About February 8
February 8, 2025 is the 39th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 374 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 8
- 1238 –The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
- 1575 –Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
- 1693 –The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
- 1726 –The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
- 1807 –Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
- 1817 –Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
- 1879 –The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
- 1887 –The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
- 1902 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- 1904 –Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1949 –Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
- 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”.
- 1963 –The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
- 1963 –Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
- 1974 –After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
- 1974 –Military coup in Upper Volta.
- 1978 –Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
- 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 FC.
- 1996 –The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
- 2010 –A freak storm in the Hindukush 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 travellers.
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