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Events
421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
1575 – Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1596 – Luis de Carabajal the younger is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico City.
1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed.
1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1807 – After two days of bitter fighting, the Russians under Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon.
1817 – Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1855 – The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 – Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1865 – 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.)
1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1912 – The first eastbound transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, FL.
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1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1943 – American troops secured the Pacific Island of Guadalcanal.
1945 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
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.
1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
1955 – The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
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".
1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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.
1963 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 – The First full Color Television program in the World, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena.
1965 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1965 – The Supremes release their single "Stop In the Name of Love.”
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.
1969 – Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 – South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1974 – Military coup in Upper Volta.
1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio 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 F.C.
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.
1986 – Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
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.
1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 – The massive Internet collaboration 24 Hours in Cyberspace takes place.
2005 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.
2010 – A freak storm in the Hindu Kush 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.
2013 – A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
2014 – A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
John de la Mata, Confessor. Double.
Contemporary Western
Cuthmann of Steyning
Gerolamo Emiliani
Josephine Bakhita
Juventius of Pavia
Meingold of Huy
Stephen of Muret
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Saints
Prophet Zechariah, of the Twelve Minor Prophets (520 BC)
Martyr Conitus of Alexandria (249)
Virgin-martyrs Martha and Mary, sisters, and the monk Lukarion,
martyrs by crucifixion
Martyrs Nicephorus and Stephen
Martyr Pergetos
Great martyr Theodore Stratelates "the General" of Heraclea (319)
Saint Agathangelus, Bishop of Damascus (c. 325)
Venerable ascetics Philadelphus and Polycarp, monastics, reposed in peace
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Juventius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (1st c.)
Martyrs Paul, Lucius and Cyriacus, in Rome
Saints Jacut and Guethenoc, disciples of St Budoc, they were driven
from Britain to Brittany (5th c.)
Saint Honoratus of Milan, Bishop of Milan and Confessor (570)
Saint Kewe (Kigwe, Ciwa), a saint venerated in Gwent in Wales
Saint Oncho (Onchuo), a pilgrim, poet, and guardian of holy relics
and the Celtic tradition (c. 600)
Saint Nicetius of Besançon (Nizier), Bishop of Besançon in France
and a friend of St Columbanus of Luxeuil (611)
Saint Paulus of Verdun, Bishop of Verdun, renowned for miracles (c. 649)
Saint Ælfflæd of Whitby (Elfleda), Abbess of Whitby Abbey (714)
Saint Cuthmann of Steyning, a confessor who lived a holy life as a shepherd
near Steyning in Sussex in England (8th c.)
Saint Mlada (Mileda, Mary), a Benedictine abbess and founder of the first
monastery in Bohemia (994)
Saint Meingold of Huy, a holy man who lived in Huy on the Meuse
and was venerated in Belgium (10th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Sabbas II, Archbishop of Serbia (1271)
Saints John and Basil, of the Kiev Caves (14th c.)
Saint Makarios, Bishop of Paphos on Cyprus (1688)
Saint Lyubov of Ryazan, Fool-for-Christ (1921)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs Simeon Kulgavets, Andrew Dobrinin, Sergius,
and Peter, Priests (1938)
New Hieromartyr Alexander Abissov, Priest (1942)
Other commemorations
Repose of Schema-Abbot Theodore of Valaam Monastery (1937)Traditional Western
John de la Mata, Confessor. Double.
Contemporary Western
Cuthmann of Steyning
Gerolamo Emiliani
Josephine Bakhita
Juventius of Pavia
Meingold of Huy
Stephen of Muret
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Saints
Prophet Zechariah, of the Twelve Minor Prophets (520 BC)
Martyr Conitus of Alexandria (249)
Virgin-martyrs Martha and Mary, sisters, and the monk Lukarion,
martyrs by crucifixion
Martyrs Nicephorus and Stephen
Martyr Pergetos
Great martyr Theodore Stratelates "the General" of Heraclea (319)
Saint Agathangelus, Bishop of Damascus (c. 325)
Venerable ascetics Philadelphus and Polycarp, monastics, reposed in peace
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Juventius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (1st c.)
Martyrs Paul, Lucius and Cyriacus, in Rome
Saints Jacut and Guethenoc, disciples of St Budoc, they were driven
from Britain to Brittany (5th c.)
Saint Honoratus of Milan, Bishop of Milan and Confessor (570)
Saint Kewe (Kigwe, Ciwa), a saint venerated in Gwent in Wales
Saint Oncho (Onchuo), a pilgrim, poet, and guardian of holy relics
and the Celtic tradition (c. 600)
Saint Nicetius of Besançon (Nizier), Bishop of Besançon in France
and a friend of St Columbanus of Luxeuil (611)
Saint Paulus of Verdun, Bishop of Verdun, renowned for miracles (c. 649)
Saint Ælfflæd of Whitby (Elfleda), Abbess of Whitby Abbey (714)
Saint Cuthmann of Steyning, a confessor who lived a holy life as a shepherd
near Steyning in Sussex in England (8th c.)
Saint Mlada (Mileda, Mary), a Benedictine abbess and founder of the first
monastery in Bohemia (994)
Saint Meingold of Huy, a holy man who lived in Huy on the Meuse
and was venerated in Belgium (10th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Sabbas II, Archbishop of Serbia (1271)
Saints John and Basil, of the Kiev Caves (14th c.)
Saint Makarios, Bishop of Paphos on Cyprus (1688)
Saint Lyubov of Ryazan, Fool-for-Christ (1921)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs Simeon Kulgavets, Andrew Dobrinin, Sergius,
and Peter, Priests (1938)
New Hieromartyr Alexander Abissov, Priest (1942)
Other commemorations
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