February 8th

The February 8th is the 39e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar .

Events

5th century

6th century

  • 590 : When the pope Pélage II is carried by the plague, Gregoire Ier is elected pope, against his liking, by the unanimous acclamation of the clergy and the people.

13th century

  • 1250 : Capture Louis IX by the Mamelouks in Mansourah.

15th century

16th century

  • 1587 : Execution of Marie Stuart.

17th century

  • 1663 : Louis XIV creates the Académie of painting.

18th century

  • 1798 : The Directoire imposes a Constitution on the Swiss cantons.

19th century

  • 1808 : The Minister of Finances of Napoleon, the count Mollien, decides that the funds allocated with the service of the République of the Seven-Islands will be dispatched with Corfou each month since Florence in the shape of 250.000 Francs out of gold.

  • 1815 : Vienna: For the first time, an international diplomatic conference discusses officially the draft of the Blacks and slavery.

  • 1833 : In Greece, a royal decree restores more the hurdy-gurdy currency of the world, the Drachme born towards 660 - 650 before JC.

  • 1861 :

    • Creation of the States confederated of America.
    • the urban middle-class founds the Parti the progress , of which the goal is the unit of the Germany under Prussian direction.

  • 1863 : Prussia: To face the Polish revolt, the Prussia and the Russia sign the convention of Alvensleben , which envisages a reciprocal military aid against the insurrectionists.

  • 1871 : Election of a National Assembly in France. The results give a vast majority to the royalists, all confused tendencies, with 430 elected officials approximately against 200 republicans.

  • 1872 : First of Helped , opera of Verdi, with La Scala of Milan.

  • 1873 : The Tribunal of the conflicts returns the Arrêt Blanco, base of the Administrative law French.

  • 1879 : Sandford Flemming proposes to divide the world of 24 equal time zones and recommends the one hour adoption normal universal.

  • 1892 : Saint-Etienne: Opening of the first constitutive Congress to the Federation of the Labor markets .

20th century

  • 1904 : Port-Arthur by the Japanese attacks: beginning of the war Russo-Japanese woman.

  • 1908 : Creation of the first cinematographic company of publicity: " Publicity animée" .

  • 1910 : Creation of the Servant boys Scouts of America.

  • 1914 : Germany: On board a Biplane , the aviator Karl Ingold establishes a new record of duration of flight: it holds sixteen hours and twenty minutes in the airs.

  • 1919 : first air commercial connection Toussus-the-Noble with Kenley , close to London. It is about a twin-engine Farman F60 Goliath which flies at a hundred and fifty kilometers/hour to the maximum.

  • 1930 : the Vatican: Indictment against the persecution of the Christian in Soviet Union.

  • 1937 : The Franquistes take Malaga.

  • 1948 : End of the Ve Winter Olympics to St Moritz.

  • 1949 : The Eire is declared in impossibility of adhering to NATO, as long as the Ireland remains divided.

  • 1951 : Gertrude Levandowski leaves the operating room suite with Chicago, after 96 H of operation, world records from which it would have occurred.

  • 1958 : French aviation bombards the village Sakhiet Sidi Youssef to fight against the FLN (Front of national release of Algérie, for independence).

  • 1964 : Michel Jazy carries the world records of the 3.000 m with 7 ' 57" 2.

  • 1968 :

    • American has fun to spread Napalm with the short-nap cloth of the ground on the town of Ben Tree , in the delta of the Mekong and thus massacres a whole population.
    • the Italian students occupy all the universities of Naples.

  • 1975 : Soviet Cosmonautes undertake a drive with the Americans, for an orbital rendezvous between Soyuz and Apollo.

  • 1983 : The Israeli board of inquiry into the massacres of the Palestinian camps of Sabred and Chatila, to Beirut, recommends the resignation of the Israeli Minister for Defense, the general Ariel Sharon.

  • 1987 : Violent one engagements between Shiite Fedayin Palestinian and militiamans around two refugee camps, with Beirut.

  • 1990 : GDR recognizes for the first time the role of the German people in the attempt at extermination of the Juifs of Europe.

  • 1992 :

    • Opening of the XVIe Winter Olympics to Albertville.
    • Heike Henkel increases the female world records indoor of the high jump to 2 m 07.

  • 1993 : The crash landing of an airliner chartered by Iran Air Turns against an military apparatus Soukhoï, keep silent 132 passengers and team members of the plane, the pilot and the copilot of the military aircraft.

  • 1994 : A headstock manufactured at " Kammer and Reinhardt " in 1909 is sold with the biddings 300.000 $ at Sotheby' S.

  • 1997 : San Jorge (Panama) is failed on the Uruguyan coast with a cargo of 53.000 tons crude.

  • 1999 : Farmers invade and ransack, with Paris, the buildings of the National school of administration (ENA) and of the Department of the Environment of which the office of the minister Dominique Voynet.

  • 2000 : The National Assembly adopts in third reading the bills on the office plurality of the electoral mandates.

21e century

  • 2001 : In the book “ the dirty war ”, lieutenant Habib Souaïdia affirms that the civil war of Algérie made a hundred and fifty thousand died and thirty thousand wounded since 1992.

  • 2002 :

    • the chief of the Islamic Group armed (GIA), Antar Zouabri, is killed during a fixing with the Algerian security forces with Boufarik, 25km in the south of Algiers.
    • Opening ceremony of the XIXe Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City.

  • 2004 : Sebastien Loeb gains the Rallye of Sweden. For 54 years, only of Scandinavian had gained this test.

  • 2005 :

    • the navigatrice Ellen MacArthur buckles the round the world tour with the veil as a recluse and without stopover in record time 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes and 33 seconds, that is to say 1 day 8 hours 35 minutes 49 seconds in advance on the preceding record of Francis Joyon.
    • Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and have chaired it Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas engage, at the time of the top of Charm el-Cheikh (Egypt), to put an end to mutual violences in order to start again the peace process in the dead end for four years.

  • 2006 :
    • In Thailand, 400 parachutists celebrate the 60e birthday of the king Bhumibol Adulyadej by establishing new world records of the greatest training of parachustists. The figure carried out by the jumpers represents a gigantic snowflake.
    • Steve Fossett takes off of Florida for accomplished a complete round the world tour by the East with 13.000 meters of altitude and to establish new world records; that of the longest non-stop flight on board a balloon: 42.450 km.

  • 2007 : the Middle East: the Hamas and the Fatah sign a Accord on a Palestinian government of national union with Mecque to put an end to the Affrontements interpalestiniens and the re-establishment of the suspended international assistance.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Festivals

Jackie, Jacotte, Jacoumeto, Jacquemine, Jacquette, Jacquine, Jacquotte, Jakeza, Jamila, Jaqueline

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Dorothée de Césarée date principal February 6th
  • Cuthman de Steninges († 889)
  • Jacut de Landoac (5th century), abbot of Landoac.
  • Meingold of Liege († 892) penitent and martyr.
  • Paul de Verdun († 649), bishop.
  • Fifth († 249)
  • Theodore Stratilate (4th century) (Eastern date)
  • Zacharie (prophet) (VI E)

Catholic saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Holy Sabas II of Serbia (1271), monk with the Mount Athos, archbishop of Pec and nephew of saint Sabas Ier of Serbia.

See too

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