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What happend on 8. February in History
In our data base we found 327 events happened on 8. February:
• 120: Vettius Valens, Greek astrologer (d. 175) [category: Births]
• 412: Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 485) [category: Births]
• 421: Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. [category: Events]
• 1191: Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246) [category: Births]
• 1204: Alexius IV Angelus, deposed Eastern Roman Emperor (b. c. 1182) [category: Deaths]
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• 1238: The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. [category: Events]
• 1250: Robert I of Artois, French Crusader (b. 1216) [category: Deaths]
• 1250: Sir William II Longespée, English Crusader (b. 1212) [category: Deaths]
• 1250: Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah. [category: Events]
• 1265: Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217) [category: Deaths]
• 1291: King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357) [category: Births]
• 1296: King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257) [category: Deaths]
• 1347: The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos. [category: Events]
• 1405: Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453) [category: Births]
• 1487: Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550) [category: Births]
• 1552: Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630) [category: Births]
• 1572: Cho Shik, Korean Joseon Dynastys Neo-Confucian scholar and politicians (b. 1501) [category: Deaths]
• 1575: Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis. [category: Events]
• 1577: Robert Burton, English cleric and writer (d. 1640) [category: Births]
• 1586: Jacob Praetorius, German composer (d. 1651) [category: Births]
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• 1587: Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542) [category: Deaths]
• 1587: Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. [category: Events]
• 1599: Robert Rollock, Scottish educator (b. 1555) [category: Deaths]
• 1601: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed. [category: Events]
• 1612: Samuel Butler, English poet (d. 1680) [category: Births]
• 1623: Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546) [category: Deaths]
• 1649: Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728) [category: Births]
• 1677: Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756) [category: Births]
• 1685: Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770) [category: Births]
• 1693: The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II. [category: Events]
• 1696: Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666) [category: Deaths]
• 1700: Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782) [category: Births]
• 1708: Václav Jan Kopřiva, Bohemian composer and organist (d. 1789) [category: Births]
• 1709: Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658) [category: Deaths]
• 1720: Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750) [category: Births]
• 1725: Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672) [category: Deaths]
• 1726: The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia. [category: Events]
• 1741: André Grétry composer from the Bishopric of Liège (present day Belgium) (d. 1813) [category: Births]
• 1749: Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682) [category: Deaths]
• 1750: Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685) [category: Deaths]
• 1762: Emperor Gia Long the founded the Nguyễn Dynasty, the last of the Vietnamese dynasties (d. 1820) [category: Births]
• 1764: Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer (d. 1846) [category: Births]
• 1768: George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695) [category: Deaths]
• 1772: Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719) [category: Deaths]
• 1792: Queen Caroline Augusta of Bavaria of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1798: Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Russian Grand Duke (d. 1849) [category: Births]
• 1804: Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834) [category: Births]
• 1807: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1807: Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Bennigsen. [category: Events]
• 1817: Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain. [category: Events]
• 1819: John Ruskin, English author (d. 1900) [category: Births]
• 1820: William Tecumseh Sherman, American Union general (d. 1891) [category: Births]
• 1822: Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1825: Henry Walter Bates, English naturalist and explorer (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1828: Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905) [category: Births]
• 1829: Vital-Justin Grandin, Canadian French-born Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1902) [category: Births]
• 1834: Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907) [category: Births]
• 1837: Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate. [category: Events]
• 1847: Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902) [category: Births]
• 1847: Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician (b. 1781) [category: Deaths]
• 1849: France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (b. 1800) [category: Deaths]
• 1849: François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (b. 1781) [category: Deaths]
• 1850: Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1855: The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon. [category: Events]
• 1856: Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773) [category: Deaths]
• 1856: Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia. [category: Events]
• 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.) [category: Events]
• 1866: Moses Gomberg, Russian-born American chemist (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1878: Martin Buber, Austrian-born Israeli philosopher (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1879: Albert Taillandier, French racing cyclist (death date unknown) [category: Births]
• 1879: Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute. [category: Events]
• 1879: The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney. [category: Events]
• 1880: Franz Marc, German painter (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1880: Viktor Schwanneke, German stage director, stage and film actor (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1882: Thomas Etholen Selfridge, American military officer and airplane crash victim (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1883: Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1884: Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1885: The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii. [category: Events]
• 1886: Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1887: The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. [category: Events]
• 1888: Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1890: Claro M. Recto, Filipino nationalist (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1893: Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1894: King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1894: Ludwig Marcuse, German author and philosopher (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1900: Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1902: Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1903: Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1903: Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1904: Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War. [category: Events]
• 1906: Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1907: Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1910: Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. [category: Events]
• 1911: Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1913: Betty Field, American actress (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1914: Bill Finger, American comic book writer (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1915: Georges Guétary, French singer and actor (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1915: François Langelier, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1838) [category: Deaths]
• 1915: D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. [category: Events]
• 1918: Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1920: Herbert Siegert, German football manager [category: Births]
• 1921: Barnett Danson, Canadian politician (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1921: Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1921: Barrett Wendell, American academic and author (b. 1855) [category: Deaths]
• 1921: George Formby, Sr., English entertainer (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1921: Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842) [category: Deaths]
• 1922: Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1922: President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House. [category: Events]
• 1924: Gee Jon, First man in U.S. to be executed by lethal gas. (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1924: Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada. [category: Events]
• 1925: Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1926: Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1928: Gene Lees, Canadian biographer and lyricist (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1929: Claude Rich, French actor [category: Births]
• 1930: Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1930: James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1931: James Dean, American actor (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1932: Cliff Allison, British racing driver (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1932: Jean Saunders née Jean Innes, English writer [category: Births]
• 1932: John Williams, American composer and conductor [category: Births]
• 1932: Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, New York City gangster from County Donegal in Ireland (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano [category: Births]
• 1933: Jack Larson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1935: Council Cargle, American actor (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1936: Larry Verne, American singer [category: Births]
• 1936: Charles Curtis, 1st American-Indian Vice-President of the USA (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Joe Raposo, American composer (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1937: Manfred Krug, German actor [category: Births]
• 1939: José Maria Sison, Filipino communist [category: Births]
• 1939: Ken Iman, American football player (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1940: Ted Koppel, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1941: Jagjit Singh, Indian ghazal singer, songwriter and musician (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1941: Nick Nolte, American actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Tom Rush, American singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1942: Bob Munden, American shooting competitor [category: Births]
• 1942: Robert Klein, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1942: Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (Bruce & Terry) (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: Japan invades Singapore. [category: Events]
• 1943: Creed Bratton, American actor and musician (The Grass Roots) [category: Births]
• 1943: Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic [category: Births]
• 1944: Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor [category: Births]
• 1944: Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian documentary photographer [category: Births]
• 1945: Italo Santelli, Italian fencer (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1948: Dan Seals, American singer (England Dan and John Ford Coley)(d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1948: Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1948: Ron Tyson, American singer (The Temptations) [category: Births]
• 1948: The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced. [category: Events]
• 1949: Brooke Adams, American actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Niels Arestrup, French actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason. [category: Events]
• 1950: Cristina Ferrare, American former supermodel and actress [category: Births]
• 1950: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. [category: Events]
• 1951: Z'EV, American text/sound artist [category: Births]
• 1952: Daisuke Gōri, Japanese voice actor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1952: Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1953: Mary Steenburgen, American actress [category: Births]
• 1953: Roger Clavet, Québécois politician [category: Births]
• 1955: John Grisham, American writer [category: Births]
• 1955: Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer [category: Births]
• 1955: The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants. [category: Events]
• 1956: Dave Meros, American bassist (Spock's Beard) [category: Births]
• 1956: Kostas Triantafyllopoulos, Greek actor [category: Births]
• 1956: Marques Johnson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1956: Connie Mack, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Walther Bothe, German physicist and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1959: Damir Maričić, Croatian footballer [category: Births]
• 1959: Daniel Soubeyran, French rower (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Benigno Aquino III, Philippine President [category: Births]
• 1960: Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1960: Stuart Hamm, American bassist (Joe Satriani, Steve Vai) [category: Births]
• 1960: Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 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". [category: Events]
• 1960: The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [category: Events]
• 1961: Bruce Timm, American character designer, animator and producer [category: Births]
• 1961: Vince Neil, American singer (Mötley Crüe) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1963: Joshua Kadison, American pianist and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1963: Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1963: George Dolenz, American actor, father of Micky Dolenz (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party. [category: Events]
• 1963: Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration. [category: Events]
• 1964: Robert Nebřenský, Czech actor and musician [category: Births]
• 1964: Trinny Woodall, British fashion guru [category: Births]
• 1964: Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Dicky Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Big Four) [category: Births]
• 1965: Wayne Estes, American basketball player (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1966: Bruno Labbadia, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1966: Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer [category: Births]
• 1966: Kirk Muller, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1966: Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger, German author [category: Births]
• 1968: Claudette Pace, Maltese singer [category: Births]
• 1968: Gary Coleman, American actor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1968: Nasos Thanopoulos, Greek businessman [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1969: Mary McCormack, American actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Shiva Rose, American actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico. [category: Events]
• 1970: Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1970: John Filan, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Andre El Haddad, Lebannon football referee [category: Births]
• 1971: Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier [category: Births]
• 1971: Mika Karppinen, Finnish drummer (HIM) [category: Births]
• 1971: South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration. [category: Events]
• 1971: The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1972: Paul Wight, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1972: Markos Vamvakaris, Greek musician and songwriter (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Keith McDonald, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk) [category: Births]
• 1974: Kimbo Slice, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1974: Seth Green, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Ulises de la Cruz, Ecuadorian footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth. [category: Events]
• 1974: Military coup in Upper Volta. [category: Events]
• 1975: Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Abi Titmuss, English glamour model [category: Births]
• 1976: Adam Piatt, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer [category: Births]
• 1976: Nicolas Vouilloz, French rally driver [category: Births]
• 1977: Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Bridgette Kerkove, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Mathieu Turcotte, Canadian short-track speed skater [category: Births]
• 1977: Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist [category: Births]
• 1977: Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1979: Aaron Cook, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Josh Keaton, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1979: Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Cameron Muncey, Australian guitarist (Jet) [category: Births]
• 1980: Ralf Little, English actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1980: Stephen Wright, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1982: Danny Tamberelli, American actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Erik Rhodes, American porn actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1982: Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1982: John Hay Whitney, American financier (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1983: Jermaine Anderson, Canadian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Jim Verraros, American singer and actor [category: Births]
• 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 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night. [category: Events]
• 1984: Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Canadian alpine skier [category: Births]
• 1984: Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Ben Anderson, New Zealand basketball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Jeremy Davis, American bassist (Paramore) [category: Births]
• 1985: Petra Cetkovská, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1985: Thomas Gardner, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1985: William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: The Hinton train collision kills 23 people when a Via Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car freight train. [category: Events]
• 1987: Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1987: Francisco Javier García, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer [category: Births]
• 1988: Rucha Hasabnis, Indian television actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Ryan Pinkston, American actor [category: Births]
• 1988: Daisy Turner, American storyteller, centarian, and daughter of ex-slave (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Courtney Vandersloot, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1989: Dani Harmer, English actress [category: Births]
• 1989: JaJuan Johnson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1989: Zac Guildford, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1989: An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Pico Alto mountain in the Santa Maria Island in the Azores, killing 144. [category: Events]
• 1990: Bethany Hamilton, American surfer and shark attack survivor [category: Births]
• 1990: Tran Thuy Dzung, Miss Vietnam 2008 [category: Births]
• 1990: Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Aristides Soiledis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Roberto Soriano, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Carl Jenkinson, English/Finnish footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1994: Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian artist and singer [category: Births]
• 1994: Raymond Scott, American composer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Del Ennis, American baseball player (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act. [category: Events]
• 1996: The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place. [category: Events]
• 1997: Kathryn Newton, American actress [category: Births]
• 1997: Robert Ridgely American actor (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Šarlote Lēnmane, Latvian singer [category: Births]
• 1998: Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author, Nobel laureate (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Rocke Robertson, Canadian physician, Vice-Chancellor of McGill University (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Denise Leblanc-Bantey, Canadian politician (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Bob Collins, American radio broadcaster (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Anna Nicole Smith, American model, actress, and entertainer (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American professor and reincarnation researcher (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Frank J. Dixon, American immunologist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (b. 1982) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: John Murtha, American politician (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 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 travelers. [category: Events]
• 2011: Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentinean musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, and Invisible)(b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cuthmann of Steyning [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Feast of Orthodoxy can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated 42 days before Easter. (Orthodoxy) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: February 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Jerome Emiliani [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Josephine Bakhita [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Juventius of Pavia [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Meingold of Huy [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Nirvana Day (Mahayana Buddhism) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Prešeren Day (Slovenia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Stephen of Muret [category: Holidays and observances]