February 8, 2004 46th Grammy Awards（格莱美奖） , Coldplay, Outkast, Richard Marx, Luther Vandross, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake win major awards

February 8, 1998 1st female ice hockey（冰上曲棍球） game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0

February 8, 1998 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at New York City

February 8, 1998 NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate（容纳，适应） the Olympics

February 8, 1996 NFL and Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise（经销权，管辖权） to Balt but he had to leave the Browns' name behind

February 8, 1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)

February 8, 1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car

February 8, 1994 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets（小门，三柱门） with 432

February 8, 1994 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm（枪炮，火器）

February 8, 1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die

February 8, 1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to（易于） fires

February 8, 1992 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France

February 8, 1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter

February 8, 1991 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract

February 8, 1990 David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London

February 8, 1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to（归因于） him by a gay magazine

February 8, 1989 5cm of snow falls in outskirts（市郊，郊区） of Los Angeles

February 8, 1989 Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive（连续不断的） winning days

February 8, 1989 U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die

February 8, 1988 NASA launches DOD-2

February 8, 1987 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle

February 8, 1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic

February 8, 1986 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition

February 8, 1986 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

February 8, 1985 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs. Barbados

February 8, 1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5" basketball shot

February 8, 1985 Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)

February 8, 1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea

February 8, 1984 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia（南斯拉夫）

February 8, 1984 1st time 8 people in space

February 8, 1984 A's take Yankees pitcher（投手） Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation

February 8, 1984 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7

February 8, 1983 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander

February 8, 1983 Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino

February 8, 1983 Eric Peters sets transatlantic（横渡大西洋的） sailboat record (E-W)-46 days

February 8, 1983 Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in New York City

February 8, 1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period

February 8, 1983 Champion thoroughbred（受过严格训练的人） Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance

February 8, 1982 Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey)

February 8, 1981 "5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 12 performances

February 8, 1981 "Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 133 performances

February 8, 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic

February 8, 1981 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak

February 8, 1981 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton

February 8, 1979 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

February 8, 1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait

February 8, 1977 Earthquake in San Francisco, at 5.0, strongest since 1966

February 8, 1976 Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR

February 8, 1976 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic

February 8, 1976 Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)

February 8, 1975 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea

February 8, 1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders #p#分页标题#e#

February 8, 1974 "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV

February 8, 1974 Ringo releases "You're 16"

February 8, 1974 Skylab 4's astronauts land

February 8, 1974 Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run

February 8, 1973 Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in New York City

February 8, 1973 Mushtaq and Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs. NZ

February 8, 1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal

February 8, 1972 Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame

February 8, 1971 Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ

February 8, 1971 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos

February 8, 1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post

February 8, 1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico

February 8, 1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg)

February 8, 1967 Longest losing streak（连败场数） in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)

February 8, 1967 Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership

February 8, 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

February 8, 1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84

February 8, 1965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"

February 8, 1964 Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London

February 8, 1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

February 8, 1963 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)

February 8, 1963 AFL's Dallas Texans become Kansas City Chiefs

February 8, 1963 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

February 8, 1962 KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting

February 8, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

February 8, 1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)

February 8, 1958 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia

February 8, 1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die

February 8, 1958 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting

February 8, 1957 San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile（流动的汽车图书馆） initiated in front of City Hall

February 8, 1956 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die

February 8, 1955 Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him

February 8, 1953 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open

February 8, 1953 WLVirginia (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, Virginia (ABC) begins

February 8, 1952 "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV

February 8, 1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison

February 8, 1948 5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland

February 8, 1947 Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)

February 8, 1947 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St. Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting

February 8, 1946 Bela Bartoks 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Phila

February 8, 1946 Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties

February 8, 1945 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald

February 8, 1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin

February 8, 1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland

February 8, 1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk

February 8, 1942 Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles

February 8, 1942 Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse（全体地，一同地） so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort

February 8, 1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore

February 8, 1941 NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda（宣传） on Dutch radio

February 8, 1940 Lewis and Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show," premieres in New York City

February 8, 1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto（犹太人区，贫民区） established by Nazis in Poland

February 8, 1937 Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings," premieres in New York City

February 8, 1936 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger

February 8, 1936 1st ski jumping tournament（锦标赛，联赛） , Red Wing, Minnesota

February 8, 1936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers

February 8, 1936 Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party

February 8, 1935 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL #p#分页标题#e#

February 8, 1934 Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, D.C.

February 8, 1934 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government

February 8, 1933 -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Seminole, Texas (state record)

February 8, 1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247

February 8, 1931 Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000

February 8, 1930 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1

February 8, 1929 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions

February 8, 1928 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York

February 8, 1928 Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV

February 8, 1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed

February 8, 1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership

February 8, 1926 Sean O'Casey's "Plough and Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin

February 8, 1926 Walt Disney Studios forms

February 8, 1925 Kaufman and Berlin's "cocoanuts（椰子，可可豆） ," premieres in New York City

February 8, 1925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta

February 8, 1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago

February 8, 1923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120

February 8, 1923 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily

February 8, 1922 Radio arrives at the White House

February 8, 1920 Swiss men vote against women's suffrage

February 8, 1918 "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published

February 8, 1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed（用鱼雷袭击，破坏） off Syrian coast, kills 374

February 8, 1916 NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cents seats

February 8, 1915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA

February 8, 1914 General Zamon becomes president of Haiti

February 8, 1912 1st eastbound U.S. transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla

February 8, 1911 U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras

February 8, 1911 Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in New York City

February 8, 1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D. Boyce - Chicago)

February 8, 1909 France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco

February 8, 1908 Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth

February 8, 1905 Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people

February 8, 1904 Russo-Japanese War begins

February 8, 1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding and gumming mach (Mass)

February 8, 1896 Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris

February 8, 1896 Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf

February 8, 1895 Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg

February 8, 1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise（剥夺公民权） blacks

February 8, 1889 Flood ravages（毁坏，破坏） Dutch coast

February 8, 1887 Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st U.S. ski club

February 8, 1887 Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)

February 8, 1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen

February 8, 1865 1st black major in U.S. Army, Martin Robinson Delany

February 8, 1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound

February 8, 1862 Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London

February 8, 1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama

February 8, 1837 1st Vice President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)

February 8, 1809 Franz I of Austria declares war on France

February 8, 1807 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau

February 8, 1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock

February 8, 1776 Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg

February 8, 1750 Minor earthquake in London

February 8, 1744 French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon

February 8, 1743 Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth

February 8, 1735 1st opera in U.S. "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC

February 8, 1693 William and Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US

February 8, 1690 French and Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire

February 8, 1690 Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal

February 8, 1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London

February 8, 1622 King James I disbands the English parliament

February 8, 1600 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death

February 8, 1575 University of Leiden Netherlands opens #p#分页标题#e#

February 8, 1526 Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die

February 8, 421 Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman emp