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.
  • 1250 –
    Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
  • 1587 –
    Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
  • 1726 –
    The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
  • 1807 –
    Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
  • 1837 –
    Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
  • 1856 –
    Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
  • 1902 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
  • 1910 –
    The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
  • 1922 –
    President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
  • 1924 –
    Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • 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.
  • 1949 –
    Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
  • 1965 –
    After taking evasive maneuvers to avoid a mid-air collision immediately after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
  • 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.
  • 1971 –
    The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
  • 1974 –
    After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
  • 1979 –
    Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
  • 1989 –
    An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in the Azores, killing 144.
  • 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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