123 sourced historical events are currently published for February 8. Browse the chronology below or filter this date by place and event type. This collection is expanding, not an exhaustive account of the day.
The published February 8 chronology runs from 421 to 2026, a span of 1,605 years. It contains 123 sourced records across 48 countries and 8 event categories. These figures describe the current collection, not all events that occurred on this date.
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On 8 February 421, Honorius proclaimed Constantius III his co-emperor in the Western Roman Empire. The Eastern emperor Theodosius II refused to recognize the appointment.
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The Battle of Flochberg (8 February 1150) was a victory for the royal forces of Henry (VI) of Germany over the House of Welf, led by Welf VI and his son, Welf VII. Henry's father, Conrad III, and Welf VI had gone on the Second Crusade together. On his return journey in 1148 Welf had entered into an alliance with Roger II of Sicily, Conrad's enemy.
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From 8 to 11 February 1250, Crusaders led by Louis IX fought Ayyubid forces at Mansurah in Egypt. Ayyubid commanders included Shajar al-Durr, vizier Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Shaykh, Faris ad-Din Aktai, Baybars and Qutuz. Shajar controlled the treasury and took over military affairs during the battle; she became sultana later in 1250. The Crusaders entered the town and were attacked by Egyptian forces.
This record uses the battle's start date.
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On 8 February 1347, an agreement ended the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347. John VI Kantakouzenos would serve as senior emperor for ten years, after which he and John V Palaiologos were to rule as equals.
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On 8 February 1587, Old Style, Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed at Fotheringhay Castle in England, now part of the United Kingdom. She had been tried for involvement in the Babington Plot against Elizabeth I.
February 8 follows the Julian calendar used in England; the year is given under the January-start convention.
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The siege of Pyongyang was a military conflict fought between the allied Ming-Joseon army and the Japanese First Division under Konishi Yukinaga, who were besieged in the city of Pyongyang. The battle ended in victory for the allies although remnants of the Japanese forces successfully escaped from the city in the night of 8 February 1593.
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On 8 February 1601, the Earl of Essex led supporters through London in an attempt to force access to Queen Elizabeth I. The rising failed, and he surrendered that evening after royal forces surrounded Essex House.
February 8 follows the contemporary Old Style day; the year is rendered as 1601 with the year starting in January.
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Battle of Myadel was a battle of the Russo-Polish War (1654–67) which took place on February 8, 1659 near the Belarusian town of Myadzel. The Russian army of Novgorod led by Ivan Khovansky defeated the Polish–Lithuanians led by Mikołaj Judycki and Władysław Wołłowicz. As a result, the Polish-Lithuanian army retreated to the safety of the walls of Lyakhovichi.
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The Sack of Campeche, known to later Spanish historians as Mansfield's Assault, was a 1663 raid by buccaneers led by Christopher Myngs and Edward Mansvelt which became a model for later coastal raids of the buccaneering era.
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The Schenectady massacre was an attack against the colonial settlement of Schenectady in the English Province of New York on February 8, 1690. A raiding party of 114 French soldiers and militiamen, accompanied by 96 allied Mohawk and Algonquin warriors, attacked the unguarded community, destroying most of the homes, and killing or capturing most of its inhabitants. Sixty residents were killed, including 11 Black slaves.
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The College of William & Mary (W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, among the original nine colonial colleges, and the ninth-oldest institution in the English-speaking world.
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The Battle of Oposhnya was a battle which took place on February 8, 1709 during the Swedish invasion of Russia in the Great Northern War. After the costly siege of Veprik the Swedes under Charles XII of Sweden started an offensive against the Russian army in the area. The intention of this offensive was not clear to the Russians, as they subsequently had to spread their main forces out to cover possible attack directions. One of these were the troops under Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov positioned at Oposhnya on the river Vorskla to block any attempt by the Swedes to cross the river.
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The Battle of Campo Santo was fought in Campo Santo, Italy on 8 February 1743 between Spain and Austria, as part of the War of the Austrian Succession. The Spaniards and their Neapolitan allies under General De Gages were fought to a standstill by the Austrians and their Sardinian allies under Field Marshal Traun on the Panaro. The Spanish sustained heavy casualties, but as darkness fell, Traun ordered a general retreat; de Gages, rather than pursue, himself drew back over the river.
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The Battle of Eylau was fought on February 7–8, 1807, between Napoleon's Grande Armée and a Russian army under Levin August von Bennigsen near Preussisch Eylau, now Bagrationovsk in Russia. A Prussian division under Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq reinforced the Russians late in the battle. The French held the battlefield after the Russians withdrew, but suffered heavy losses and failed to destroy the Russian army.
This entry records the final day of the battle; holding the field did not amount to a decisive strategic victory.
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In the War of the Sixth Coalition, the Battle of the Mincio River was fought on 8 February 1814 and resulted in an inconclusive engagement between the French under Eugène de Beauharnais and the Austrians under Field Marshal Heinrich von Bellegarde. Fought on the same ground as Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Borghetto in 1796, the battle was not as decisive as Eugène hoped, and in the end it had little significant impact upon the war, whose outcome was to be decided in France rather than Italy.
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On February 8, 1837, the United States Senate elected Richard M. Johnson vice president by 33 votes to 17 over Francis Granger. No candidate had received a majority of the electoral votes for vice president in the 1836 election.
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The February 1858 Light colonial by-election was held on 8 February 1858 to elect one of two members for Light in the South Australian House of Assembly, after sitting member Carrington Smedley resigned on 23 December 1857. William Henry Maturin won the by-election with 58 per cent of the vote.
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The Battle of Slupcza took place on February 8, 1863, near the village of Slupcza, Congress Poland, during the January Uprising. Up to 100 Polish insurgents commanded by Leon Frankowski and Antoni Zdanowicz clashed on that day with a unit of the Imperial Russian Army. The skirmish was won by the Russians. In late January 1863, an insurgent unit, which was concentrated in Kurow, was forced to leave the town under Russian pressure. Polish unit marched to Sandomierz, but decided not to enter this town, and clashed with Russians near Slupcza. The Russians attacked with two infantry companies and a Cossack unit, defeating main insurgent force.
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On February 8, 1871, France elected a National Assembly during the Franco-Prussian War. Candidates could stand in more than one department, and Adolphe Thiers was elected in 26 departments. He chose to represent the Seine. The new assembly would decide the terms of peace following the armistice.
February 8 is the election, not the later peace treaty or Thiers’s appointment to executive office.
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The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 in an alliance of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. The cause of the war was the desire of the US government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills.
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At the Canadian Institute in Toronto, Sandford Fleming presented a paper proposing a common reference meridian for timekeeping. The proposal was part of his work on a worldwide system of standard time.
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Battle of Schuinshoogte, also known as Battle of Ingogo, was fought north of Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, on 8 February 1881 during the First Boer War. General Sir George Pomeroy Colley's communications with Newcastle were under constant harassment by mounted Boer patrols under Commander J D Weilbach after the Battle of Laing's Nek (another British defeat) and as a result he planned to clear a path along the Newcastle-Mount Prospect road to better protect the British supply line, and receive fresh reinforcements he needed to bolster his ranks. At roughly 9 a.m. he left the Mount Prospect camp with a force consisting mostly of infantrymen.
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The steamship City of Tokio reached Honolulu carrying the first group under the government-sponsored Kanyaku Imin labour migration programme. An earlier group of Japanese workers had arrived in Hawaii in 1868.
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The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. Named after Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, it authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American (Indian) tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals.
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The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: 旅順口海戦 Hepburn: Ryojunkō Kaisen) of 8–9 February 1904 (Monday February 8 - Tuesday February 9) marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. It began with a surprise night attack by a squadron of Japanese destroyers on the Russian fleet anchored at Port Arthur, Manchuria, and continued with an engagement of major surface combatants the following morning; further skirmishing off Port Arthur would continue until May 1904. The battle itself ended inconclusively, though the war itself ended in a decisive Japanese victory.
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The Russo-Japanese War began on the night of 8–9 February 1904, when Japanese naval forces attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, in present-day Lüshun, China. Japan and Russia were competing for influence in Manchuria and Korea.
The source records the war’s start as February 8; the opening naval action took place overnight on February 8–9.
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The Argentine Revolution of 1905 also known as the Radical Revolution of 1905 (Spanish: Revolución radical de 1905) was a civil-military uprising organized by the Radical Civic Union and headed by Hipólito Yrigoyen against the oligarchic dominance known as the Roquismo led by Julio Argentino Roca and his National Autonomist Party.
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Leo Baekeland described his synthetic resin to the New York section of the American Chemical Society. His process produced a material that could be shaped in moulds and hardened.
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Chicago publisher William D. Boyce filed incorporation papers in Washington, D.C., establishing the Boy Scouts of America. The group later received a congressional charter in 1916.
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A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Batman on 8 February 1911. This was triggered by the death of Labour MP Henry Beard. The by-election was won by Labour candidate Frank Brennan.
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The Battle of Bulair (Bulgarian: Битка при Була ир, Turkish: Bolayır Muharebesi) took place on 8 February 1913 (O.S. 26 January 1913) between the Bulgarian Seventh Rila Infantry Division under General Georgi Todorov and the Ottoman 27th Infantry Division. The result was a Bulgarian victory. Lack of communication between the Ottoman Vanguard and their landing force and stubbornness of Enver Pasha against the combined criticism from officers Ali Fethi and Mustafa Kemal against his plans costed the Ottoman 27th Brigade their full offensive capabilities.
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On February 8, 1915, D. W. Griffith’s silent film The Birth of a Nation premiered at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles, United States, under the title The Clansman.
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Lucien Bossoutrot flew a converted Farman Goliath from Toussus-le-Noble near Paris to RAF Kenley near London. The demonstration carried passengers and helped pave the way for commercial flights between the two cities.
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The Odessa operation (11 January – 8 February 1920) was an offensive operation during the Russian Civil War of the South Western Front of the Red Army against the Novorossiysk Oblast Army Group of the White Armed Forces of South Russia. The operation was a success for the Red Army, as Odessa was taken on 8 February and, despite an evacuation over the Black Sea supported by the British Royal Navy, many White soldiers and material were captured.
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The 1921 South African general election was held for the 134 seats in the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, on 8 February 1921. The South African Party, which since the previous election had fused with the Unionist Party, won an absolute majority.
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This is a list of constituency results for the 1921 South African general election.
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The Whitechapel and St Georges by-election, 1923 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Whitechapel and St Georges on 8 February 1923.
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Gee Jon (Chinese: 朱家休; c. 1895 – February 8, 1924) was a Chinese national who was the first person in the United States to be executed by lethal gas. Gee was sentenced to death for the 1921 murder of Tom Quong Kee in Mina, Nevada as part of a gang dispute. An unsuccessful attempt to pump poison gas directly into his cell at Nevada State Prison led to the development of the gas chamber.
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General elections were held in Guatemala between 6 and 8 February 1931. In the presidential election Jorge Ubico was elected unopposed, after the remaining sector of the old Liberal Party did not object to his candidacy, whilst the Conservative Party was too disorganised and discredited from the Lázaro Chacón González era to put forward a candidate.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq in 1933 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies. Although the Government Bloc led by incumbent Prime Minister Naji Shawkat won the most seats, it quickly disintegrated after the elections, allowing Rashid Ali al-Gaylani to become prime minister.
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General elections were held in Turkey on 8 February 1935. The Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time.
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The Battle of Málaga was the culmination of an offensive in February 1937 by the combined Nationalist and Italian forces to eliminate Republican control of the province of Málaga during the Spanish Civil War. Nazi Germany was also involved through air and naval support. The participation of Moroccan regulars and especially of modern and armoured Italian forces from the recently arrived Corpo Truppe Volontarie resulted in a complete rout of the Spanish Republican Army and the capitulation of Málaga in less than a week.
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The Interprovincial Council of Santander, Palencia and Burgos was a governing body established on 8 February 1937 to coordinate the Republican areas in Cantabria (then officially called the Province of Santander), Palencia and Burgos during the Spanish Civil War. The council was dissolved in August 1937 after the occupation of the region by Nationalist forces.
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Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 8 February 1942. Óscar Carmona ran unopposed and was reelected for a third term.
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On the night of 8 February 1942, Japanese forces crossed the Johor Strait and began landing on the northwestern coast of Singapore island. The landings opened the battle for Singapore, which continued until February 15.
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The Attack on Volodymyrets or Battle of Volodymyrets was the first organised action of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army against the German forces, the attack itself was organized by Hryhoriy Perehiniak's sotnia. The attack took place on the night of February 7–8, 1943.
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Operation Veritable (also known as the Battle of the Reichswald) was the northern part of an Allied pincer movement that took place between 8 February and 11 March 1945 during the final stages of the Second World War. The operation was conducted by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group, primarily consisting of the First Canadian Army under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar and the British XXX Corps under Lieutenant-general Brian Horrocks.
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On 8 February 1945, Soviet pilot Mikhail Devyataev and nine fellow prisoners escaped from Peenemünde on the German island of Usedom by taking a German aircraft.
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On 8–9 February 1946, representatives of political parties, social organizations, people’s committees and administrative bureaus established the Provisional People’s Committee of North Korea, chaired by Kim Il Sung.
February 8 marks establishment in the source; the organizing meeting continued through February 9.
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General elections were held in Costa Rica on 8 February 1948. Otilio Ulate Blanco of the National Union Party won the presidential election with 55.3% of the vote, although the elections were deemed fraudulent and annulled by Congress, leading to the Costa Rican Civil War later that year. Following the war, the results of the parliamentary election were also annulled.
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On 8 February 1948, the Korean People’s Army was formally established in northern Korea, in the territory of present-day North Korea. The February establishment is distinct from the April 25 date later used to commemorate an earlier guerrilla organization.
This is the February 1948 regular-army establishment; later commemoration dates refer to different historical claims.
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On 8 February 1950, East Germany established the Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi. Wilhelm Zaisser became its first minister, with Erich Mielke as his deputy.
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General elections were held in Gold Coast on 8 February 1951. Although elections had been held for the Legislative Council since 1925, the Council did not have complete control over the legislation, and the voting franchise was limited to residents of urban areas meeting property requirements and the councils of chiefs.
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On 8 February 1954, Yang Panchih, a medical scientist, was born.
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At a Privy Council meeting, Queen Elizabeth II declared that certain descendants who needed a surname would use Mountbatten-Windsor. She and her children would continue to belong to the House of Windsor.
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The massacre at the Charonne metro station of 8 February 1962 was an incident that took place around and in the Charonne metro station in Paris, during a demonstration against the Secret Armed Organization (OAS) and the Algerian War, which resulted in the death of nine people crushed in the doorway of the metro station.
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The Ramadan Revolution, also referred to as the 8 February Revolution and the February 1963 coup d'état (Arabic: حركة 8 شباط) in Iraq, was a military coup by the Iraqi branch of the Ba'ath Party in February 1963 that overthrew the prime minister of Iraq, Abdul-Karim Qasim in favour of a Ba'athist government.
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Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 was an American domestic passenger flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Atlanta, Georgia, with scheduled stopovers at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York; Richmond, Virginia; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Greenville, South Carolina. On the night of February 8, 1965, the aircraft serving the flight, a Douglas DC-7, crashed near Jones Beach State Park, New York, just after taking off from JFK Airport.
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Aircraft began delivering personnel and equipment for Battery A to Da Nang Air Base. The battery’s Hawk surface-to-air missiles were deployed to defend the airfield.
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A leadership election in the Australian Labor Party, then the opposition party in the Parliament of Australia, was held on 8 February 1967. It followed the resignation of previous leader Arthur Calwell. The contest was won by Calwell's deputy Gough Whitlam in a caucus ballot.
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The Orangeburg Massacre was a shooting of student protesters on Thursday February 8, 1968, on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States. Nine highway patrolmen and one city police officer opened fire on a crowd of African American students, killing three and injuring twenty-eight. The shootings were the culmination of a series of protests against de facto racial segregation at a local bowling alley, marking the first instance of police killing student protestors at an American university. Two days before the shootings, student activists had been arrested for a sit-in at the segregated All-Star Bowling Lane.
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The Siahkal incident (Persian: واقعه سیاهکل) or Siahkal movement (Persian: جنبش سیاهکل) was a pivotal armed raid conducted on 8 February 1971 by members of the Fadaiyan-e-Khalq, an underground Iranian Marxist–Leninist guerrilla organization. Executed by a specialized clandestine cell known as the "Jungle Group" (Gorooh-e Jangal), the operation targeted a regional gendarmerie outpost in the forests of Gilan province.
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Operation Lam Son 719 or 9th Route – Southern Laos Campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Lam Sơn 719 or Chiến dịch đường 9 – Nam Lào) was a limited-objective offensive campaign conducted in the southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos. The campaign was carried out by the armed forces of South Vietnam between 8 February and 25 March 1971, during the Vietnam War.
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The 1974 Upper Voltan coup d'état was a bloodless military coup which took place in the Republic of Upper Volta on 8 February 1974. The coup was effectively a self-coup, orchestrated by President General Sangoulé Lamizana (in office since the 1966 coup), against the RDA-led government of Prime Minister Gérard Kango Ouédraogo, formed following the 1970 parliamentary election.
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Presidential elections were held in Syria on 8 February 1978. There was only one candidate, Hafez al-Assad, with voters asked to approve or reject his candicacy. A reported 99.9% of voters voted in favour, with a turnout of 97%.
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The 2nd Yokohama Film Festival (第2回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 8 February 1981 in Keihin Film Theatre, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan.
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A leadership spill in the Australian Labor Party, the opposition party in the Parliament of Australia, was held on 8 February 1983. It saw the resignation of leader Bill Hayden followed by the election of Bob Hawke.
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A large cloud of dust blew into Melbourne during a period of severe drought. The storm darkened the city during the afternoon.
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The 1986 Tasmanian state election was held on 8 February 1986 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system — seven members were elected from each of five electorates. The quota required for election was 12.5% in each division. The incumbent Liberal government headed by Robin Gray hoped to secure a second term in office.
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Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 8 February 1986 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and 17 members to the 34-seat Legislative Council. The Labor government, led by Premier Brian Burke, won a second term in office against the Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Bill Hassell since 16 February 1984.
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A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Scullin in Victoria (Australia) on 8 February 1986. This was triggered by the resignation of Labor Party MP and Speaker Harry Jenkins to become Australian Ambassador to Spain. Scullin had always been a very safe Labor seat, and the election was won easily by Labor candidate Harry Jenkins (the former member's son), despite a swing to the Liberal Party.
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On February 8, 1986, a Canadian National freight train collided with a Via Rail passenger train near Hinton, Alberta, Canada. Twenty-three people were killed.
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Caucuses in Iowa for the Democratic presidential nomination were held on February 8, marking the Democratic Party's first nominating contest in their series of presidential primaries ahead of the 1988 presidential election. Dick Gephardt, having focused his campaign against offshoring, won a plurality in the preference vote and precinct caucuses. However, Michael Dukakis, who placed third in both of those contests, received a plurality of the delegates to the national convention.
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On 8 February 1989, Independent Air Flight 1851, a Boeing 707 on an American charter flight from Bergamo, Italy, to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, struck Pico Alto while on approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores for a scheduled stopover. The aircraft was destroyed, with the loss of all 144 people on board, resulting in the deadliest plane crash in Portugal's history.
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On 8 February 1993, Iran Airtour Flight 962, a Tupolev Tu-154, collided in mid-air with an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft near the Iranian capital of Tehran, killing all 133 people aboard both aircraft. It was the deadliest aviation accident in 1993.
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The 19th Yokohama Film Festival (第19回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 8 February 1998 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
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Presidential elections were held in Cyprus on 8 February 1998, with a second round on 15 February. The result was a victory for Glafcos Clerides of the Democratic Rally after he finished as runner-up behind George Iacovou (who was supported by AKEL and the Democratic Party) in the first round. Voter turnout was 91.7% in the first round and 93.4% in the second.
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An indirect election for the position of President of the Hellenic Republic was held by the Hellenic Parliament on 8 February 2000. Incumbent President Konstantinos Stephanopoulos was elected on the first ballot with 269 votes out of 298, with the support of the two major parties, the ruling PASOK and New Democracy, against 10 votes for Synaspismos' candidate Leonidas Kyrkos. The 19 MPs of the Communist Party of Greece and DIKKI voted "present", and two were absent. Stephanopoulos' re-election to the presidency marked the first time in the history of the Third Hellenic Republic that the ruling party and the main opposition party both supported the same candidate, as well as the first time that an incumbent President was re-elected.
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Macao named Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, Wynn Resorts (Macau) and Galaxy Casino as the provisional winners of its casino concession tender. The decision was part of the transition from a single casino concession to multiple operators.
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ROH One Year Anniversary Show was the first ROH Anniversary Show professional wrestling event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on February 8, 2003 at the Elks Lodge in Queens, New York.
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On 8 February 2003, Liu Hsia, a writer, died.
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The 2004 PASOK leadership election took place on 8 February 2004. Only one candidate stood for the presidency, George Papandreou, who received 99,70% of the vote. 1,020,145 members and friends of the Party participated in the elections, a record still unbroken for internal party elections in Greece.
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An indirect election for the position of President of the Hellenic Republic was held by the Hellenic Parliament on 8 February 2005. Running unopposed, veteran PASOK politician and former Foreign Minister of Greece Karolos Papoulias was elected on the first ballot with the record number of 279 votes, with 163 MPs of the ruling New Democracy party, 114 MPs of PASOK and two independent MPs voting in support, four MPs absent, while the 17 MPs of Synaspismos and the Communist Party of Greece voted "present". He was sworn in on 12 March 2005, succeeding Konstantinos Stephanopoulos.
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The 2005 Manihiki by-election was a by-election in the Cook Islands electorate of Manihiki. It was held on 8 February 2005, shortly after the 2004 general election, and was precipitated by an electoral petition finding the result in the seat to be a dead tie. Both parties to the petition, Prime Minister Robert Woonton and Cook Islands Party leader Henry Puna had agreed that in the event of a draw the question should be decided by the voters, and so Woonton resigned.
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A parliamentary election was held in Djibouti on 8 February 2008. There were 65 candidates running for the 65 seats in the National Assembly, with all of the candidates coming from the ruling coalition, the Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP). The opposition boycotted the election, and the UMP won all 65 seats. In boycotting the election, the opposition complained that the electoral system guaranteed victory for the UMP; in the previous January 2003 parliamentary election, the UMP won all 65 seats even though the opposition won 38% of the vote. The opposition unsuccessfully demanded that proportional representation be introduced.
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The 2012 Kapisa airstrike refers to a NATO air raid in which seven children and one adult were killed in a village in Nijrab District of Kapisa Province, Afghanistan. The strike took place on 8 February 2012.
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Fighting between Malian troops and MNLA rebels at Tinzaouaten in Mali lasted from 7 to 8 February 2012. The rebels took control of the commune and the Malian garrison withdrew across the border into Algeria.
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The 2012 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election followed as a result the expiration of the five-year term of the previous legislature elected in Uttar Pradesh, India. The election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held in seven phases from 8 February through 3 March 2012. Uttar Pradesh has the world's largest population for a sub-national democracy.
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On February 8, 2013, fighting broke out between the Red Berets of Mali's 33rd Parachute Commando Regiment and the Green Berets in the military camp in Djicoroni, Bamako, Mali. The Red Berets supported the regime of Amadou Toumani Touré, who was overthrown in a coup led by Amadou Sanogo and supported by the Green Berets in 2012.
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From February 8–10, 2013, a severe and powerful blizzard, unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Nemo by The Weather Channel and other media, or more commonly the Blizzard of 2013, primarily affecting the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada, causing heavy snowfall up to 1–2 feet (12–24 in; 30–61 cm) and hurricane-force winds.
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A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Griffith occurred on Saturday 8 February 2014. Terri Butler retained the seat for Labor with a 51.8 (−1.2) percent two-party vote against Liberal National Party candidate Bill Glasson.
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The 2014 Medina hotel fire was a hotel fire that occurred in a hotel in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The fire killed at least 15 people and another 130 were injured.
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The New Politics Alliance for Democracy held a leadership election on 8 February 2015. It was an election held in about six months since Kim Han-gil and Ahn Cheol-soo, who were NPAD's co-leaders, resigned on 31 July 2014.
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The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations final was a football match that took place on 8 February 2015 to determine the winner of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The match was held at the Estadio de Bata in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, and was contested by Ghana and Ivory Coast.
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Indirect presidential elections were held in Somalia on 8 February 2017. Members of parliament elected in the autumn-2016 parliamentary election elected former Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed to the post of President of Somalia for a four-year term. The presidential elections had been planned for August 2016 and promised to be a one-person, one-vote national poll, but had been postponed several times and shifted to an electoral college system due to security concerns.
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Road To The World Championship was a professional wrestling event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW), which took place on February 8, 2018 at the Gilt Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The event featured the opening round of a tournament for the reinstated MLW World Heavyweight Championship. Twelve professional wrestling matches were contested at the card. The main event was a hardcore match between Darby Allin and Sami Callihan, which Allin won.
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On 8 February 2018, the Battle of Khasham in Syria reached its recorded endpoint after fighting that began the previous day. US-led coalition forces carried out air and artillery strikes against pro-government forces near Khasham in Deir ez-Zor province.
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UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on February 8, 2020, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Legislative Assembly elections were held in Delhi on 8 February 2020 to elect 70 members of the Delhi Legislative Assembly. Voters turnout was recorded at 62.82%, a decline of 4.65% from the previous assembly election in Delhi but 2.2% more than the 2019 Indian general election in Delhi. The term of the assembly elected in 2015 expired on 22 February 2020.
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The 2020 Irish general election took place on Saturday 8 February, to elect the 33rd Dáil, the lower house of Ireland's parliament. The election was called following the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil by the president, at the request of the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, on 14 January 2020. The members, Teachtaí Dála (TDs), were elected by single transferable vote in multi-seat constituencies.
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Between 8 and 9 February 2020, a mass shooting occurred near and in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, colloquially known as Korat. A sergeant major of the Royal Thai Army killed 29 people and wounded 58 others before he was eventually shot and killed. The attack began when the perpetrator shot and killed his commanding officer and two others at Suratham Phithak Military Camp (ค่ายสุรธรรมพิทักษ์), the base where he was stationed.
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The 2020 Japanese Super Cup (known as Fuji Xerox Super Cup 2020 for sponsorship reasons) was the 27th Japanese Super Cup since its reestablishment, and the 35th overall. It was held on 8 February 2020 between the 2019 J1 League champions Yokohama F. Marinos and the 2019 Emperor's Cup winners Vissel Kobe. It took place at the Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Saitama.
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On February 8, 2022, Félix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, reported a coup d'état. The reports of a coup emerged when Tshisekedi was attending the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, of which he is the chairperson. The reports caused Tshisekedi to leave the summit early to deal with the internal conflict in his country.
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The 2022 Oklahoma City mayoral election took place on February 8, 2022, to elect the Mayor of Oklahoma City. Incumbent Republican Mayor David Holt won re-election outright with 59.8% of the vote, eliminating the need for a runoff. All Oklahoma city municipal elections are required to be non-partisan, but candidates may be affiliated with a political party.
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The 2022 Battle of Loikaw was a battle for the city of Loikaw, in Myanmar's Kayah State, between January and July 2022. The State Administration Council's Tatmadaw forces attacked the city at the beginning of 2022, which was being held by the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force and local People's Defence Force groups. The fighting caused over 90,000 people in Loikaw Township to flee.
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On 8 February 2022, Ming Jin-cheng, a director, died.
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On February 8, 2023, bus driver Pierre Ny St-Amand deliberately crashed Société de transport de Laval (STL) bus into a daycare in Laval, Quebec, Canada, killing two children and injuring six others. St-Amand was quickly subdued by bystanders and arrested. Trauma support was provided to affected families and residents. Quebec Premier François Legault and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the area to pay respects in the days following the incident. St-Amand, a father of two with no prior criminal record, was arrested on eight charges. A Quebec Superior Court ordered a psychiatric evaluation to assess his mental state during the crash.
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General elections, originally scheduled to be held in 2023, were held in Pakistan on 8 February 2024 to elect the members of the 16th National Assembly. The Election Commission of Pakistan announced the detailed schedule on 15 December 2023. The elections were held following two years of political unrest after Prime Minister Imran Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was removed from office by a no-confidence motion.
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General elections were held in Faisalabad on 8 February 2024 to elect the 4 members of 15th National Assembly from Faisalabad. Independent candidates backed by the PTI won all four seats.
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The 2024 U.S. Virgin Islands Republican presidential caucuses were held on February 8, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. Although the United States Virgin Islands will not participate in the 2024 presidential general election because it is a U.S. territory and not a state, it equally participated in the U.S. presidential caucuses and primaries.
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General elections were held in the Islamabad Capital Territory on 8 February 2024 to elect the 3 members of 15th National Assembly from Islamabad. The Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)) won 2 of the 3 seats available, while an independent candidate was elected to the other seat.
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Provincial elections were held in Balochistan on 8 February 2024 to elect a new provincial legislature.
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Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Punjab on 8 February 2024 to elect a new provincial legislature.
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Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 8 February 2024 to elect members of the 12th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Provincial elections were held in Sindh on 8 February 2024 to elect a new provincial legislature.
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SuperFight 6 was a professional wrestling event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW). It took place on February 8, 2025, at the Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the sixth event under the SuperFight chronology. The event streamed live on MLW's YouTube channel, with additional matches being taped for the Intimidation Games special, which aired on March 8 on Bein Sports USA and YouTube.
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The 2025 Werribee state by-election was held on 8 February 2025 to elect the member for Werribee in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the resignation of Labor MP Tim Pallas. It took place on the same day as a by-election for Prahran. On 19 February 2025, the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) declared Labor candidate John Lister as the winner of the by-election by 0.82% or 693 votes.
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On February 8, 2025, MC Alger and CR Belouizdad contested the 2024 Algerian Super Cup at Stade du 5 Juillet in Algiers, Algeria. The match retained its 2024 edition name despite being played in 2025.
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The 2025 Prahran state by-election was held on 8 February 2025 to elect the member for Prahran in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the resignation of incumbent MP Sam Hibbins, who had held the seat for the Victorian Greens since the 2014 election. The poll took place on the same day as a by-election for Werribee.
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On February 8, 2025, ACA 183: Tumenov vs. Vagaev took place at Basket Hall in Krasnodar, Russia.
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ONE Fight Night 28: Prajanchai vs. Barboza was a combat sports event produced by ONE Championship that took place on February 8, 2025, at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
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The 2025 Japanese Super Cup (known as Fujifilm Super Cup 2025 for sponsorship reasons) was the 32nd Japanese Super Cup since its reestablishment, and the 40th overall. It was held on 8 February 2025 between the 2024 J1 League champions and Emperor's Cup winners Vissel Kobe and the 2024 J1 League runners-up Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the fourth league runners-up to ever qualify for the competition.
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On February 8, 2026, the K-1 World GP –90 kg World Championship Tournament took place at Yoyogi 2nd Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.
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