WHAT HAPPENED ON 8. FEBRUARY
Want to find out what all happened on 8. February

The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. (8. February 1910)

D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. (8. February 1915)

President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House. (8. February 1922)

Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada. (8. February 1924)

World War II: Japan invades Singapore. (8. February 1942)

World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine. (8. February 1945)

The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published. (8. February 1946)

The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced. (8. February 1948)

Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason. (8. February 1949)

The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. (8. February 1950)

Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom. (8. February 1952)

The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants. (8. February 1955)

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues 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". (8. February 1960)

The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (8. February 1960)

Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police. (8. February 1962)

Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration. (8. February 1963)

The First full Color Television program in the World, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena. (8. February 1963)

The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party. (8. February 1963)

Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard. (8. February 1965)

American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina. (8. February 1968)