was acquitted of assisted suicide for helping two suffering patients kill themselves.
In 1999 New York Yankees baseball star Joe DiMaggio died in Hollywood, Fla.; he was 84.
In 2001 the Republican-controlled House voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, handing President George W. Bush a major victory only 48 days into his term.
In 2002 Kmart Corp. announced the closing of 284 stores and elimination of 22,000 jobs.
In 2004 Iraq’s Governing Council signed a landmark interim constitution.
