February 08
Tuesday 08, 2005:
Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.
Friday 08, 2002:
Opening ceremony of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
Thursday 08, 2001:
Disney's California Adventure, the Disneyland Resort's second park in its 46-year history, opens.
Thursday 08, 1996:
The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
Monday 08, 1993:
General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settled the lawsuit the next day.
Wednesday 08, 1989:
An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal killing 144.
Friday 08, 1985:
After 6-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air.
Wednesday 08, 1984:
1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo.
Tuesday 08, 1983:
Irish racehorse Shergar was kidnapped in County Kildare. The fate of the horse is still unknown.
Thursday 08, 1979:
Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the People?s Republic of the Congo for the first time.
Wednesday 08, 1978:
Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcasted on radio for the first time.
Friday 08, 1974:
Military coup in Upper Volta.
Monday 08, 1971:
A new stock market index called the Nasdaq debuts.
Saturday 08, 1969:
The last weekly issue of the Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands.
Thursday 08, 1968:
American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the deaths of three college students. (Orangeburg Massacre)
Friday 08, 1963:
Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
Monday 08, 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".
Tuesday 08, 1949:
Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary sentenced for treason.
Monday 08, 1943:
United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
Saturday 08, 1936:
Jay Berwanger becomes the first person to be selected by a National Football League draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Friday 08, 1924:
Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
Wednesday 08, 1922:
President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
Friday 08, 1918:
The Stars and Stripes newspaper publishes for the first time.
Monday 08, 1915:
D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
Tuesday 08, 1910:
The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
Monday 08, 1904:
Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
Thursday 08, 1900:
British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
Tuesday 08, 1887:
The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
Friday 08, 1867:
The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary,
Friday 08, 1861:
American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed. Jefferson Davis is selected as first president.
Thursday 08, 1855:
The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
Wednesday 08, 1837:
Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
Sunday 08, 1807:
Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
Sunday 08, 1693:
The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter.
Friday 08, 1692:
A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony declares that three teenaged girls are under domination of Satan, leading to the Salem witch trials.
Tuesday 08, 1622:
King James I of England disbands the English Parliament
Thursday 08, 1601:
revolt is quickly crushed
Sunday 08, 1587:
Mary, Queen of Scots is executed.
Tuesday 08, 1555:
Laurence Saunders is led barefoot to his execution and burned at the stake.
Monday 08, 421:
Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
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