Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 8

Images

Use only ONE image at a time

• 
  NASDAQ at night
• 
  Mary, Queen of Scots
• 
  Queen Mary I of Scotland
• 
  A fragment of the Allende meteorite
• 
  William D. Boyce
• 
  Denis Sassou Nguesso
• 
  Theatrical poster for The Birth of a Nation
• 
  Mickey Mouse's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Prešeren Day in Slovenia	lots of Template:Tl tags
1849 – The Roman Republic was proclaimed, temporarily replacing the government of the Papal States.	refimprove
1879 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, Sandford Fleming (pictured) proposed the idea of standard time zones based on a single universal world time.	Neither the date nor Sandford Fleming are mentioned in the target article
1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.	refimprove section
1887 – The Dawes Act, a law meant to help the assimilation of Native Americans into American society, but which instead had a negative effect, was signed by President Grover Cleveland.	neutrality issues
1904 – The Russo-Japanese War began with a surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese on Russian ships near present-day Lüshunkou, China.	War: refimprove section; Battle: refimprove
1915 – D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation was released, becoming one of the most influential and controversial films in the history of American cinema.	Cast section unref'd. Uncertain date of first showing.
1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, was established.	unreferenced section
1969 – The Allende meteorite, the largest carbonaceous chondrite ever found on Earth, fell near Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.	refimprove
1971 – Trading began on Nasdaq, the world's first electronic stock exchange.	outdated
1979 – Denis Sassou Nguesso was chosen as the new President of the Republic of the Congo after Joachim Yhombi-Opango was forced from power.	copy editing required
John Ruskin |b|1819	external links
Iris Murdoch |d|1999|	Additional sources needed banner

Eligible

• 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots (pictured), was executed at Fotheringhay Castle for her involvement in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, [[Elizabeth I|Template:Nowrap]] of England.
• 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, led a failed rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• 1837 – Richard Mentor Johnson became the only person ever to be elected Vice President of the United States by the Senate.
• 1879 – Angered by a controversial umpiring decision, cricket spectators rioted and attacked the England team during a match in Sydney, Australia.
• 1910 – William D. Boyce (pictured) established the Boy Scouts of America, expanding the Scout Movement into the United States.
• 1924 – Gee Jon became the first person in the United States to be executed by lethal gas.
• 1948 – The closing ceremony of the first Olympics held after World War II was held in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
• 1965 – After taking evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision just after taking off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 84 people on board.
• 1983 – The Irish-bred race horse Shergar was stolen by gunmen, who demanded a £2 million ransom.
• 2010 – A freak storm triggered a series of avalanches that buried more than 3.5 km (2.2 mi) of road near the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing 175 people and trapping more than 2,500 travellers.
• Born/died: | Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid |b|882| Helen of Anjou |d|1314| Daniele Barbaro |b|1514| Gerolamo Emiliani |d|1537| Marina de Escobar |b|1554| Guercino |b|1591| Jules Verne |b|1828| Kate Chopin |b|1850| Franz Marc |b|1880| Peter Kropotkin |d|1921| Neila Sathyalingam|b|1938| Walther Bothe |d|1957| Mauricio Macri |b|1959| Ernest Titterton |d|1990| Emman Atienza |b|2006|

February 8: Feast day of Saint Josephine Bakhita (Catholicism); Military Foundation Day in North Korea (1948) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 421 – Honorius declared Constantius III to be his co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1250 – Seventh Crusade: The Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt defeated and captured King Louis IX of France at the Battle of Fariskur.
• 1575 – William of Orange founded Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands.
• 1960 – The official groundbreaking of the Walk of Fame took place in Hollywood, Los Angeles, in California.
• 1968 – Law enforcement officers in Orangeburg, South Carolina (pictured), fired into a crowd of college students who were protesting segregation, killing three and injuring twenty-seven others.