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
- 421 –Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1250 –Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
- 1726 –The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
- 1817 –Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1963 –The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
- 1965 –After taking evasive maneuvers to avoid a mid-air collision immediately after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
- 1971 –The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
- 1974 –After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
- 1979 –Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
- 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.
- 1989 –An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in the Azores, killing 144.
- 1996 –The massive Internet collaboration “24 Hours in Cyberspace” takes place.
- 2001 –Disney California Adventure Park opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
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