February 8

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on February 8. From 1900 until now. February 8 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include James Dean (1931), Mathilda May (1965) and Lana Turner (1921). Several movies were released around February 8 over the years, such as Pyaasa in 1957 directed by Guru Dutt and To Be or Not to Be in 1942 directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
But much more happened on February 8 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Nirvana Day - an annual Buddhist festival.
Saint Jerome Emiliani.
Saint Juventius
Saint Mengold of Huy
Saint Jacoba (d.1239)
Slovenia - Pre?eren Day, the Slovenian cultural holiday.
Boy Scouts of America - Scout Sunday; The Sunday preceding February 8 is designated as Scout Sunday and the following Saturday is designated as Scout Sabbath.
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Events

2019 2018–19 North American winter: Washington Governor Jay Inslee declares a state of emergency as a winter storm that could bring up to 8 inches (20 cm) of snow begins to affect the state. (NBC News)
2018 American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War: Syria and the Russian Federation once again state that the United States' military presence in Syria is "illegal". United States and US-backed forces now have control of about a quarter of Syrian territory. (The Washington Post)
2017 War in Donbass: Donetsk People's Republic commander Mikhail Tolstykh, better known by his nom de guerre "Givi", is killed in a bomb blast in Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast. DPR officials blame the Security Service of Ukraine for the attack. (BBC)
2016 Libyan Civil War (2014–present): A Libyan Air Force MiG-23 fighter jet crashes due to a "mechanical failure", while conducting airstrikes on Islamic State-controlled areas in the eastern city of Derna. (Reuters)
2015 In Cairo, Egypt, clashes between police and fans of Zamalek SC kill 22 people. Egyptian authorities indefinitely suspend football league matches. (BBC), (AP)
2014 McDonald's opens their first restaurant within Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. (BBC)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Over 110 people are killed nationwide by the Syrian army in Syria. (Al Arabiya)
2012 Pakistani officials claim that US drone missiles have killed ten people in Spalga village in North Waziristan. (AP via Google News) (Reuters)
2011 A suspected US spy drone crashes near the south Yemen town of Loder with witnesses claiming that Al-Qaeda removed the wreckage. (AFP via Google News)
2010 US Democratic Representative John Murtha, chairman of the House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee, dies at age 77, from complications related to gallbladder surgery.
2009 In Los Angeles, California, the Grammay Awards are presented: Best album: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss for "Raising Sand"
2008 In the USA, the Supreme Court of Nebraska rules the electric chair is unconstitutional (cruel and unusual). This is the last state in the country to have allowed death by the electric chair.
2007 American model and television personality Anna Nicole Smith dies of combined drug intoxication in Hollywood, Florida at age 39 (born 1967).
2006 Chad and Sudan sign the Tripoli Agreement, ending the Chadian-Sudanese conflict. (AlertNet)
2005 Conflict in Iraq: Guerrillas in Baquba detonate a car bomb outside an Iraqi police headquarters, killing 15 and wounding 17. A suicide bomber in Mosul kills 12 policemen and injures 4 others. In another area of the city, guerrillas fire a dozen mortar rounds at a police station, killing 3 civilians. (Scotsman/AP)
2004 2004 Democratic presidential primaries: John Kerry wins the Democratic caucus in Maine with 45 percent of the vote. Howard Dean comes in second place with 27 percent, with Dennis Kucinich (16 percent), John Edwards (8 percent), and Wesley Clark (4 percent) trailing.
2003 Sections of a 'dodgy dossier' issued by the UK government, which purported to present the latest British intelligence about Iraq, and which had been cited by Tony Blair and Colin Powell as evidence for the need for war, were criticized as plagiarisms. They had been copied without permission from a number of sources including ''Jane's Intelligence Review'' and a 12-year-old doctoral thesis of a Californian student that had been published in the US journal ''Middle East Review of International
2002 February 24 ampndash The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2001 In Anaheim, California, Disney's California Adventure theme park opens, next to Disneyland. The 55-acre site includes three areas: Paradise Pier, Hollywood Pictures Backlot, and the Golden State. The theme park cost US$1.4 billion to build. Admission prices are US$43 for adults, and US$33 for children.
2000 Bob Collins' plane collides with that of a student pilot over Zion, Illinois.
1998 NHL stops season until February 24th to accommodate the Olympics.
1996 The massive Internet collaboration ''24 Hours in Cyberspace'' takes place.
1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed).
1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
1993 GM sues NBC, alleging that Dateline NBC program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
1992 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France
1990 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
1988 NASA launches DOD-2.
1987 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (overtime) at Seattle, Washington.
1986 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano.
1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea.
1984 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of four goals in one period.
1981 Brigadoon closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1978 The proceedings of the United States Senate are first broadcast on radio.
1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced due to
1976 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic.
1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
1974 Good Times, debuts on CBS TV
1973 Jean Kerrs Finishing Touches, premieres in New York City
1972 Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try and cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post.
1968 Officers kill three students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg).
1967 Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
1966 The National Hockey League expands to twelve teams.
1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic Ocean off Jones Beach, New Jersey, USA; 84 dead.
1964 Representative Martha Griffiths' address gets civil rights protection for women added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1962 KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 US Congress opens hearings looking into payola.
1958 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Connie Mack, baseball manager (Philadelphia Athletics, 1901-50), dies at age 93.
1955 Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him.
1953 WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
1952 RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day, debuts on NBC TV
1950 Payment first made by Diners Club card, in New York, first use of a charge card.
1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
1948 5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland
1947 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St. Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1946 Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties.
1945 Allied air attack on Goch / Kleef / Kalkar / Reichswald
1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
1942 US Congress advises President Franklin Roosevelt that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort.
1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore.
1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
1937 Spanish Civil War: Falangist troops take Málaga.
1936 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger
1934 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government.
1933 -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Seminole, Texas (state record low).
1931 Gas explosion, fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000.
1930 Happy Days Are Here Again by Benny Mereoff hits #1
1929 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
1928 Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV.
1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed.
1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership.
1925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
1924 US mobster Gee John is first executed in gas chamber, in Nevada.
1923 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
1922 Radio arrives at the White House
1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374.
1915 D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1914 General Zamon becomes President of Haiti.
1911 US helps overthrow President Miguel D�vila of Honduras.
1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D Boyce-Chicago).
1909 France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco.
1905 Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people.
1904 Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
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