Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 8:
1921 – Shrovetide River Football.
1949 – In communist-ruled Hungary, Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment for anti-state activities.
1986 – Fatal Hinton head-on train collision in Canada.
2003 – India expelled Pakistan’s acting high commissioner Jalil Abbas Jilani and four other mission staff, accusing Jilani of funding separatists in Indian Kashmir.
2005 – Britain’s yachtswoman Ellen MacArther breaks record for sailing solo around the world.
2006 – Scientists reported a fossil dug up in a remote Chinese desert lived 160 million years ago, more than 90 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex, clearly the earliest example yet found of a Tyrannosaur.
2007 – Museum unveils rare copy of Emancipation Proclamation, a document signed in 1863 by Lincoln declaring the end of slavery in the United States.
2013 – Blizzard disrupts transport, electricity in U.S., Canada.
2014 – Hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 people.
2017 – Dual U.S.-Somali citizen Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed sworn-in as Somalia’s new president.
2018 – Taiwan president visits rescue zone following quake.
(Reuters)
