436 Historic Events for February 8
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| 1911 |
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US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras
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| 1911 |
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Anne Aitken, [nee Hopkins], Chicago, co-found (Diamond Sangha)
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| 1911 |
Birth |
Elizabeth Bishop, US poet (North and South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956)
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| 1911 |
Birth |
Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer
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| 1911 |
Death |
Gustaf Fr”ding, Swedish poet (Grabst„nk), dies at 50
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| 1912 |
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1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
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| 1912 |
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Simon Jurovsky, composer
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| 1913 |
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John Grandy, Brits RAF-marshal
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| 1913 |
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Betty Field, Boston MA, actress (Kings Row, Bus Stop)
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| 1914 |
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Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Bert Haas, baseball player
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| 1914 |
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General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
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| 1915 |
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"Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
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| 1915 |
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Lambros Georges Guetary Worloou, singer
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| 1916 |
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NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25› seats
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| 1916 |
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French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
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| 1918 |
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"Stars and Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
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| 1918 |
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Lord Maxd Rayne, English broker/multi-millionaire
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| 1918 |
Birth |
John Intoxication, resistance fighter
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| 1919 |
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Buddy Morrow, orch leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
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| 1920 |
Birth |
Buddy Blattner, baseball player
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| 1920 |
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Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
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| 1920 |
Birth |
Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
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| 1920 |
Death |
Richard Dehmel, writer, dies at 56
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| 1921 |
Death |
Pjotr A Kropotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist, dies at 78
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