WHAT HAPPENED ON 8. FEBRUARY
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Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico. (8. February 1969)

The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time. (8. February 1971)

South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration. (8. February 1971)

After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth. (8. February 1974)

Military coup in Upper Volta. (8. February 1974)

Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time. (8. February 1978)

Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC. (8. February 1981)

The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night. (8. February 1983)

The Hinton train collision: 23 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-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people. (8. February 1986)

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. (8. February 1993)

The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act. (8. February 1996)

The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place. (8. February 1996)

A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers. (8. February 2010)

A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. (8. February 2013)