{"id":3114,"date":"2019-02-08T04:17:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2019-05-31T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:31:01","slug":"history-of-8-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-8-february\/","title":{"rendered":"History Of 8 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History Of 8 February<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1960\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an\u00a0Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the\u00a0House of Windsor and that her descendants will take the name\u00a0Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1962\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of\u00a0Nazi\u00a0collaborator\u00a0Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris\u00a0Prefecture of Police.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1963\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to\u00a0Cuba\u00a0are made illegal by the\u00a0John F. Kennedy\u00a0administration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1963<\/strong> \u2013 The regime of\u00a0Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General\u00a0Abd al-Karim Qasim\u00a0is\u00a0overthrown\u00a0by the\u00a0Ba&#8217;ath Party.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1965\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Eastern Air Lines Flight 663\u00a0crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1968\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0American civil rights movement: The\u00a0Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from\u00a0South Carolina State University\u00a0who are protesting\u00a0racial segregation\u00a0at the town&#8217;s only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in\u00a0Orangeburg, South Carolina.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1971\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0NASDAQ\u00a0stock market index\u00a0opens for the first time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1971<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0South Vietnamese ground troops\u00a0launch an incursion\u00a0into\u00a0Laos\u00a0to try to cut off the\u00a0Ho Chi Minh trail\u00a0and stop\u00a0communist infiltration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1974\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 After 84 days in\u00a0space, the crew of\u00a0Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American\u00a0space station\u00a0Skylab, returns to Earth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1978<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Proceedings of the\u00a0United States Senate\u00a0are broadcast on radio for the first time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Twenty-one\u00a0association football\u00a0spectators are\u00a0trampled to death\u00a0at\u00a0Karaiskakis Stadium\u00a0in Neo\u00a0Faliro, Greece, after a football match between\u00a0Olympiacos F.C.\u00a0and\u00a0AEK Athens F.C.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0Melbourne dust storm\u00a0hits Australia&#8217;s second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 meters (1,050\u00a0ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-M\u00e9gantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Independent Air Flight 1851\u00a0strikes\u00a0Pico Alto\u00a0mountain while on approach to\u00a0Santa Maria Airport (Azores)\u00a0killing all 144 passengers on board.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0General Motors\u00a0sues\u00a0NBC\u00a0after\u00a0<i>Dateline NBC<\/i>\u00a0allegedly 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0U.S. Congress\u00a0passes the\u00a0Communications Decency Act.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP\u00a0A. Chandranehru\u00a0die of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A freak storm in the\u00a0Hindu Kush\u00a0mountains of\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0triggers a series of at least\u00a036 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0A blizzard\u00a0disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A\u00a0hotel fire\u00a0in\u00a0Medina, Saudi Arabia\u00a0kills 15\u00a0Egyptian\u00a0pilgrims with 130 others injured.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1970\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0John Filan, Australian footballer, and coach<\/li>\n<li><strong>1970<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Stephanie Courtney, American actress, and comedian<sup id=\"cite_ref-35\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1971\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Aidy Boothroyd, English footballer, and manager<\/li>\n<li><strong>1971<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mika Karppinen, Swedish-Finnish drummer and songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1972\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Big Show, American wrestler, actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1974\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Seth Green, American actor, voice artist, comedian, producer, writer, and director<\/li>\n<li><strong>1976\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1976<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nicolas Vouilloz, French race car driver and biker<\/li>\n<li><strong>1977\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Roman Kostomarov, Russian ice dancer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1978\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Mick de Brennan, Australian politician<\/li>\n<li><strong>1979\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Aaron Cook, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1980\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0William Jackson Harper, American actor<sup id=\"cite_ref-38\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1981\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Steve Gohouri, Ivorian footballer (d. 2015)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Jermaine Anderson, Canadian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jim Verraros, American singer and actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Canadian skier<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Cecily Strong, American actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013 Petra Cetkovsk\u00e1, a Czech tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jeremy Davis, American bass player, and songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Javi Garc\u00eda, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Zac Guildford, New Zealand rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Julio Jones, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Courtney Vandersloot, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Emily Scarratt, English rugby union player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Klay Thompson, American professional basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Aristides Soiledis, Greek footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Roberto Soriano, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nam Woo-Hyun, South Korean singer and actor with the boy band Infinite.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Bruno Martins Indi, Portuguese-Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Carl Jenkinson, English-Finnish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Hakan \u00c7alhano\u011flu, Turkish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Joshua Kimmich, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Kenedy, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Of 8 February 1960\u00a0\u2013 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an\u00a0Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the\u00a0House of Windsor and that her descendants will take the name\u00a0Mountbatten-Windsor. 1962\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Charonne massacre. 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