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
- 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.
- 1915 –D.W. Griffith’s controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
- 1921 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- 1942 –World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
- 1945 –World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
- 1949 –Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
- 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”.
- 1960 –The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 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.
- 1971 –The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
- 1978 –Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
- 1993 –General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
- 2001 –Disney California Adventure Park opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
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