About February 8
February 8, 2024 is the 39th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 327 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 2 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.
- 1693 –The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
- 1807 –Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
- 1817 –Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
- 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.
- 1910 –The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
- 1924 –Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1952 –Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1969 –Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
- 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.
- 2035 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
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