About February 8
February 8, 2022 is the 39th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 348 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 8
- 421 –Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1856 –Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
- 1865 –In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
- 1879 –Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
- 1904 –Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1915 –D.W. Griffith’s controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
- 1922 –President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
- 1945 –World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
- 1948 –The formal creation of the Korean People’s Army of North Korea is announced.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1974 –Military coup in Upper Volta.
- 1978 –Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2035 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
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