March 8
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March 8 in history:
- 1942: Japanese forces occupied Rangoon (now known as Yangon), Burma, during World War II.
- 1917: Riots and strikes over the lack of food in Saint Petersburg (Petrograd) signaled the beginning the first Russian Revolution of 1917.
- 1913: The Internal Revenue Service began to collect income taxes after passage of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.
- 1782: Colonial militia massacred some 90 Christian Indians, converts of David Zeisberger and other Moravian missionaries, at the settlement of Gnadenhutten, Ohio.
