March 8 in history: • 1576 – A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first known mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras. → go there • 1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence. → go there • 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. → go there • 1979 – Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io (pictured), a moon of Jupiter. → go there • 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. → go there Died 1137: Adela of Normandy Wiki link Born 1924: Louie Nunn Wiki link Died 1976: Alfons Rebane Wiki link Died 2013: Haseeb Ahsan Wiki link Pictured: Io with two volcanic plumes.