What happend on 8th February

07.02
09.02
1978

Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcasted on radio for the first time.

1974

Military coup in Upper Volta.

1974

After 84 days in space, the crew of the temporary American space station Skylab return to Earth.

1971

A new stock market index called the Nasdaq debuts.

1969

The last weekly issue of the Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands.

1968

American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the deaths of three college students. (Orangeburg Massacre)

1963

Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.

1960

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

1949

Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary sentenced for treason.

1943

World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal