What events happened on February 8?
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – Boy Scout Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Heart Giving Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Air Force Day.
🇵🇱 Poland – Prison Service Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Science Day.
🇸🇮 Slovenia – Prešeren Day (Slovenian Culture Day).
🇱🇺 Luxembourg – Engineers’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 421 – Constantius III becomes co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
– 1250 – 7th Crusade: Battle near Al-Mansur.
– 1575 – University founded in Leiden (Netherlands).
– 1587 – Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, claimant to the English throne, is beheaded.
– 1692 – Salem witch trials began.
– 1724 – By decree of Peter I, the Petersburg Academy of Sciences was established.
– 1726 – Catherine I created a Privy Council.
– 1815 – A declaration was adopted at the Congress of Vienna prohibiting the slave trade.
– 1816 – In Scotland, for the first time in the world, a dog was involved in a police operation.
– 1837 – A duel took place between Pushkin and Georges Dantes.
– 1838 – Samuel Morse first demonstrated the operation of the electromagnetic telegraph system to the public.
– 1879 – Stanford Fleming proposed the introduction of a Time Zone on Earth.
– 1881 – The Boers defeated the British at the Battle of Ingogo.
– 1887 – The US Congress approved the David Act.
– 1904 – The Russo-Japanese War begins.
– 1904 – The Boy Scouts organization is established in the United States.
– 1918 – Tbilisi State University is opened.
– 1919 – The decree “On the introduction of a time calculation system according to the International System” is issued in Russia.
– 1929 – Kamov calls his flying machine “helicopter”.
– 1948 – The Korean People’s Army is officially formed.
– 1963 – Military coup in Iraq: Baath Party rule is established.
– 1971 – The first transactions are made on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
– 1984 – The XIV Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia).
– 1992 – The XVI Winter Olympics open in Albertville, France.
– 2002 – The XIX Winter Olympic Games opened in Salt Lake City (USA).
– 2005 – The Absheron National Park opened in Azerbaijan.
