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Today in History
Today is Monday, March 8, the 67th day of 2021. There are 298 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 239 people on board, vanished during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, setting off a massive and ultimately unsuccessful search.
On this date:
In 1618, German astronomer Johannes Kepler devised his third law of planetary motion.
In 1817, the New York Stock & Exchange Board, which had its beginnings in 1792, was formally organized; it later became known as the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1930, the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, died in Washington at age 72.
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Hunt for MH370 may be BACK ON as bombshell evidence pinpoints new search zone in the Indian Ocean
Updated: 8 Mar 2021, 12:24
THE head of the hunt for missing jet MH370 says there should a new search after fresh evidence pinpointed the likely wreckage site.
It comes seven years to the day after the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 vanished with 239 people on board, sparking the world s greatest aviation mystery.
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A £110million search led by Australia scoured 50,000 square miles of Indian Ocean floor using high-resolution sonar from 2014 to 2017.
A second search sponsored by the Malaysian government also failed to find any trace.
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A look at some of today s top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.
Two unidentified women were charged Saturday
after a customer disagreement in a
Scottsdale Bath & Body Works turned into a brawl with employees.
Sunday’s high temperature of
A fight against a land swap that
would allow a copper mine at
Today, you can expect it to be sunny, with a high near 83 degrees. Partly at night, with a low near 56 degrees. Get the full forecast here.
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