What happend on 8th February

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09.02
1943

World War II: Battle of Kursk

1936

Jay Berwanger becomes the first person to be selected by a National Football League draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles.

1924

Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.

1922

President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.

1918

The Stars and Stripes newspaper publishes for the first time.

1915

D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

1910

The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.

1904

Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.

1900

British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.

1887

The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.