February 8

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February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 days remaining until the end of the year (327 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Events

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

1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.

1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.

1347 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.

1575 – Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.

1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

1590 – Luis de Carabajal the younger is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico City.

1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed.

1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

1807 – After two days of bitter fighting, the Russians under Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon.

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

1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.

1865 – Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.

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

1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.

1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.

1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.

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

1904 – Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.

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

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

1922 – United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House.

1925 – National day of Air Force of Iran

1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.

1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.

1942 – World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.

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

1945 -- Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.

1946 – 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.

1948 – The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.

1949 – Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.

1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.

1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.

1955 – 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.

1960 – 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.

1962 – 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.

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

1963 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.

1965 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.

1968 – 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.

1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.

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

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

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

1981 – 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 F.C.

1983 – 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.

1986 – Hinton 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-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.

1989 – Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport (Azores) killing all 144 passengers on board.

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.

1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

2005 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.

2010 – A freak storm in the Hindu Kush 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.

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

2014 – A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.

Births

120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer (d. 175)

412 – Proclus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. 485)

882 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, Egyptian commander and politician, Abbasid Governor of Egypt (d. 946)

1191 – Yaroslav II of Vladimir (d. 1246)

1291 – Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)

1405 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1453)

1487 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)

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

1577 – Robert Burton, English priest, physician, and scholar (d. 1640)

1591 – Guercino, Italian painter (d. 1666)

1685 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian and author (d. 1770)

1700 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1782)

1708 – Václav Jan Kopřiva, Bohemian organist and composer (d. 1789)

1720 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)

1741 – André Grétry, Belgian-French organist and composer (d. 1813)

1762 – Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1820)

1764 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1846)

1792 – Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1873)

1798 – Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (d. 1849)

1807 – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and zoologist (d. 1889)

1817 – Richard S. Ewell, American general (d. 1872)

1819 – John Ruskin, English author, critic, and academic (d. 1900)

1820 – William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (d. 1891)

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

1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892)

1828 – Jules Verne, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1905)

1829 – Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (d. 1902)

1830 – Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1876)

1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1907)

1850 – Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904)

1866 – Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (d. 1947)

1878 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and academic (d. 1965)

1880 – Franz Marc, German soldier and painter (d. 1916)

1880 – Viktor Schwanneke, German actor and director (d. 1931)

1882 – Thomas Selfridge, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1908)

1883 – Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and political scientist (d. 1950)

1884 – Snowy Baker, Australian boxer, rugby player, and actor (d. 1953)

1886 – Charlie Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)

1888 – Edith Evans, English actress (d. 1976)

1890 – Claro M. Recto, Filipino lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1960)

1893 – Ba Maw, Burmese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Burma (d. 1977)

1894 – King Vidor, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1982)

1897 – Zakir Hussain, Indian academic and politician, 3rd president of India (d. 1969)

1899 – Lonnie Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)

1903 – Greta Keller, Austrian-American singer and actress (d. 1977)

1906 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography (d. 1968)

1907 – Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (d. 1959)

1909 – Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (d. 2012)

1911 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and author (d. 1979)

1913 – Betty Field, American actress (d. 1973)

1913 – Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2009)

1914 – Bill Finger, American author and screenwriter, co-created Batman (d. 1974)

1915 – Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1997)

1918 – Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)

1920 – George W. George, American theater, Broadway, and film producer (d. 2007)

1921 – Barney Danson, Canadian colonel and politician, 21st Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 2011)

1921 – Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)

1922 – Audrey Meadows, American actress and banker (d. 1996)

1925 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 2001)

1926 – Neal Cassady, American author and poet (d. 1968)

1926 – Birgitte Reimer, Danish film actress

1929 – Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958)

1929 – Claude Rich, French actor and screenwriter

1930 – Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-American actor and director (d. 1987)

1930 – Arlan Stangeland, American farmer and politician (d. 2013)

1931 – James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)

1932 – Cliff Allison, English race car driver and businessman (d. 2005)

1932 – John Williams, American pianist, composer, and conductor

1933 – Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano

1937 – Joe Raposo, American pianist and composer (d. 1989)

1937 – Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (d. 2016)

1939 – Jose Maria Sison, Filipino activist and theorist

1940 – Ted Koppel, English-American journalist

1941 – Nick Nolte, American actor and producer

1941 – Tom Rush, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1941 – Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)

1942 – Robert Klein, American comedian, actor, and singer

1942 – Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2004)

1943 – Creed Bratton, American actor

1943 – Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic

1944 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (d. 2014)

1944 – Tony Minson, English virologist and academic

1944 – Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian photographer and journalist

1947 – Kerrie Biddell, Australian singer and pianist (d. 2014)

1947 – J. Richard Gott, American astronomer and academic

1948 – Dan Seals, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)

1949 – Brooke Adams, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

1949 – Niels Arestrup, French actor, director, and screenwriter

1950 – Cristina Ferrare, American model and actress

1952 – Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2014)

1953 – Mary Steenburgen, American actress

1954 – Joe Maddon, American baseball coach and manager

1955 – John Grisham, American lawyer and author

1955 – Jim Neidhart, American wrestler

1956 – Marques Johnson, American basketball player and sportscaster

1956 – Dave Meros, American bass player

1958 – Sherri Martel, American wrestler and manager (d. 2007)

1958 – Marina Silva, Brazilian environmentalist and politician

1958 – Karine Chemla, French historian of mathematics and sinologist

1959 – Heinz Gunthardt, Swiss tennis player

1959 – Andrew Hoy, Australian equestrian rider

1959 – Mauricio Macri, Argentinian businessman and politician, President of Argentina

1960 – Benigno Aquino III, Filipino politician, 15th President of the Philippines

1960 – Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian ice hockey player

1960 – Stuart Hamm, American bass player

1961 – Vince Neil, American singer-songwriter and actor

1962 – Daniel Levy, English businessman

1963 – Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer and politician

1963 – Joshua Kadison, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1964 – Trinny Woodall, English fashion designer and author

1965 – Dicky Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer

1965 – Miguel Pardeza, Spanish footballer

1966 – Alex Antonitsch, Austrian tennis player

1966 – Bruno Labbadia, German footballer and manager

1966 – Sarah Montague, English journalist and radio host

1966 – Kirk Muller, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1966 – Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer and manager

1968 – Gary Coleman, American actor (d. 2010)

1969 – Pauly Fuemana, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)

1969 – Mary Robinette Kowal, American puppeteer and author

1969 – Mary McCormack, American actress and producer

1970 – John Filan, Australian footballer and coach

1970 – Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player

1971 – Aidy Boothroyd, English footballer and manager

1971 – Mika Karppinen, Swedish-Finnish drummer and songwriter

1972 – Big Show, American wrestler, actor

1974 – Seth Green, American actor, voice artist, comedian, producer, writer, and director

1976 – Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer

1976 – Nicolas Vouilloz, French race car driver and biker

1977 – Barry Hall, Australian footballer

1977 – Roman Kostomarov, Russian ice dancer

1978 – Mick de Brenni, Australian politician

1979 – Aaron Cook, American baseball player

1981 – Steve Gohouri, Ivorian footballer (d. 2015)

1981 – Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer

1983 – Jermaine Anderson, Canadian basketball player

1983 – Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player

1983 – Jim Verraros, American singer and actor

1984 – Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Canadian skier

1984 – Cecily Strong, American actress

1984 – Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player

1985 – Petra Cetkovská, Czech tennis player

1985 – Jeremy Davis, American bass player and songwriter

1987 – Javi García, Spanish footballer

1987 – Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater

1988 – Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer

1989 – Zac Guildford, New Zealand rugby player

1989 – Courtney Vandersloot, American basketball player

1991 – Aristidis Soiledis, Greek footballer

1991 – Nam Woo-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, actor

1991 – Roberto Soriano, Italian footballer

1992 – Carl Jenkinson, English-Finnish footballer

1992 – Misaki Matsutomo, Japanese badminton player

1994 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter

1998 – Orlando Luz, Brazilian tennis player

Deaths

538 – Severus of Antioch, patriarch of Antioch

1135 – Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily (b.c. 1100)

1204 – Alexios IV Angelos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1182)

1250 – Robert I, Count of Artois (b. 1216)

1250 – William II Longespée, English martyr (b. 1212)

1265 – Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)

1296 – Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)

1314 – Helen of Anjou, queen of Serbia (b. 1236)

1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)

1599 – Robert Rollock, Scottish theologian and academic (b. 1555)

1676 – Alexis of Russia (b. 1629)

1623 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (b. 1546)

1640 – Murad IV, Ottoman sultan (b. 1612)

1696 – Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)

1709 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1658)

1725 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (b. 1672)

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

1750 – Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet (b. 1685)

1768 – George Dance the Elder, English architect, designed St Leonard's and St Botolph's Aldgate (b. 1695)

1772 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (b. 1719)

1849 – François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (b. 1781)

1849 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer (b. 1800)

1856 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and academic (b. 1773)

1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)

1910 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)

1915 – François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)

1921 – George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)

1921 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)

1932 – Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)

1935 – Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)

1936 – Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)

1945 – Italo Santelli, Italian fencer and coach (b. 1866)

1956 – Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (b. 1862)

1957 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

1957 – John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)

1960 – J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (b. 1911)

1960 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)

1963 – George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (b. 1908)

1964 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)

1968 – Maurice Maillot, French actor (b. 1906)

1972 – Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1905)

1975 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)

1977 – Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist (b. 1901)

1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

1980 – Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1936)

1982 – John Hay Whitney, American financier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1904)

1985 – William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Swallow Sidecar Company (b. 1901)

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

1990 – Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)

1992 – Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (b. 1918)

1992 – Denny Wright, British guitarist (b. 1924)

1994 – Raymond Scott, American pianist and composer (b. 1908)

1996 – Del Ennis, American baseball player (b. 1925)

1997 – Corey Scott, American motorcycle stunt rider (b. 1968)

1998 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

1998 – Enoch Powell, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Health (b. 1912)

1998 – Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)

1999 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British novelist and philosopher (b. 1919)

2000 – Sid Abel, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1918)

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

2001 – Ivo Caprino, Norwegian director and screenwriter (b. 1920)

2002 – Ong Teng Cheong, Singaporean architect and politician, 5th President of Singapore (b. 1936)

2004 – Julius Schwartz, American journalist and author (b. 1915)

2005 – A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan sailor and politician (b. 1944)

2005 – Keith Knudsen, American singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1948)

2006 – Elton Dean, English saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1945)

2006 – Thierry Fortineau, French actor (b. 1953)

2006 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)

2007 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (b. 1967)

2007 – Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1918)

2010 – John Murtha, American colonel and politician (b. 1932)

2011 – Tony Malinosky, American baseball player and soldier (b. 1909)

2012 – Wando, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1945)

2012 – Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author (b. 1912)

2012 – Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentinian singer-songwriter (b. 1950)

2013 – Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (b. 1918)

2013 – James DePreist, American conductor and educator (b. 1936)

2013 – Maureen Dragone, American journalist and author (b. 1920)

2014 – Els Borst, Dutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1932)

2014 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1988)

2014 – Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (b. 1938)

2015 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (b. 1939)

2015 – Andrew Rosenfeld, English businessman, co-founded Minerva (b. 1962)

2015 – Müzeyyen Senar, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1918)

2016 – Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914)

2016 – Nida Fazli, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1938)

2016 – Margaret Forster, English historian, author, and critic (b. 1938)

2016 – Roy Señeres, Filipino businessman, lawyer, and politician (b. 1947)

2016 – Violette Verdy, French ballerina (b. 1933)

2017 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1933)

2017 – Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, English socialite, television presenter, model, and charity patron (b. 1971)

2017 – Tom Raworth, English poet (b. 1938)

2017 – Alan Simpson, English scriptwriter (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Meingold of Huy

February 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Earliest day on which Feast of Orthodoxy can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated 42 days before Easter. (Orthodoxy)

Parinirvana Day (some Mahayana Buddhism traditions, most celebrate on February 15)

Prešeren Day (Slovenia)

Propose Day

References

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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

References