436 Historic Events for February 8
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| 1921 |
Birth |
Hoot Evers, baseball player
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| 1922 |
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Radio arrives at the White House
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| 1922 |
Birth |
Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster
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| 1923 |
Birth |
Andrew MacElhone, bar owner
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| 1923 |
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German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
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| 1923 |
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Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
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| 1924 |
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1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chic
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| 1924 |
Death |
Gee John, US mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies
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| 1924 |
Birth |
Audrey Meadows, Wu Chang China, actress (Alice-Honeymooners)
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| 1924 |
Birth |
Joe Black, baseball player
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| 1925 |
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Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
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| 1925 |
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Kaufman and Berlin's "cocoanuts," premieres in NYC
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| 1925 |
Birth |
Raimondo d'Inzeo, It, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 silver/3 bronze-1948-76)
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| 1925 |
Birth |
Alvin Brehm, composer
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| 1925 |
Birth |
Jack Lemmon, Boston Mass, actor (Days of Wine and Roses, Missing)
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| 1926 |
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Sean O'Casey's "Plough and Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
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| 1926 |
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German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
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| 1926 |
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Walt Disney Studios forms
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| 1927 |
Birth |
Stanley Baker, Ferndale Wales, actor (Concrete Jungle, Zorro, Zulu)
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| 1927 |
Birth |
John T Myers, (Rep-R-IN, 1967- )
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| 1927 |
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Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
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| 1927 |
Birth |
Zdenek Zouhar, composer
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| 1928 |
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1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY
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| 1928 |
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Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
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| 1928 |
Birth |
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer
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