What happend on 8th February

07.02
09.02
2005

Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.

2002

Opening ceremony of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.

2001

Disney's California Adventure, the Disneyland Resort's second park in its 46-year history, opens.

1996

The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

1993

General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settled the lawsuit the next day.

1989

An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal killing 144.

1985

After 6-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air.

1984

1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo.

1983

Irish racehorse Shergar was kidnapped in County Kildare. The fate of the horse is still unknown.

1979

Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the People?s Republic of the Congo for the first time.