Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/March 8
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- 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
- 1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
- 1978 - The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
- 1983 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."