Today in History : February 8
1587 : Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded in Fotheringhay Castle for her alleged part in the conspiracy to usurp Elizabeth I.
1807 : At Eylau, Napoleon‘s Marshal Pierre Agureau attacks Russian forces in a heavy snowstorm.
1861 : Delegates from seceded states adopt a provisional Confederate Constitution.
1862 : Union troops under Gen. Ambrose Burnside defeat a Confederate defense force at the Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C.
1865 : Confederate raider William Quantrill and men attack a group of Federal wagons at New Market, Kentucky.
1887 : Congress passes the Dawes Act, which gives citizenship to Indians living apart from their tribe.
1900 : British General Buller is beaten at Ladysmith, South Africa as the British flee over the Tugela River.
1904 : In a surprise attack at Port Arthur, Korea, the Japanese disable seven Russian warships.
1910 : The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.
1924 : The gas chamber is used for the first time to execute a murderer.
1942 : The Japanese land on Singapore.
1943 : British General Orde Wingate leads a guerrilla force of “Chindits” against the Japanese in Burma.
1952 : Elizabeth becomes Queen of England after her father, King George VI, dies.
1962 : The U.S. Defense Department reports the creation of the Military Assistance Command in South Vietnam.
1965 : South Vietnamese bomb the North Vietnamese communications center at Vinh Linh.
1971 : South Vietnamese ground forces, backed by American air power, begin Operation Lam Son 719, a 17,000 man incursion into Laos that ends three weeks later in a disaster.
1990 : CBS television temporarily suspends Andy Rooney for his anti-gay and ant-black remarks in a magazine interview.
Born on February 8
412 : St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople
1820 : William T. Sherman, Union general in the American Civil War.
1828 : Jules Verne, French novelist, one of the first writers of science fiction (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea).
1834 : Dmitri Ivanovich Medeleyev, Russian chemist, developed the periodic table of elements.
1851 : Kate (O’Flaherty ) Chopin, novelist, short story writer (The Awakening).
1906 : Chester F. Carlson, physicist, inventor of xerography, the electrostatic dry-copy process.
1906 : Henry Roth, writer (Call it Sleep).
1911 : Elizabeth Bishop, poet.
1926 : Neal Cassaday, writer, counterculture proponent.
1931 : James Dean, film actor and 1950s teenage icon (Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, Giant).
1940 : Ted Koppel, television journalist.
1587 : Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded in Fotheringhay Castle for her alleged part in the conspiracy to usurp Elizabeth I.
1807 : At Eylau, Napoleon‘s Marshal Pierre Agureau attacks Russian forces in a heavy snowstorm.
1861 : Delegates from seceded states adopt a provisional Confederate Constitution.
1862 : Union troops under Gen. Ambrose Burnside defeat a Confederate defense force at the Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C.
1865 : Confederate raider William Quantrill and men attack a group of Federal wagons at New Market, Kentucky.
1887 : Congress passes the Dawes Act, which gives citizenship to Indians living apart from their tribe.
1900 : British General Buller is beaten at Ladysmith, South Africa as the British flee over the Tugela River.
1904 : In a surprise attack at Port Arthur, Korea, the Japanese disable seven Russian warships.
1910 : The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.
1924 : The gas chamber is used for the first time to execute a murderer.
1942 : The Japanese land on Singapore.
1943 : British General Orde Wingate leads a guerrilla force of “Chindits” against the Japanese in Burma.
1952 : Elizabeth becomes Queen of England after her father, King George VI, dies.
1962 : The U.S. Defense Department reports the creation of the Military Assistance Command in South Vietnam.
1965 : South Vietnamese bomb the North Vietnamese communications center at Vinh Linh.
1971 : South Vietnamese ground forces, backed by American air power, begin Operation Lam Son 719, a 17,000 man incursion into Laos that ends three weeks later in a disaster.
1990 : CBS television temporarily suspends Andy Rooney for his anti-gay and ant-black remarks in a magazine interview.
Born on February 8
412 : St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople
1820 : William T. Sherman, Union general in the American Civil War.
1828 : Jules Verne, French novelist, one of the first writers of science fiction (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea).
1834 : Dmitri Ivanovich Medeleyev, Russian chemist, developed the periodic table of elements.
1851 : Kate (O’Flaherty ) Chopin, novelist, short story writer (The Awakening).
1906 : Chester F. Carlson, physicist, inventor of xerography, the electrostatic dry-copy process.
1906 : Henry Roth, writer (Call it Sleep).
1911 : Elizabeth Bishop, poet.
1926 : Neal Cassaday, writer, counterculture proponent.
1931 : James Dean, film actor and 1950s teenage icon (Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, Giant).
1940 : Ted Koppel, television journalist.
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