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Historical Events
on February 8th
- Lead Story
- Americans secure Guadalcanal,1943
- American Revolution
- Former POW Timothy Bigelow is named colonel,1777
- Automotive
- Jaguar founder dies,1985
- Civil War
- Battle of Roanoke Island,1862
- Cold War
- Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary sentenced,1949
- Crime
- Irish race horse stolen,1983
- Disaster
- New England digs out after blizzard,1978
- General Interest
- Mary Queen of Scots beheaded,1587
- Peter the Great dies,1725
- The Russo-Japanese War begins,1904
- Birth of a Nation opens,1915
- First execution by lethal gas,1924
- Hollywood
- Jack Nicholson smashes windshield in episode of road rage,1994
- Literary
- Elizabeth Bishop is born,1911
- Music
- Del Shannon dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound,1990
- Old West
- Cleveland signs the Dawes Severalty Act,1887
- Presidential
- Cleveland signs devastating Dawes Act into law,1887
- Sports
- Spud Webb wins dunk contest,1986
- Vietnam War
- MACV established,1962
- Operation Lam Son 719 begins,1971
- World War I
- U.S. Army resumes publication of Stars and Stripes,1918
- World War II
- Britain's Indian Brigade begins guerrilla operations in Burma,1943
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