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Events on the 8th of February in history

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08 Feb 0421 Flavius Constantine becomes Emperor Constantine III of West Roman Empire
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08 Feb 0421 Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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08 Feb 1238 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
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08 Feb 1250 Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
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08 Feb 1347 The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
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08 Feb 1526 Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die
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08 Feb 1575 University of Leiden Neth opens
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08 Feb 1575 Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
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08 Feb 1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
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08 Feb 1600 Vatican convicts Scholar Giordano Bruno to death
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08 Feb 1601 Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London
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08 Feb 1601 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed.
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08 Feb 1622 King James I disbands the English parliament
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08 Feb 1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
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08 Feb 1690 French and Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire
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08 Feb 1690 Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
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08 Feb 1693 William and Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US
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08 Feb 1693 The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
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08 Feb 1726 The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
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08 Feb 1735 1st opera in US "Flora, " opens in Charleston, South Carolina
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08 Feb 1743 Comet C / 1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
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08 Feb 1744 French / Spanish fleet leaves Toulon
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08 Feb 1750 Minor earthquake in London
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08 Feb 1775 Leidse U 400th anniversary dinner
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08 Feb 1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock
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08 Feb 1807 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
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08 Feb 1807 Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq
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08 Feb 1809 Franz I of Austria declares war on France
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08 Feb 1817 Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
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08 Feb 1837 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
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08 Feb 1837 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
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08 Feb 1855 The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
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08 Feb 1856 Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
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08 Feb 1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
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08 Feb 1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
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08 Feb 1862 Opera "Lily of Killarney, " premieres in London
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08 Feb 1865 1st black Major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
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08 Feb 1865 In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
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08 Feb 1879 The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
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08 Feb 1879 Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
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08 Feb 1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen
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08 Feb 1885 The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
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08 Feb 1887 Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club
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08 Feb 1887 Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)
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08 Feb 1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
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08 Feb 1889 Flood ravages Dutch coast
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08 Feb 1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
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08 Feb 1896 Western Conference forms of Midwestern University, later renamed Big 10 Conf
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08 Feb 1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding and gumming mach (Mass)
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08 Feb 1904 Russo-Japanese War begins
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08 Feb 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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08 Feb 1905 Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
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08 Feb 1909 France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco
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08 Feb 1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D Boyce-Chic)
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08 Feb 1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
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08 Feb 1911 US helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras
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08 Feb 1912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Florida
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08 Feb 1914 General Zamon becomes President of Haiti
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08 Feb 1915 D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
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08 Feb 1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
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08 Feb 1916 NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats
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08 Feb 1918 "Stars & Stripes, " weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
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08 Feb 1922 Radio arrives at the White House
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08 Feb 1922 United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House.
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08 Feb 1923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
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08 Feb 1923 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
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08 Feb 1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chic
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08 Feb 1924 Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
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08 Feb 1925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
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08 Feb 1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
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08 Feb 1926 Walt Disney Studios forms
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08 Feb 1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
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08 Feb 1928 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York
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08 Feb 1928 Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
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08 Feb 1929 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
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08 Feb 1930 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
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08 Feb 1931 Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
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08 Feb 1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
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08 Feb 1934 Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC
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08 Feb 1934 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government
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08 Feb 1935 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of University of Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL
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08 Feb 1936 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger
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08 Feb 1936 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota
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08 Feb 1936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs. Rangers
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08 Feb 1936 Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as Chairman of India Congress Party
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08 Feb 1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
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08 Feb 1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
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08 Feb 1942 World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
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08 Feb 1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk
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08 Feb 1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
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08 Feb 1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland
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08 Feb 1945 Allied air attack on Goch / Kleef / Kalkar / Reichswald
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08 Feb 1945 World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
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08 Feb 1946 Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
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08 Feb 1946 The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
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08 Feb 1947 Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
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08 Feb 1947 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St. Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
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08 Feb 1948 5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland
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08 Feb 1948 The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
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08 Feb 1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
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08 Feb 1949 Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
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08 Feb 1950 The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
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08 Feb 1952 "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day, " debuts on NBC TV
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08 Feb 1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
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08 Feb 1953 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
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08 Feb 1953 WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
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08 Feb 1955 Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
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08 Feb 1955 The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
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08 Feb 1956 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
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08 Feb 1958 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as Premier of South Rhodesia
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08 Feb 1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
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08 Feb 1958 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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08 Feb 1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
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08 Feb 1960 Congress opens hearings looking into payola
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08 Feb 1960 The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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08 Feb 1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
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08 Feb 1962 KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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08 Feb 1962 Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
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08 Feb 1963 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
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08 Feb 1963 The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
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08 Feb 1963 The first full color television program in the world, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican engineer Guillermo González Camarena.
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08 Feb 1963 Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
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08 Feb 1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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08 Feb 1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
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08 Feb 1965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
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08 Feb 1965 Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
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08 Feb 1967 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
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08 Feb 1967 Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
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08 Feb 1967 Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
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08 Feb 1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
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08 Feb 1968 American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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08 Feb 1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
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08 Feb 1969 Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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08 Feb 1971 Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
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08 Feb 1971 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
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08 Feb 1971 South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
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08 Feb 1971 The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
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08 Feb 1972 Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame
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08 Feb 1973 Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches, " premieres in New York City
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08 Feb 1973 Mushtaq and Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs. New Zealand
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08 Feb 1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
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08 Feb 1974 "Good Times, " debuts on CBS TV
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08 Feb 1974 Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
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08 Feb 1974 Military coup in Upper Volta.
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08 Feb 1974 After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
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08 Feb 1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
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08 Feb 1976 Hua Guofeng becomes Premier of China PR
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08 Feb 1976 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic
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08 Feb 1976 Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs. Washington - 21,130)
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08 Feb 1977 Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
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08 Feb 1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced due to
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08 Feb 1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait
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08 Feb 1978 Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
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08 Feb 1981 "Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
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08 Feb 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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08 Feb 1981 US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
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08 Feb 1981 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
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08 Feb 1981 Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
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08 Feb 1983 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander
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08 Feb 1983 Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino
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08 Feb 1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
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08 Feb 1983 Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W) - 46 days
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08 Feb 1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period
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08 Feb 1983 The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
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08 Feb 1984 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
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08 Feb 1984 1st time 8 people in space
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08 Feb 1984 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
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08 Feb 1985 Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
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08 Feb 1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
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08 Feb 1986 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
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08 Feb 1986 Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
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08 Feb 1987 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
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08 Feb 1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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08 Feb 1988 NASA launches DOD-2
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08 Feb 1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
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08 Feb 1989 Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
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08 Feb 1989 US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
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08 Feb 1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
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08 Feb 1990 David Hares "Racing Demon, " premieres in London
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08 Feb 1991 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
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08 Feb 1992 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France
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08 Feb 1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
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08 Feb 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
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08 Feb 1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
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08 Feb 1993 General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
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08 Feb 1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
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08 Feb 1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
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08 Feb 1996 The massive Internet collaboration 24 Hours in Cyberspace takes place.
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08 Feb 1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
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08 Feb 1998 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
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08 Feb 1998 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at New York City
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08 Feb 1998 NHL stops season until February 24th to accommodate the Olympics
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08 Feb 2010 A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
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08 Feb 2013 A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
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08 Feb 2014 A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.
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