8 February

Notable Births

I.N

b. 2001

South Korean singer (born 2001)

Alessia Russo

b. 1999

English footballer (born 1999)

Rui Hachimura

b. 1998

Japanese basketball player (born 1998)

Kathryn Newton

b. 1997

American actress (born 1997)

Kenedy (footballer)

b. 1996

Brazilian footballer (born 1996)

Leighton Vander Esch

b. 1996

American football player (born 1996)

Joshua Kimmich

b. 1995

German footballer (born 1995)

Hakan Çalhanoğlu

b. 1994

Turkish footballer (born 1994)

Nikki Yanofsky

b. 1994

Canadian singer (born 1994)

Bruno Martins Indi

b. 1992

Dutch footballer (born 1992)

Nam Woo-hyun

b. 1991

South Korean singer and actor (born 1991)

Bethany Hamilton

b. 1990

American surfer (born 1990)

Klay Thompson

b. 1990

American basketball player (born 1990)

Zac Guildford

b. 1989

New Zealand rugby union player

JaJuan Johnson

b. 1989

American basketball player (born 1989)

Julio Jones

b. 1989

American football player (born 1989)

Brendan Smith (ice hockey)

b. 1989

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1989)

Courtney Vandersloot

b. 1989

American basketball player (born 1989)

Javi García

b. 1987

Spanish footballer (born 1987)

Gary Coleman

b. 1968

American actor (1968–2010)

Notable Deaths

Dick Jauron

d. 2025

American football player and coach (1950–2025)

Sam Nujoma

d. 2025

President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005

Gyalo Thondup

d. 2025

Brother of the 14th Dalai Lama (1928–2025)

Marty Schottenheimer

d. 2021

American football player and coach (1943–2021)

Mary Wilson (singer)

d. 2021

American singer (1944–2021)

Robert Conrad

d. 2020

American actor (1935–2020)

Peter Mansfield

d. 2017

English physicist (1933–2017)

Rina Matsuno

d. 2017

Musical artist

Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)

d. 2017

British screenwriter (1929–2017)

Amelia Bence

d. 2016

Argentine actress (1914–2016)

Nida Fazli

d. 2016

Indian poet, lyricist and dialogue writer (1938–2016)

Margaret Forster

d. 2016

English novelist and biographer (1938–2016)

Violette Verdy

d. 2016

French ballet dancer, choreographer, and professor

Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde

d. 2015

Finnish ufologist (1939–2015)

Els Borst

d. 2014

Dutch politician (1932–2014)

Maicon (footballer, born May 1988)

d. 2014

Brazilian footballer (1988–2014)

Nancy Holt

d. 2014

American artist (1938–2014)

Giovanni Cheli

d. 2013

James DePreist

d. 2013

American conductor (1936–2013)

Maureen Dragone

d. 2013

American journalist and author

On This Day in History

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2023

Two children are killed and six others are injured when a bus crashes into a daycare centre in Laval, Quebec, Canada. The driver is arrested and charged with homicide and dangerous driving.

Laval daycare bus crash

2020

A soldier opens fire in a military camp and a shopping center in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, killing 29 people and injuring 58 others before being shot dead by police the next day. It is considered the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history.

Nakhon Ratchasima shootings

2014

A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia, kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.

2014 Medina hotel fire

2013

A blizzard kills at least 18 and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.

February 2013 North American blizzard

2010

Over 2 miles (3.2 km) of road are buried after a storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of avalanches, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 others.

Hindu Kush

1993

An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 and an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 collide mid-air near Qods, Iran, killing all 133 people on board both aircraft.

Iran Airtour

1989

Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores, killing all 144 passengers on board.

Independent Air Flight 1851

1986

Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, making it one of the worst rail accidents in Canada.

Via Rail

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1983

A dust storm hits Melbourne, resulting in the worst drought on record and severe weather conditions in the city.

1983 Melbourne dust storm

1974

The crew of Skylab 4, the last mission to visit the American space station Skylab, returns to Earth after 84 days in space.

Skylab 4

1971

South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration into the country.

Army of the Republic of Vietnam

1968

American civil rights movement: An attack on Black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation leaves three dead and 28 injured in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Civil rights movement

1965

Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing all 84 people on board.

Eastern Air Lines Flight 663

1963

The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.

Prime Minister of Iraq

1962

Nine protestors are killed at Charonne station, Paris, by French police under the command of ex-Vichy official and Parisian Prefect of Police Maurice Papon.

Charonne subway massacre

1960

Queen Elizabeth II issues an Order-in-Council, proclaiming the House of Windsor and declaring that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.

Elizabeth II