February 8 in history
Events on February 8
Notable events that happened on February 8 in past years.
- 2023
Two children are killed and six others are injured when a bus crashes into a daycare centre in Laval, Quebec, Canada. The driver is arrested and charged with homicide and dangerous driving.
Wikipedia article: Laval daycare bus crash - 2013
A blizzard kills at least 18 and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
Wikipedia article: February 2013 North American blizzard - 1989
Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores, killing all 144 passengers on board.
Wikipedia article: Independent Air Flight 1851 - 1974
The crew of Skylab 4, the last mission to visit the American space station Skylab, returns to Earth after 84 days in space.
Wikipedia article: Skylab 4 - 1968
American civil rights movement: An attack on Black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation leaves three dead and 28 injured in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Wikipedia article: Civil rights movement - 1962
Nine protestors are killed at Charonne station, Paris, by French police under the command of ex-Vichy official and Parisian Prefect of Police Maurice Papon.
Wikipedia article: Charonne subway massacre - 1946
The People's Republic of Korea is dissolved in the North and replaced by the communist-controlled Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.
Wikipedia article: People's Republic of Korea - 1942
World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
Wikipedia article: World War II - 1910
The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
Wikipedia article: Scouting America - 1887
The Dawes Act is enacted, authorizing the U.S. President to divide Native American tribal land into individual allotments.
Wikipedia article: Dawes Act - 1879
England's cricket team, led by Lord Harris, is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
Wikipedia article: England cricket team - 1837
Richard Johnson becomes the first and only Vice President of the United States chosen by the Senate.
Wikipedia article: Richard Mentor Johnson - 1693
The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the second-oldest institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
Wikipedia article: College of William & Mary - 1347
The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
- 421
Constantius III becomes co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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