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
- 421 –Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 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.
- 1855 –The Devil’s Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
- 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 –The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
- 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.
- 1949 –Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
- 1952 –Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
- 1959 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 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”.
- 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 –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.
- 1983 –The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia’s second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 m deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
- 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.
- 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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