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February 8

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  • 1802 - Simon Willard patents banjo clock

  • 1837 - 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)

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

  • 1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen

  • 1887 - Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st US ski club

  • 1894 - Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks

  • 1898 - John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Massachusetts)

  • 1910 - Boy Scouts of America incorporated & chartered (William D Boyce-Chicago)

  • 1915 - "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in Louisiana

  • 1918 - "Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published

  • 1922 - Radio arrives at the White House

  • 1924 - 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago

  • 1934 - Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC

  • 1936 - 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota

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

  • 1957 - San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall

  • 1960 - Congress opens hearings looking into payola

  • 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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

  • 1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

  • 1968 - Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg)

  • 1969 - Last edition of Saturday Evening Post

  • 1973 - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal

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

  • 1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

  • 1981 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak

  • 1981 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton

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

  • 1986 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

Baseball

  • 1916 - NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats

  • 1982 - Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey)

  • 1983 - Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino

  • 1984 - A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation

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

Football

  • 1935 - 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL

  • 1963 - AFL's Dallas Texans become Kansas City Chiefs

  • 1996 - NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns' name behind

Basketball

  • 1960 - Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)

  • 1976 - Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Washington-21,130)

  • 1985 - Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5+" basketball shot

  • 1986 - 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition

  • 1987 - 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle

  • 1998 - 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at New York City

Golf

  • 1953 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open

  • 1976 - Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic

  • 1981 - Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic

  • 1987 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic

Hockey

  • 1936 - 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers

  • 1967 - Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)

  • 1975 - Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders

  • 1983 - 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander

  • 1983 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period

  • 1998 - NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics

Horse Racing

  • 1989 - Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days

Entertainment

  • 1926 - Walt Disney Studios forms

  • 1928 - 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York

  • 1928 - Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV

  • 1929 - KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions

  • 1930 - "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1

  • 1947 - KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, Missouri (NBC) begins broadcasting

  • 1952 - "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV

  • 1953 - WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, Virginia (ABC) begins

  • 1958 - KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, Washington (CBS) begins broadcasting

  • 1962 - KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting

  • 1965 - Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"

  • 1967 - Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership

  • 1971 - Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in New York, to become WWF wrestling champ

  • 1974 - "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV

  • 1974 - Ringo releases "You're 16"

  • 1974 - Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run

  • 1990 - "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine

  • 1992 - "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1

  • 1994 - Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car

Trains Planes and Automobiles

  • 1912 - 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Florida

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

  • 1993 - GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires

Weather

  • 1933 - -23 deg F (-31 deg C), Seminole, Texas (state record)

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

Disasters

  • 1923 - Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120

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

  • 1965 - Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach New Jersey, kills 84

  • 1989 - US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die

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

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

Space

  • 1974 - Skylab 4's astronauts land

  • 1984 - 1st time 8 people in space

  • 1988 - NASA launches DOD-2

  • 1992 - Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter

Weddings

  • 1975 - 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea

World War II

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

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

  • 1942 - Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort

  • 1943 - Red Army recaptures Kursk

  • 1944 - U-762 sunk off Ireland

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

World War I

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

Cival War

  • 1861 - Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama

  • 1862 - Battle of Roanoke Island North Carolina, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound

Wild West

  • 1887 - Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)

Crime and Criminals

  • 1925 - Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta

Birthdays

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