SomeFacts | February 8

On this day - February 8

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 ...

1347 — The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing ...

1587 — Mary, Queen of Scots is executed on suspicion of having been ...

1601 — Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, unsuccessfully rebels ...

1693 — The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, ...

1807 — Napoleon defeats the coalition forces of Russian General ...

1817 — An army led by Grand Marshal Las Heras crosses the Andes to ...

1837 — Richard Johnson becomes the first and only Vice President of ...

1865 — Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the ...

1879 — England's cricket team, led by Lord Harris, is attacked ...

1879 — Sandford Fleming first proposes the adoption of Universal ...

1885 — The first Japanese immigrants arrive in Hawaii.

1887 — The Dawes Act is enacted, authorizing the U.S. President to ...

1904 — The Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by ...

1904 — Japanese forces launch a surprise attack against ...

1910 — The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.

1915 — D. W. Griffith's controversial landmark film The Birth of ...

1924 — The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber ...

1937 — Spanish Civil War: Republican forces establish the ...

1942 — World War II: Japan invades Singapore.

1945 — World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet ...

1945 — World War II: British and Canadian forces commence Operation ...

1946 — The People's Republic of Korea is dissolved in the North ...

1950 — The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.

1960 — The Hollywood Walk of Fame is founded.

1960 — Queen Elizabeth II issues an Order-in-Council, proclaiming the ...

1962 — Nine protestors are killed at Charonne station, Paris, by ...

1963 — The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Karim Qasim is ...

1965 — Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean ...

1968 — American civil rights movement: An attack on Black students ...

1971 — South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos ...

1971 — The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.

1974 — The crew of Skylab 4, the last mission to visit the American ...

1983 — Irish race horse Shergar is stolen and allegedly killed by ...

1983 — A dust storm hits Melbourne, resulting in the worst drought on ...

1986 — Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train ...

1989 — Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while ...

1993 — An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 and an Iranian Air Force ...

2010 — Over 2 miles (3.2 km) of road are buried after a storm in the ...

2013 — A blizzard kills at least 18 and leaves hundreds of thousands ...

2014 — A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia, kills 15 Egyptian ...

2020 — A soldier opens fire in a military camp and a shopping center ...

2023 — Two children are killed and six others are injured when a bus ...