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February 8, 2014 / 8 Adar I 5774 / Shavuah Tov
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Events
- 1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
- 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
- 1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
- 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house inEdinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
- 1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
- 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
- 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
- 1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
- 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaff dies 4 days later.
- 1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- 1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
- 1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
Births
- 1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss scholar (d. 1582)
- 1609 – John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
- 1696 – Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (d. 1765)
- 1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
- 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
- 1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
- 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
- 1906 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
- 1914 – Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (d. 2001)
- 1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1941 – Michael Apted, English director and producer
- 1944 – Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1992)
- 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
- 1964 – Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
- 1999 – Tiffany Espensen, Chinese-American actress
Deaths
- 1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
- 1162 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
- 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
- 1758 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
- 1992 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
- 1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
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