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
- 1250 –Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
- 1575 –Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
- 1587 –Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
- 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.
- 1879 –Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
- 1924 –Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
- 1945 –World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
- 1952 –Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
- 1955 –The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1971 –South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
- 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.
- 1996 –The massive Internet collaboration “24 Hours in Cyberspace” takes place.
- 2001 –Disney California Adventure Park opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- 2016 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
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