On March 8
On March 8, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Ferdowsi completes the Shahnameh, the Persian Book of Kings (1010).
On this day
On 8 March 1010 CE the poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi completed the Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), the national epic of Greater Iran, after roughly three decades of work begun around 977 CE in his native Tus in the Khorasan region.
Also this week in history (Mar 5 – Mar 11)
On 9 March 1776 Adam Smith published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, the founding text of classical economics.
Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 11 March 1985 and launched two interlinked reform programmes.
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Speaking at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered an address officially titled "The Sinews of Peace." In it he warned that "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste…
On 6 March 1957 the Gold Coast became the independent state of Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African colony to win majority-rule independence from a European power.
Between 9 and 15 March 2016 in Seoul, South Korea, AlphaGo, a program developed by the London-based DeepMind, defeated the world-class player Lee Sedol four games to one in the ancient board game Go.
On 11 March 2018 China's National People's Congress voted overwhelmingly, 2,958 in favour with only two opposed, to amend the constitution and remove the two-term limit on the presidency, clearing the way for Xi Jinping to remain in office…