World.- In the ephemeris of this February 8 several important ones that marked the history of humanity stand out, for example: 1587, the Queen of Scots, Mary I, called Mary Stuart, is beheaded on the scaffold at Fotheringhay Castle, in the north of England, by order of Queen Elizabeth I. Mary had been found guilty of conspiring against the life of the English queen.
On the same date, but in 2017, in the United Kingdom, the House of Commons approves the law that will initiate Brexit, which will allow the British Government to notify Brussels of the country’s exit from the European Union (EU).
What are the ephemeris of February 8?
1827.- On February 8 and 9, the battle of Juncal takes place, between Argentina and Brazil, which was the greatest Argentine naval victory.
1861.- Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia and South Carolina form the “Confederate States of America”.
1887.- The United States enacts the General Adjudication Law or “Dawes Law”, which authorizes the US president to divide the Indian tribes and distribute them into small parcels.
1898.- In Guatemala, President José María Reina Barrios is assassinated.
1904.- The Japanese navy attacks by surprise the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur. Two days later Japan declared war on Russia, which ended in 1905 with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth.
1910.- William D. Boyce, American businessman and publisher, founded the Boys Scouts of America (BSA) youth organization in Washington.
1919.- French pilot Henri Farman made the Paris-London crossing with 11 passengers in the adapted F.60 Goliath bomber, in what was considered the first commercial flight between the two cities.
1924.- DA Turner is executed in the gas chamber, in the Nevada State prison, in the United States. For the first time, the gas was used to execute a death row inmate.
1928.- The British John Logie Baird made the first televised transmission between London and New York.
1941.- The Iberian sculpture “Dama de Elche” is delivered to Spain by the French government.
1950.- The Ministry for State Security is founded, popularly known as the Stasi, the secret police of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
1952.- In the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is proclaimed queen, who was crowned in 1953 in Westminster Abbey.
1969.- In the city of Allende, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, the meteorite baptized with the name of that locality falls, considered the largest known carbonaceous chondrite and the “most studied meteorite in the world”.
– The rock group Blind Faith is founded in London with Eric Clapton, Stevie Winwood and Ginger Baker.
1971.- In the United States, Nasdaq, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, is born, the largest electronic stock exchange in the world.
1974.- The last crew of the American space station Skylab, which had been in orbit since 1973 and which disintegrated and fell into the Indian Ocean in 1979, returns to Earth.
1975.- Bolivia reestablishes, in the so-called “Embrace of Charaña”, diplomatic relations with Chile, broken in 1962.
1989.- Algeria and Morocco sign an agreement that allows the creation of a mixed company for the construction of a gas pipeline that supplies Algerian gas to Western Europe and Morocco.
1997.- Ecuador is experiencing one of the worst political crises in its history. Abdalá Bucaram, dismissed as president for mental illness, Fabián Alarcón, designated interim president, and Vice President Rosalía Arteaga, proclaim themselves presidents at the same time.
2003.- Thirty people die and more than a hundred are injured in a car bomb attack against a social club in Bogotá.
2005.- The Palestinian-Israeli Summit is held in Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt), in which Abu Mazen, president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and the prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, announce a ceasefire, after almost five years of second “intifada”.
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2017.- In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons approves the law that will initiate Brexit, which will allow the British Government to notify Brussels of the country’s exit from the European Union (EU).
Who was born on a February 8?
1828.- Jules Verne, French novelist, creator of the science fiction novel.
1890.- Anita Delgado, Spanish and Maharani dancer from Kapurthala (India).
1921.- Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner “Lana Turner”, American film actress.
1923.- Alfonso Aragón Bermúdez, “Fofó”, clown and singer.
1925.- Jack Lemmon, American film actor.
1931.- James Dean, American actor.
1941.- Nick Nolte, American actor.
1944.- Sebastiao Ribeiro Salgado, Brazilian photographer.
1955.- John Grisham, American writer.
Who died on a February 8?
1921.- Piotr Kropotkin, Russian anarchist theorist.
1999.- Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist.
2005.- Javier Tusell, Spanish historian.
2012.- Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentine musician
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