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08 Feb 1575
University Leiden founded and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis
08 Feb 1600
Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
08 Feb 1601
Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London
08 Feb 1690
French and Native American troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire
08 Feb 1693
William & Mary College is chartered in Williamsburg in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia (second in North America)
08 Feb 1726
The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia
08 Feb 1735
First opera in North American colonies Flora opens in Charleston South Carolina
08 Feb 1743
Comet C C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
08 Feb 1776
Wolfgang von Goethes Stella premieres in Hamburg
08 Feb 1837
1st US Vice-President chosen by Senate Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
08 Feb 1855
The Devils Footprints hoof-like marks mysteriously appear for over 60km after a snowfall in southern Devon England
08 Feb 1861
Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery Alabama (US Civil War)
08 Feb 1862
Battle of Roanoke Island NC Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
08 Feb 1865
Martin Robison Delany 1st black major in US Army appointed during US Civil war
08 Feb 1867
The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
08 Feb 1879
Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
08 Feb 1883
Louis Waterman begins experiment to invent the fountain pen
08 Feb 1887
Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing Minn became the 1st US ski club
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. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe were granted United States citizenship.
08 Feb 1894
Enforcement Act repealed making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
08 Feb 1896
Georges Feydeaus Le Dindon premieres in Paris
08 Feb 1896
Western Conference forms of Midwestern U later renamed Big 10 Conf
08 Feb 1898
John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass)
08 Feb 1905
Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands killing some 10000 people
08 Feb 1906
Without warning Japanese torpedo boats make a night attack on Russian ships near naval base at Port Arthur Manchuria confusion because no declaration of war given
08 Feb 1908
Wilhelmina 08 soccer team forms in Weert Netherlands
08 Feb 1910
The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce
08 Feb 1911
US helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras
08 Feb 1912
1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville Florida
08 Feb 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
08 Feb 1916
French cruiser Admiral Charner torpedoed off Syrian coast kills 374
08 Feb 1916
NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats
08 Feb 1918
Stars & Stripes weekly US armed forces newspaper 1st published
08 Feb 1920
Bolshevik troops capture Odessa bringing an end to foreign involvement in the resistance against Bolshevik rule
08 Feb 1923
Coal mine explosion at Dawson New Mexico kills 120
08 Feb 1932
American speed skater Irving Jaffee wins the 10000m at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics clinches distance double after also taking out the 5000m
08 Feb 1933
-23F (-31C) Seminole Texas (state record)
08 Feb 1934
Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington D.C.
08 Feb 1936
NFL Draft (first ever) Jay Berwanger from University of Chicago first pick by Philadelphia Eagles
08 Feb 1936
1st ski jumping tournament Red Wing Minnesota
08 Feb 1936
1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot Conacher vs Rangers
08 Feb 1936
Pandit Jawaharlal suceeds Mahatma Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
08 Feb 1936
German alpine skier Christi Cranz wins the inaugural Olympic womens combined gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games ahead of team mate Kthe Grasegger
08 Feb 1923
German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
08 Feb 1924
1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
08 Feb 1925
Kaufman & Berlins musical cocoanuts premieres in New York City
08 Feb 1925
Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
08 Feb 1926
German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
08 Feb 1926
Sean OCaseys Plough & Stars opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
08 Feb 1928
1st transatlantic TV image received Hartsdale NY
08 Feb 1929
KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
08 Feb 1930
Happy Days Are Here Again by Benny Mereoff hits 1
08 Feb 1931
Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine Manchuria kills 3000
08 Feb 1937
Maxwell Andersons Masque of Kings premieres in NYC
08 Feb 1940
Lewis & Hamiltons musical Two for the Show premieres in NYC
08 Feb 1940
Lodtz 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
08 Feb 1941
NSBer Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
08 Feb 1942
Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore (WWII)
08 Feb 1942
Stravinskys Danses Concertantes premieres in Los Angeles
08 Feb 1944
1st African American reporter accredited to White House Harry McAlpin
08 Feb 1945
Allied air attack on Goch Kleef Kalkar and Reichswald
08 Feb 1946
Bla Bartks 3rd Concert for pianoorchestra premieres in Philadelphia PA US
08 Feb 1946
Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
08 Feb 1947
Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (1051)
08 Feb 1947
KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
08 Feb 1948
V Winter Olympic Games close at St Moritz Switzerland
08 Feb 1948
Canada wins its 5th Olympic ice hockey gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Games Canadians complete round-robin event undefeated with forward Wally Halder tournament top scorer with 29 points
08 Feb 1948
Canada beats Switzerland 3-0 to regain the Olympic ice hockey title at the St. Moritz Winter Games forward Walter Halder top scores with 29 points in Canadas 5th Olympic title
08 Feb 1949
Hungarian cardinal Jzsef Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
08 Feb 1952
RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day debuts on NBC TV
08 Feb 1953
WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke VA (ABC) begins
08 Feb 1955
Malenkov resigns as USSR premier Bulganin replaces him
08 Feb 1955
The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
08 Feb 1958
Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
08 Feb 1958
KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
08 Feb 1962
KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
08 Feb 1962
In Paris 8 people killed at a protest against independence for the French colony Algeria
08 Feb 1963
1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
08 Feb 1964
Peter Shaffers Royal Hunt of the Sun premieres in London
08 Feb 1964
US Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the Civil Rights Act
08 Feb 1965
Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ kills 84
08 Feb 1965
President Johnson deploys 1st US combat troops to South Vietnam with 3500 marines sent to protect key US airbase near Da Nang
08 Feb 1967
Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
08 Feb 1967
Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
08 Feb 1968
Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
08 Feb 1968
Planet of the Apes premieres in New York City
08 Feb 1969
Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua Mexico
08 Feb 1971
Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY to become WWF wrestling champ
08 Feb 1971
Operation Lam Son 719 begins a limited South Vietnamese incursion into Laos
08 Feb 1971
Nasdaq Composite stock market index debuts with 50 companies and a starting value of 100
08 Feb 1972
Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame
08 Feb 1973
Jean Kerrs Finishing Touches premieres in NYC
08 Feb 1973
Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket v NZ
08 Feb 1973
Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
08 Feb 1974
Good Times (spinoff from Maude) premieres on CBS TV
08 Feb 1974
3 US astronauts return to Earth after a 85 days in the US space station Skylab
08 Feb 1975
Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
08 Feb 1976
Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21130)
08 Feb 1977
Earthquake in San Francisco at 5.0 strongest since 1966
08 Feb 1978
Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
08 Feb 1978
Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
08 Feb 1979
Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time
08 Feb 1981
5 OClock Girl closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 performances
08 Feb 1981
Brigadoon closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
08 Feb 1981
Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
08 Feb 1981
US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
08 Feb 1982
Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to As breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey)
08 Feb 1983
Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
08 Feb 1983
Tina Howes Painting Churches premieres in NYC
08 Feb 1983
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period
08 Feb 1983
prize stallion and Derby winner Shergar kidnapped in Ireland never found Lloyds of London pays 10.6 million insurance
08 Feb 1983
Ariel Sharon resigns from Israeli government after an inquiry shows he was indirectly responsible for the killings of hundreds of people in 1982
08 Feb 1984
XIV Winter Olympic Games open in Sarajevo Yugoslavia
08 Feb 1984
As take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
08 Feb 1984
Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
08 Feb 1985
1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17) Jamaica v Barbados
08 Feb 1985
Bruce Morris Marshall Univ makes a 92 5 basketball shot
08 Feb 1985
Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (738.75)
08 Feb 1985
Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
08 Feb 1986
5 7 Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
08 Feb 1986
1984 Summer Olympics LAPD bomb squad chief Arleigh McCree and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit are killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs
08 Feb 1987
37th NBA All-Star Game Kingdome Seattle WA West beats East 154-149 (OT) MVP Tom Chambers Seattle SuperSonics C
08 Feb 1989
5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
08 Feb 1989
American jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
08 Feb 1989
US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain 145 die
08 Feb 1990
David Hares Racing Demon premieres in London
08 Feb 1990
60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
08 Feb 1992
XVI Winter Olympic Games opens in Albertville France
08 Feb 1993
Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight 134 die
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
08 Feb 1994
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
08 Feb 1994
Stntang Hungarian film directed by Bla Tarr starring Mihly Vg Putyi Horvth is released
08 Feb 1995
6.4 earthquake at Trujillo Colombia (46 killed)
08 Feb 1996
NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Balt but he had to leave the Browns name behind
08 Feb 1996
The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
08 Feb 1996
The massive Internet collaboration 24 Hours in Cyberspace takes place
08 Feb 1997
28th NAACP Image Awards A Time to Kill wins Outstanding Motion Picture
08 Feb 1998
Finland beats Sweden 6-0 at the Aqua Wing Arena in Nagano Japan in the first female ice hockey game played in Olympic history
08 Feb 1998
NHL stops season stops to accommodate the Nagano Winter Olympics returns February 24
08 Feb 2002
IXX Winter Olympic Games open in Salt Lake City Utah United States
08 Feb 1627
Gunpowder is used in a mining operation instead of mechanical tools in present-day Slovakia reportedly the first time explosives had been used in mining
08 Feb 1936
Pandit Jawaharlal succeeds Mahatma Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
08 Feb 1936
German alpine skier Christi Cranz wins the inaugural Olympic womens combined gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games ahead of teammate Kthe Grasegger
08 Feb 1948
Canada beats Switzerland 3-0 to regain the Olympic ice hockey title at the St. Moritz Winter Games forward Walter Halder top scores with 29 points in Canadas 5th Olympic title
08 Feb 1968
Orangeburg Massacre highway patrol officers kill 3 students and injure 27 others demonstrating at South Carolina State University 1st student killing by law enforcement in the US
08 Feb 1978
Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait
08 Feb 1979
Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time
08 Feb 1983
Prize stallion and Derby winner Shergar kidnapped in Ireland never to be found causing Lloyds of London to payout 10.6 million insurance
08 Feb 1989
American jockey Chris Antley begins record 64-day consecutive winning streak ends 1 May and includes 147 winners from 486 mounts
08 Feb 2002
XIX Winter Olympic Games open in Salt Lake City Utah United States
08 Feb 1526
Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast killing large numbers
08 Feb 1575
University Leiden founded and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis
08 Feb 1600
Vatican convicts scholar and friar Giordano Bruno (who believed in an infinite universe ) of heresy and sentences him to be burnt at the stake
08 Feb 1601
Robert Devereux Earl of Essex in rebellion marches his forces into London
08 Feb 1887
Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing Minnesota becomes the 1st US ski club
08 Feb 1894
US Enforcement Act repealed making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
08 Feb 1898
John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming machine in Massachusetts
08 Feb 1905
Cyclone hits Tahiti & adjacent islands killing some 10000 people
08 Feb 1928
1st transatlantic TV image received at Hartsdale NY
08 Feb 1936
1st ski jumping tournament at Red Wing Minnesota
08 Feb 1943
Red Army recaptures Kursk on the eastern front
08 Feb 1960
US Congress opens hearings looking into payola
08 Feb 1974
TV sitcom Good Times spin-off from Maude starring Esther Rolle John Amos and J.J. Walker premieres on CBS TV
08 Feb 1974
American television soap opera The Secret Storm ends a 20 year run on CBS
08 Feb 1982
Los Angeles Dodgers trade 2B Davey Lopes to Oakland As breaking up MLBs longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey)
08 Feb 1600
Vatican convicts scholar and friar Giordano Bruno (who believed in an infinite universe) of heresy and sentences him to be burnt at the stake
08 Feb 1601
Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex leads an unsuccessful revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
08 Feb 1649
Sobornoye Ulozheniye of Russia adopts new code of laws consolidating serfdom (OS 29 Jan) [1]
08 Feb 1735
First opera performance in North American colonies Flora opens in Charleston South Carolina
08 Feb 1982
Los Angeles Dodgers trade 2B Davey Lopes to Oakland As breaking up MLBs longest-playing infield (Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey) after 8 12 seasons
08 Feb 1996
NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns name behind
08 Feb 1600
Vatican convicts scholar and wayward friar Giordano Bruno of heresy and turn him over civil authorities upon his refusal to recant to mete out his punishment of death [1]
08 Feb 1690
French and Native American troops attack and destroy Schenectady settlement in New York Province either killing or capturing its inhabitants revenge for the Lachine massacre
08 Feb 1855
The Smithsonian Institution Building The Castle first opens to the public on the Mall in Washington D.C.
08 Feb 1867
The Ausgleich (compromise) establishes the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
08 Feb 1879
Sandford Fleming first proposes dividing the world into 24 equal time zones and adopting a Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute (adopted 1884)
08 Feb 1896
Georges Feydeaus farce Le Dindon premieres in Paris
08 Feb 1896
Western Conference forms to be first Western college football season later renamed Big 10 Conference
08 Feb 1941
Radio presenter and National Socialist Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch national radio (executed for it in 1946)
08 Feb 1944
German submarine U-762 sunk off Ireland by British forces with the loss of all 50 crewmen
08 Feb 1965
Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ kills 84
08 Feb 1968
Film Planet of the Apes premieres in New York City
08 Feb 1969
Last edition of American magazine Saturday Evening Post
08 Feb 1973
Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for Pakistans 4th wicket v NZ
08 Feb 1973
Senate names seven members to investigate Watergate scandal
08 Feb 1974
Three US astronauts return to Earth after a 85 days in the US space station Skylab
08 Feb 1981
Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewes musical Brigadoon closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
08 Feb 1983
Tina Howes play Painting Churches premieres in NYC
08 Feb 1983
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in one period
08 Feb 1990
David Hares play Racing Demon premieres in London at the National Theatre
08 Feb 1735
First opera performance in North American colonies Flora opens in Charleston South Carolina
08 Feb 1936
First-ever NFL Draft Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago is first pick by Philadelphia Eagles
08 Feb 1963
First transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
08 Feb 1968
Film Planet of the Apes based on Pierre Boulles 1963 novel La Plante des singes premieres in New York City
08 Feb 1978
Proceedings of the US Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time
08 Feb 1986
57 Spud Webb of the Atlanta Hawks wins the NBA Slam Dunk Contest
08 Feb 1989
Five centimeters of snow falls in the outskirts of Los Angeles
08 Feb 1993
Sukhoi-24 crashes into a Tupolev passenger flight killing 134 people
08 Feb 1996
US Congress passes the Communications Decency Act
08 Feb 2005
Leaders of both Palestine and Israel declare a truce in what many hope will be a new era of peace
08 Feb 2008
Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method
08 Feb 2010
747-8 Freighter takes off for its maiden flight from Paine Field Washington
08 Feb 2013
100 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka
08 Feb 2013
16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya Pakistan
08 Feb 2013
29 people are killed and 69 are injured in a series of Iraq bombings
08 Feb 2013
A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths 5300 cancelled flights and loss of power for 900000 people
08 Feb 1968
Film Planet of the Apes based on Pierre Boulles 1963 novel La Plante des Singes premieres in New York City
08 Feb 1975
1800 Unification church couples wed at mass ceremony in Korea
08 Feb 1975
NHL Washiongton Capitols only got one shot in a period againstNew York Islanders
08 Feb 2013
100000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka
08 Feb 2014
15 people are killed & 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina Saudi Arabia