Today is Wednesday, March 8, the 67th day of 2023 with 298 to follow.

This is International Women's Day.

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The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars Uranus and Venus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1841; Scottish writer Kenneth Grahame in 1859; German nuclear chemist Otto Hahn, discoverer of nuclear fission, in 1879; actor Louise Beavers in 1902; actor Claire Trevor in 1910; dancer/actor Cyd Charisse in 1922; actor Susan Clark in 1943 (age 80); actor Lynn Redgrave in 1943; musician Micky Dolenz in 1945 (age 78); musician Randy Meisner in 1946 (age 77); songwriter Carole Bayer Sager in 1947 (age 76); baseball Hall of Fame member Jim Rice in 1953 (age 70); actor Aidan Quinn in 1959 (age 64); television journalist Lester Holt in 1959 (age 64); actor Camryn Manheim in 1961 (age 62); actor Boris Kodjoe in 1973 (age 50); actor Freddie Prinze Jr. in 1976 (age 47); actor James Van Der Beek in 1977 (age 46); tattooist/TV personality Kat Von D, born Katherine von Drachenberg, in 1982 (age 41); actor Milana Vayntrub in 1987 (age 36).On this date in history:

In 1817, the New York Stock Exchange was established.

In 1913, the Internal Revenue Service began to levy and collect income taxes in the United States.

In 1914, International Women's Day was observed on March 8 for the first time and would go on to be marked on this day annually. The United Nations began officially celebrating the day in 1977.

In 1917, strikes and riots in St. Petersburg marked the start of the Russian Bolshevik revolution.

In 1921, after Germany failed to make its first war reparation payment, French troops occupied Dusseldorf and other towns on the Ruhr River in Germany's industrial heartland.

In 1943, Allied planes led by the Royal Air Force bombed the German city of Nuremberg, an important military manufacturing site. By the end of World War II, the vast majority of the city was destroyed by Allied bombings.

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In 1957, Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international traffic after Israel withdrew from occupied Egyptian territory.

In 1965, nearly 4,000 U.S. Marines landed in South Vietnam.

In 1974, the streaking epidemic that had been gripped parts of the United States appeared to run its logical course.

In 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" in a speech before the British House of Commons.

In 1990, Colombia's M-19 leftist guerrilla group surrendered its arms, ending 16 years of insurrection.

In 1999, baseball great Joe DiMaggio died at age 84.

In 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush vetoed legislation that would have outlawed severe interrogation methods such as waterboarding used by the CIA. Bush said the proposal would eliminate "one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror."

In 2010, up to 500 people were killed in a nighttime "ethnic cleansing" raid on a village near Nigeria's turbulent city of Jos.

In 2013, former Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem and ex-Defense Minister Oscar Camilion were convicted of smuggling weapons to Croatia and Ecuador.

In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 carrying 239 people vanished over the Indian Ocean en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. A massive search found no sign of the plane and a government statement months later said all aboard -- 227 passengers and 12 crew members -- "are presumed to have lost their lives."

In 2022, David Bennett, a 57-year-old man who became the first to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig, died two months after the historic surgery.

A thought for the day: "No one can figure out your worth but you." -- American actor/singer Pearl Bailey