On this day: March 8

March 8: International Women's Day; Mother's Day in various countries

Nader Shah

• 1658 – After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars, King Frederick III of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his Danish territory to Sweden to save the rest.
• 1736 – Nader Shah (pictured), founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.
• 1924 – Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah, US, killed all 171 miners working there.
• 1963 – The Ba'ath Party came to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
• 1983 – The Cold War: During a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".

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