Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, writer, and cigar factory reader—a person whose job is to read aloud to cigar factory workers. She began writing for her local paper in 1904. In 1905, she became involved with a local anarcho-syndicalist union, organizing an agricultural strike in her hometown of Arecibo and eventually becoming a leader in the union. Starting in 1912, she journeyed across the Atlantic and Caribbean, organizing workers, and in 1915, she was arrested in Cuba for wearing trousers. She was deported back to Puerto Rico but continued to travel and organize until her death. Capetillo published four books in her lifetime, covering a wide variety of forms, genres, and topics. She advocated for free love, universal education, and women's liberation. Interest in her life surged in 1990 with the publication of a biography by journalist Norma Valle Ferrer. Capetillo is considered one of Puerto Rico's earliest feminists. (Full article...)

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Curlew sandpiper

• ... that the small curlew sandpiper (pictured) respects neighbour territories when chasing intruders away?
• ... that following a trilateral agreement, Turkey designated Israel its number-one threat?
• ... that Abdul Rahman Salama, who currently serves as a Governor of Raqqa, used to work at a stone quarry?
• ... that Tolkien: Man and Myth was described as particularly valuable for readers interested in "understand[ing] Tolkien from a religious perspective"?
• ... that Katy Marchant won three British National Track Championships medals within a year of taking up track cycling?
• ... that the Annamite striped rabbit was described by scientists as a new species after it was discovered in a Laotian market?
• ... that tensions erupted between two local CDU associations after Thomas Kossendey ran as a candidate for a constituency?
• ... that a Uruguayan-born victim of the September 11 attacks had founded a community in Sydney to help Uruguayans immigrating to Australia?
• ... that in October 2025, over 1,500 Alaskans protested at a whale statue?

Ali Khamenei

• Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran, killing its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei (pictured), along with other senior officials.
• A Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the Bolivian Air Force crashes into a road in El Alto, killing more than 20 people.
• A military conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan escalates as the countries exchange cross-border strikes.
• Floods in the Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais, Brazil, leave at least 70 people dead and thousands of others displaced.

March 8: International Women's Day; Aurat March in Pakistan

Io with two volcanic plumes

• 1576 – A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.
• 1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.
• 1963 – The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council for the Revolutionary Command.
• 1979 – Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io (pictured), a moon of Jupiter.
• 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, with aircraft debris subsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean.