Notable Historical Events on February 8th
February 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
421 |
Flavius Constantine becomes Co-Emperor as Emperor Constantius III of the Western Roman Empire with Honorius |
1526 |
Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die |
1575 |
University Leiden founded, and given the motto "Praesidium Libertatis" |
1600 |
Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death |
1601 |
Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London |
1622 |
King James I disbands the English parliament |
1672 |
Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London |
1690 |
French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire |
1690 |
Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal |
1693 |
William & Mary college is chartered in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia (2nd in North America) |
1726 |
The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia. |
1735 |
1st opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC |
1743 |
Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth |
1744 |
French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon |
1750 |
Minor earthquake in London |
1775 |
Leidse U 400th anniversary dinner |
1776 |
Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg |
1802 |
Simon Willard patents banjo clock |
1807 |
Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and Russian Empire - 1st battle Napoleon isn't victorious |
1809 |
Franz I of Austria declares war on France |
1837 |
1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin) |
1849 |
New Roman Republic established. |
1855 |
The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon. |
1861 |
Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War) |
1862 |
Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound |
1862 |
Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London |
1865 |
1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany |
1867 |
The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. |
1879 |
Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute. |
1883 |
Louis Waterman begins experiment to invent the fountain pen |
1887 |
Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club |
1887 |
Under the Dawes Act indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship |
1887 |
The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. |
1889 |
Flood ravages Dutch coast |
1894 |
Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks |
1895 |
Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg |
1896 |
Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris |
1896 |
Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf |
1898 |
John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass) |
1905 |
Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people |
1906 |
Without warning, Japanese torpedo boats make a night attack on Russian ships near the naval base at Port Arthur, Manchuria; there is confusion because no deceleration of war was given |
1908 |
Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth |
1909 |
France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco |
1910 |
The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. |
1911 |
US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras |
1912 |
1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla |
1912 |
British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength |
1914 |
General Zamon becomes president of Haiti |
1915 |
D. W. Griffith's silent film "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA - first 12-reel film in America |
1916 |
French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 |
1916 |
NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats |
1918 |
"Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published |
1920 |
Swiss men vote against women's suffrage |
1922 |
Radio arrives at the White House |
1923 |
Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120 |
1923 |
German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily |
1924 |
1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chic |
1925 |
Kaufman & Berlin's "cocoanuts," premieres in NYC |
1925 |
Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta |
1926 |
German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership |
1926 |
Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin |
1926 |
Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios |
1927 |
Belgian-Swiss treaty signed |
1928 |
1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY |
1928 |
Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV |
1929 |
KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions |
1930 |
"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1 |
1931 |
Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000 |
1933 |
-23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record) |
1933 |
1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247 |
1934 |
Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC |
1934 |
Gaston Doumergue forms new French government |
1935 |
1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL |
1936 |
1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger |
1936 |
1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn |
1936 |
1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers |
1936 |
Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party |
1937 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings," premieres in NYC |
1940 |
Lewis & Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show," premieres in NYC |
1940 |
Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland |
1941 |
NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio |
1942 |
Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore (WWII) |
1942 |
Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles |
1942 |
Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort |
1943 |
Red Army recaptures Kursk |
1944 |
1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin |
1944 |
U-762 sunk off Ireland |
1945 |
Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald |
1945 |
Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach |
1946 |
Béla Bartók's 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Philadelphia, PA, US |
1946 |
Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties |
1947 |
Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51) |
1947 |
KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1948 |
5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland |
1949 |
Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison |
1952 |
"RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV |
1952 |
Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom |
1953 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
1953 |
WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins |
1955 |
Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him |
1955 |
The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants. |
1956 |
Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die |
1957 |
SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall |
1958 |
Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia |
1958 |
French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die |
1958 |
KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51) |
1960 |
Congress opens hearings looking into payola |
1960 |
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued 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". |
1962 |
KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) |
1963 |
AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs |
1963 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1964 |
Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London |
1964 |
Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
1965 |
Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84 |
1965 |
Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love" |
1967 |
Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games) |
1967 |
Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership |
1967 |
Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down |
1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg) |
1969 |
Last edition of Saturday Evening Post |
1969 |
Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico |
1971 |
Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ |
1971 |
South Vietnamese troops invade Laos |
1971 |
The Nasdaq stock market index debuts. |
1972 |
Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame |
1973 |
Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in NYC |
1973 |
Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket v NZ |
1973 |
Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal |
1974 |
"Good Times," debuts on CBS TV |
1974 |
Ringo releases "You're 16" |
1974 |
Skylab 4's astronauts land |
1974 |
Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run |
1975 |
1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea |
1975 |
Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders |
1976 |
Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR |
1976 |
Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic |
1976 |
Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130) |
1976 |
"Taxi Driver", starring Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, is released |
1977 |
Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966 |
1977 |
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges |
1978 |
Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait |
1978 |
Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time. |
1979 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1979 |
Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time. |
1981 |
"5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 perfs |
1981 |
"Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances |
1981 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
1981 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak |
1981 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
1982 |
Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey) |
1983 |
35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at NY Islander |
1983 |
Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino |
1983 |
Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days |
1983 |
Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in NYC |
1983 |
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period |
1983 |
Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance |
1984 |
14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
1984 |
1st time 8 people in space |
1984 |
A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation |
1984 |
Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7 |
1985 |
1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados |
1985 |
Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot |
1985 |
Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75) |
1985 |
Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea |
1986 |
5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition |
1986 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
1986 |
1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world. |
1986 |
The crime film "A Better Tomorrow", starring Yun Fat Chow, premieres in Hong Kong |
1987 |
37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle |
1987 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
1988 |
NASA launches DOD-2 |
1989 |
5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles |
1989 |
Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days |
1989 |
US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die |
1990 |
David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London |
1990 |
"60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine |
1991 |
Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract |
1992 |
"I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1 |
1992 |
16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France |
1992 |
Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter |
1993 |
Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die |
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 |
1994 |
Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car |
1994 |
Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432 |
1994 |
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm |
1995 |
6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed) |
1996 |
NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Balt but he had to leave the Browns' name behind |
1996 |
The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act. |
1996 |
The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place. |
1998 |
1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0 |
1998 |
48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at NYC |
1998 |
NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics |
2002 |
XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
2004 |
46th Grammy Awards: Clocks, Evanescence wins |
2004 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 55-52 |
2005 |
Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire. |
2006 |
48th Grammy Awards: Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, John Legend wins |
2008 |
Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method. |
2009 |
51st Grammy Awards: Please Read The Letter, Adele wins |
2009 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 30-21 |
2013 |
16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan |
2013 |
100, 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka |
2013 |
29 people are killed and 69 are injured in a series of Iraq bombings |
2013 |
A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people |
2014 |
15 people are killed & 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia |
2014 |
17 people are killed after a truck & bus collide in Mendoza, Argentina |
2014 |
Ole Einar Bjørndalen equals the Winter Olympics medal record with 12 |
2016 |
Haiti's President steps down, leaving no successor |
2016 |
Chicago cop who killed Quintonio LeGrier sues teen's estate for $10 million |
2017 |
Triple-murder suspect kills self after motel standoff in Georgia |
2018 |
More than 400 killed in Syrian airstrikes on rebel areas, UN calls for ceasefire |
2018 |
Pelosi stages 8-hour speech to push for vote for 'Dreamers' |
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