February 8......

February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 (327 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

● 1517 - Hernandez de Cordova sails with three vessels from Cuba to Bahama Islands in search of Indian slaves.

● 1526 - Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die

● 1575 - Universiteit Leiden founded, and given the motto "Praesidium Libertatis".

● 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

● 1600 - Vatican condemns scholar Giordano Bruno to death

● 1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed.

● 1622 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.

● 1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London

● 1690 - French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire

● 1690 - Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal

● 1692 - A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony declares that three teenage girls are under domination of Satan, leading to the Salem witch trials.

● 1693 - The College of William and Mary was founded in Williamsburg, Virginia for the purpose of educating Anglican clergyman. After Harvard, it is the second oldest institution of higher learning in America.

● 1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.

● 1743 - Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth

● 1744 - French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon

● 1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians, David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'I find that both mind and body are quickly tired with intenseness and fervor in the things of God. Oh that I could be as incessant as angels in devotion and spiritual fervor.'

● 1750 - Minor earthquake in London

● 1775 - Leidse University 400th anniversary dinner

● 1802 - Simon Willard patents banjo clock

● 1805 - Birth of Louis Auguste Blanque, Paris Commune leader.

● 1807 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.

● 1809 - Russians who built a blockhouse on the Hoh River (Olympic Peninsula of what is now Washington state) taken captive by Hoh Indians, and are held as slaves for two years. {One the few cases of turnaround that in no makes up for the tremendous wrongs done to the American Indian.}

● 1817 - Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.

● 1837 - The Senate selected Richard Mentor Johnson as vice president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes. (Van Buren administration)

● 1849 - New Roman Republic established.

● 1851 - Death of Alexander Haldane, 83. In 1797 he founded the Society for Propagating the Gospel at Home, after discovering that the Church of Scotland was as little interested in home missions as it was in foreign missions.

● 1851 - Birth of American feminist writer Kate Chopin, St. Louis, Missouri.

● 1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.

● 1861 - Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery AL

● 1861 - A Cheyenne delegation and some Arapohoe leadeers accepted a new settlement (Treaty of Fort Wise) with the U.S. Federal government. The deal ceded most of their land but secured a 600-square mile reservation and annuity payments.

● 1862 - Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound

● 1865 - Birth of Lewis E. Jones, American YMCA director. Jones was also a writer of hymns, and his most enduring contribution (which he both wrote and composed) was "Power in the Blood."

● 1865 - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany

● 1867 - The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.

● 1878 - Martin Buber, the German-Jewish religious philosopher, was born.

● 1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

● 1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments to invent the fountain pen

● 1886 - "Black Monday" - A meeting of 3-5000 unemployed workers in London's Trafalgar Square met by 600 police officers, ends in a riot. Demonstrations in Trafalgar Square banned.

● 1887 - Pres. Grover Cleveland signs the Dawes Land Allotment Act, dissolving Indian tribes as legal entities. It distributes territory held in common by American Indian nations to individual families. Each family is to get 160 acres. All other land will be sold, with proceeds going to an educational trust fund. The Act ultimately results in the loss of tens of millions of acres of treaty land. The congressional committee that proposed the law included, among its goals, that "lands unnecessarily reserved for [tribes should be] opened to the pioneer [so that] intelligence and thrift may find lodging there."

● 1889 - Flood ravages Dutch coast

● 1894 - Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier for whites to disenfranchise blacks.

● 1898 - John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming machine (Massachusetts)

● 1900 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.

● 1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.

● 1905 - Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people

● 1909 - France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco

● 1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.

● 1911 - U.S. helps overthrow Honduran Pres. Miguel D. Vila.

● 1912 - Vigilantes beat IWW organizers for exercising free speech rights in San Diego, Calif. Some are tarred and feathered, forced to kiss the American flag, and run out of town by the good citizens.

● 1912 - 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville FL

● 1914 - General Zamon becomes President of Haiti

● 1915 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

● 1916 - French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374

● 1917 - Igal Roodenko, nonviolent activist and WWII CO, born, New York.

● 1918 - The Stars and Stripes newspaper publishes for the first time.

● 1919 - General strike in Butte, Montana, caused by dollar per day wage cut.

● 1919 - "La Canadienne" strike in Barcelona, Spain, taking its name from the principle electrical company involved, begins. Lasts 44 days, and extends to other companies, becoming a general strike -- paralyzing the whole city and industry. The government responds by imprisoning 3000 strikers of the anarchist CNT, and declares martial law. Eventually the government gives in, granting all workers a wage increase and eight-hour day; those imprisoned during the strike are also to be released. Over 20,000 people turn out to greet the release of the CNT leaders.

● 1920 - Swiss men vote against women's suffrage

● 1921 - Death of Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist. His funeral five days later, attended by 100,000 people, is the last non-state-sponsored mass assembly in Russia for 70 years.

● 1922 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.

● 1923 - Coal mine explosion at Dawson NM kills 120

● 1924 - 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago

● 1924 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.

● 1926 - German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership

● 1927 - Belgian-Swiss treaty signed

● 1928 - 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale NY

● 1928 - Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV

● 1931 - Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000

● 1933 - -23ºF (-31ºC), Seminole TX (state record)

● 1933 - 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247

● 1934 - Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington DC

● 1934 - Gaston Doumergue forms new French government

● 1936 - Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party

● 1936 - Jay Berwanger becomes the first person to be selected by a National Football League draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles.

● 1940 - Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland

● 1941 - Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore

● 1941 - NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch radio

● 1942 - House Un-American Activities Committee recommends removing Japanese nationals from the Pacific Coast states for the duration of World War II, and interning them at least 500 miles inland.

● 1942 - Lucien Barbedette (1890-1942) dies, Luxeuil-the-Baths. French professor, anarchist.

● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Army encircles the troops of Paulus. The Germans surrender.

● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.

● 1944 - 1st black reporter accredited to the White House, Harry McAlpin

● 1944 - U-762 sunk off Ireland

● 1945 - Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald

● 1946 - Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties

● 1949 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary sentenced for treason to life in prison.

● 1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Sin in a Christian makes God seem distant, deaf. In the body, sin saps animation, as cancer. In the soul, sin stifles the affections; as corrosion in the spirit, sin solidifies the attitudes, as a callous.'

● 1952 - New Queen proclaimed for UK; Princess Elizabeth proclaims herself Queen at a ceremony in St James's Palace, London.

● 1952 - Parliament votes to make a "defense contribution," West Germany.

● 1955 - The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.

● 1955 - Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him

● 1956 - Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die

● 1958 - Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia

● 1958 - French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die

● 1958 - Midair collision involves jettisoning of nuclear weapon part into ocean near Savannah, Georgia. The unexploded weapon was never recovered.

● 1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

● 1960 - Congress opens hearings looking into payola

● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1962 - Charonne massacre. 9 trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.

● 1962 - South Vietnam - U.S. Defense Dept. sets up the Military Defense Command.

● 1963 - Military coup in Iraq topples regime of Abdel Karim Kassem.

● 1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.

● 1963 - 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)

● 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1964 - Representative Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

● 1965 - Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84

● 1965 - South Vietnam - "Operation Rolling Thunder" begins using jet bombers inside the country, along with saturation bombing of the North, for strikes against "VC" targets.

● 1967 - Indira Gandhi struck in face by rock thrown at rally, India.

● 1967 - French Diadème D-1C satellite launches into Earth orbit

● 1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1968 - South Carolina highway patrolmen kill four and wound 33 as black students protest at a segregated bowling alley in Orangeburg.

● 1969 - The last weekly issue of the Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands.

● 1969 - Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, México

● 1971 - The NASDAQ stock market index debuts.

● 1971 - National Guard ends four days of black rioting in Wilmington, North Carolina.

● 1971 - Laos - South Vietnamese Army, aided by U.S. air support, launches an attack into the country.

● 1973 - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal

● 1974 - The three-man crew of the Skylab 4 space station returned to Earth after 84 days.

● 1974 - After 84 days in space, the crew of the temporary American space station Skylab return to Earth.

● 1974 - Military coup in Upper Volta.

● 1976 - Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR

● 1977 - Earthquake in San Francisco CA, at 5.0, strongest since 1966

● 1978 - Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait

● 1978 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.

● 1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.

● 1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a plan to re-introduce draft registration.

● 1982 - Guatemala - Founding of the National Patriotic United Front.

● 1983 - Sharon quits after massacre inquiry; Ariel Sharon is removed from office in the Israeli government following a tribunal into the 1982 killings of hundreds of people in two refugee camps.

● 1983 - Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days

● 1984 - Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7

● 1984 - 1st time 8 people in space

● 1984 - 1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh Mccree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world.

● 1985 - Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea

● 1988 - NASA launches DOD-2

● 1988 - Withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan announced by U.S.S.R.

● 1989 - An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal, killing 144.

● 1989 - 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles

● 1991 - Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract.

● 1992 - Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter

● 1993 - General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.

● 1993 - Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die

● 1994 - Police probe MP's suspicious death; Forensic scientists investigate the "suspicious circumstances" of the death of Conservative MP for Eastleigh Stephen Milligan.

● 1995 - 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)

● 1996 - The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

● 1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.

● 1998 - First female ice hockey game in Olympic history: Finland beats Sweden 6-0.

● 1999 - The Senate heard closing arguments in President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.

● 2005 - Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.

● 2006 - Palestinians attack Temporary International Presence in Hebron offices in Hebron; International observers end decade-long presence

BIRTHS

● 412 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487)

● 1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)

● 1291 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)

● 1487 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)

● 1552 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)

● 1577 - Robert Burton, English cleric and writer (d. 1640)

● 1586 - Jacob Praetorius, German composer (d. 1651)

● 1591 - Il Guercino, Italian fresco painter (d. 1666)

● 1649 - Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)

● 1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)

● 1685 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770)

● 1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)

● 1720 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)

● 1804 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)

● 1807 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)

● 1819 - John Ruskin, English author (d. 1900)

● 1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, American Union general (d. 1891)

● 1822 - Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (d. 1894)

● 1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)

● 1834 - Dmitri Mendeleyev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)

● 1847 - Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902)

● 1851 - Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904)

● 1878 - Martin Buber, German philosopher (d. 1965)

● 1880 - Franz Marc, German painter (d. 1916)

● 1883 - Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950)

● 1886 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)

● 1888 - Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)

● 1890 - Claro M. Recto, Filipino nationalist (d. 1960)

● 1893 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)

● 1894 - Ludwig Marcuse, German author and philosopher (d. 1971)

● 1894 - King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982)

● 1902 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)

● 1903 - Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)

● 1906 - Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1968)

● 1911 - Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979)

● 1918 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)

● 1920(21? NYT) - Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)

● 1925 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)

● 1926 - Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)

● 1926 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)

● 1927 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (d. 1976)

● 1930 - Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (d. 1987)

● 1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)

● 1932 - John Williams, American composer and conductor

● 1933 - Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano

● 1933 - Jack Larson, American actor

● 1937 - Manfred Krug, German actor

● 1940 - Ted Koppel, American journalist

● 1941 - Nick Nolte, American actor

● 1941 - Tom Rush, American singer and songwriter

● 1942 - Robert Klein, American comedian

● 1942 - Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (d. 2004)

● 1943 - Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and VC of Karachi University

● 1948 - John Ford Coley, American singer

● 1948 - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (d. 2002)

● 1948 - Dan Seals, American singer

● 1949 - Brooke Adams, American actress

● 1950 - Cristina Ferrare, American former supermodel and actress

● 1951 - Z'EV, American text/sound artist (born Stefan Weisser)

● 1953 - Mary Steenburgen, American actress

● 1953 - Roger Clavet, Quebecois politician

● 1955 - John Fox, Football coach

● 1955 - John Grisham, American writer

● 1960 - Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian hockey player

● 1961 - Sammy Llanas, Rock musician (The BoDeans)

● 1961 - Vince Neil, American musician (Motley Crue)

● 1966 - Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer

● 1966 - Kirk Muller, Canadian hockey player

● 1968 - Gary Coleman, American actor (''Diff'rent Strokes'')

● 1968 - Claudette Pace, Maltese singer

● 1969 - Mary McCormack, Actress

● 1970 - Alonzo Mourning, NBA basketball player

● 1971 - Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier

● 1972 - Paul Wight, American professional wrestler

● 1973 - Keith McDonald, baseball player

● 1974 - Seth Green, American actor ("Austin Powers" movies)

● 1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)

● 1974 - Ulises de la Cruz, Ecuadorian footballer

● 1974 - Jamey Carroll, baseball player

● 1977 - Bridgette Kerkove, American actress

● 1977 - Dave Farrell (Phoenix), American musician (Linkin Park)

● 1977 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist

● 1977 - Mathieu Turcotte, Quebec short track speed skater

● 1979 - Aaron Cook, baseball player

● 1980 - Cameron Muncey, Austrailian guitarist (Jet)

● 1982 - Eric Alexander, American football player

● 1982 - Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor

● 1983 - Jim Verraros, American singer

● 1988 - Ryan Pinkston, Actor

● 1988 - Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer

● 1992 - Karle Warren, Actress (''Judging Amy'')

● 1995 - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress

DEATHS

● 1204 - Alexius IV Angelus, deposed Eastern Roman Emperor (b. circa 1182)

● 1250 - Robert I of Artois, French crusader (b. 1216).

● 1250 - William II Longespee

● 1265 - Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)

● 1296 - King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)

● 1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478)

● 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)

● 1599 - Robert Rollock, Scottish educator

● 1623 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)

● 1696 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)

● 1709 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658)

● 1725 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672)

● 1749 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)

● 1750 - Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685)

● 1768 - George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695)

● 1772 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)

● 1849 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (b. 1800)

● 1849 - François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (b. 1781)

● 1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)

● 1907 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (b. 1854)

● 1910 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)

● 1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)

● 1929 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)

● 1932 - Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, New York City gangster from County Donegal in Ireland.

● 1956 - Connie Mack, baseball manager and executive (b. 1862)

● 1957 - Walther Bothe, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

● 1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)

● 1960 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1880)

● 1963 - George Dolenz, American actor; father of Micky Dolenz (b. 1908)

● 1964 - Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b. 1888)

● 1973 - Max Yasgur, American Woodstock Festival host (b. 1919)

● 1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)

● 1977 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)

● 1982 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (b. 1904)

● 1984 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)

● 1985 - William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1901)

● 1987 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905)

● 1990 - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)

● 1992 - Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist (b. 1924)

● 1993 - N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader

● 1994 - Raymond Scott, American composer (b. 1908)

● 1996 - Del Ennis, baseball player (b. 1925)

● 1998 - Halldór Laxness, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

● 1998 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)

● 1999 - Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919)

● 2000 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (b. 1918)

● 2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)

● 2001 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920)

● 2002 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)

● 2002 - Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936)

● 2004 - Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (b. 1915)

● 2005 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician

● 2005 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948)

● 2006 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Cointha
● St. Cuthman
● St. Dionysius
● St. Elfleda
● St. Jacoba (d. 1239)
● St. Jerome Emiliani
● St. John of Matha, confessor/ransomer of captives
● St. Juventius
● St. Honoratus
● St. Kigwe
● St. Mengold of Huy
● St. Llibio
● St. Nicetius of Besancon
● St. Oncho
● Sts. Paul Lucius, and Cyriacus
● St. Paul of Verdun
● St. Peter Igneus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 26 (Civil Date: February 8)
● St. Xenophon and his wife, St. Mary, and their two sons, Sts. Arcadius and John, of Constantinople.
● St. Symeon "the Ancient" of Mt. Sinai.
● Martyrs Ananias presbyter, Peter, and seven soldiers, in Phoenicia.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Theodore, abbot of the Studion.
● St. Joseph, Bishop of Thessalonica, brother of St. Theodore of the Studion.
● St. Gabriel, abbot at Jerusalem, and St. Ammon, disciple of St. Anthony the Great.
● St. David III, king of Georgia.
● New-Martyr Cyril, Metropolitan of Kazan (1937).
● New Hieromartyr Arcadius (1938).
● New-Martyr Matushka Maria of Gatchina (1930).

● Greek Calendar:
● Two Martyrs of Phrygia.
● St. Clement of Mt. Stirion, monk.
● St. Xenophon of Robika, monk.
● Repose of Metropolitan Gabriel of Novgorod and Petersburg (1801).

● Christian:
● Feast of Bl. Jacoba (Bl. Jacqueline)

● Slovenia - Prešeren Day, the Slovenian cultural holiday.

● Nirvana Day - an annual Buddhist festival.

● Boy Scouts of America - Scout Sunday; The Sunday preceding February 8 is designated as Scout Sunday and the following Saturday is designated as Scout Sabbath.

● Iraq : Ramadan Revolution

● Norway : Narvik Sun Pageant Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( Sunday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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