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.
- 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.
- 1817 –Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1948 –The formal creation of the Korean People’s Army of North Korea is announced.
- 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”.
- 1962 –Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
- 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 –The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
- 1974 –Military coup in Upper Volta.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1996 –The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
- 2035 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
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