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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8: National Boy Scouts Day: --
An annual recognition of the Boys Scouts and their devotion to
doing good deeds, learning survival skills, and developing moral
foundations through the Boy Scout of America. The Boy Scouts of
America has roots in the British Boy Scouts organization which was
created in 1908 after the success of the book Scouting for Boys by
Robert Baden-Powell. On a foggy day in London an American
newspaperman, William Dickson Boyce, became lost when a Boy Scout
came to his assistance. With the boy's guidance, Boyce arrived at
his destination. When Boyce offered payment for the assistance,
the Boy Scout refused explaining it was a good deed. Boyce was
inspired to organize similar youth groups into one organization.
On February 8, 1910, Boyce filed papers of incorporation, and the
Boy Scouts of America was born. Boy Scouts have had a profound
impact on the United States. Many presidents and other dignitaries
have been Boy Scouts. A total of 181 Astronauts have also been a
part of the Boy Scout program. To celebreat National Boy Scouts
day, recall your time as a Boy Scout and share the lessons you
learned; give a shout-out to a Boy Scout leader; share the skills
you learned from the Boy Scouts with others; volunteer to be a
leader; learn more about the Boys Scouts organization; and use
#NationalBoyScoutsDay to join the conversation on social media.
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8: Opera Day: -- While many of
us would recognize an opera if we heard one, we may not be
well-versed with the definitions and complexities of this musical
genre. Briefly, an opera is a piece of performance art that
combines music with words or dialogues to create a dramatic
enactment of a story. An opera is a combination of acting,
scenery, costumes, and dance. The term 'opera' in Italian means
'work', and the text is called the 'libretto,' which means "small
book." Operas are further classified as opera seria (noble
and serious), opera buffa (comedic), operetta (light opera), and
semi-opera (combining spoken dialogue with masque-like sections).
Opera was born out of the classical music tradition in the West.
It first started in Italy and then spread across Europe to France,
Germany, Russia, and England. Opera was first known to play its
focus on the chorus by recreating dramas from Ancient Greek. The
first season of opera took place in Venice in 1637, becoming a
popular art of entertainment ever since. Since its inception, the
opera art form has evolved and diverged in numerous ways
throughout its history. For much of the 18th century, opera seria,
with its elevated style and virtuoso performances were best-loved
among the Italians. Yet as with all artistic movements, there were
a few who wanted to innovate the existing art form. Mozart is
well-known for his comic operas such as 'The Marriage of Figaro,'
while Verdi is famous for confident, patriotic operas. Wagner was
one of the most influential opera composers who dissolved the
distinct recitatives and arias into "endless melody,"
and developed the idea of the 'Gesamtkunstwerk' (complete artwork)
where he synthesized different art forms into one. Composers in
the 20th century continued to experiment with the art form and
came up with innovative concepts such as atonality and dissonance.
The modern era saw an explosion of musical theater, the modern
rendition of opera. While there are a number of key differences,
some musicals closely resemble opera - for example, 'Les
Miserables,' which has also been adapted into a movie. The genre
has also influenced current entertainment, with soap operas
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8, 1587: #DOTD: #RIP: Mary,
Queen Of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I, Queen Of
Scotland from December 14, 1542 to July 24, 1567 (b. December 8,
1542) #dies, executed by beheading aged 44 at Fotheringhay Castle,
Northamptonshire, England. After an unsuccessful attempt to regain
the throne, she fled southwards seeking the protection of her
first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I Of England. Mary had
previously claimed Elizabeth's throne as her own and was
considered the legitimate sovereign of England by many English
Catholics, including participants in a rebellion known as the
Rising of the North. Perceiving her as a threat, Elizabeth had her
confined in various castles and manor houses in the interior of
England. After eighteen and a half years in custody, Mary was
found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth in 1586. She was
beheaded the following year. At Fotheringhay, on the evening of
the day before, Mary was told she was to be executed in the
morning. She spent the last hours of her life in prayer,
distributing her belongings to her household, and writing her will
and a letter to the King of France. The scaffold that was erected
in the Great Hall was draped in black cloth. It was reached by two
or three steps, and furnished with the block, a cushion for her to
kneel on, and three stools for her and the earls of Shrewsbury and
Kent, who were there to witness the execution. The executioner
Bull and his assistant knelt before her and asked forgiveness, as
it was typical for the executioner to request the pardon of the
one being put to death. Mary replied, "I forgive you with all
my heart, for now, I hope, you shall make an end of all my
troubles." Her servants, Jane Kennedy and Elizabeth Curle,
and the executioners helped Mary remove her outer garments,
revealing a velvet petticoat and a pair of sleeves in crimson
brown, the liturgical colour of martyrdom in the Catholic Church,
with a black satin bodice and black trimmings. As she disrobed
Mary smiled and said she "never had such grooms before ...
nor ever put off her clothes before such a company". She was
blindfolded by Kennedy with a white veil embroidered in gold,
knelt down on the cushion in front of the block on which she
positioned her head, and stretched out her arms. Her last words
were "In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum"
("Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit"). Mary
was not beheaded with a single strike. The first blow missed her
neck and struck the back of her head. The second blow severed the
neck, except for a small bit of sinew, which the executioner cut
through using the axe. Afterwards, he held her head aloft and
declared "God save the Queen." At that moment, the
auburn tresses in his hand turned out to be a wig and the head
fell to the ground, revealing that Mary had very short, grey hair.
Cecil's nephew, who was present at the execution, reported to his
uncle that after her death, "Her lips stirred up and down a
quarter of an hour after her head was cut off" and that a
small dog owned by the queen emerged from hiding among her skirts
- though eye-witness Emanuel Tomascon does not include those
details in his "exhaustive report". Items supposedly
worn or carried by Mary at her execution are of doubtful
provenance; contemporary accounts state that all her clothing, the
block, and everything touched by her blood was burnt in the
fireplace of the Great Hall to obstruct relic hunters. When the
news of the execution reached Elizabeth, she became indignant and
asserted that Davison had disobeyed her instructions not to part
with the warrant and that the Privy Council had acted without her
authority. Elizabeth's vacillation and deliberately vague
instructions gave her plausible deniability to attempt to avoid
the direct stain of Mary's blood. Davison was arrested, thrown
into the Tower of London, and found guilty of misprision. He was
released nineteen months later, after Elizabeth's chief adviser
William Cecil and her principal secretary Francis Walsingham
interceded on his behalf. Mary's request to be buried in France
was refused by Elizabeth. Her body was embalmed and left in a
secure lead coffin until her burial in a Protestant service at
Peterborough Cathedral in late July 1587. Her entrails, removed as
part of the embalming process, were buried secretly within
Fotheringhay Castle. Her body was exhumed in 1612 when her son,
King James VI and I, ordered that she be reinterred in Westminster
Abbey in a chapel opposite the tomb of Elizabeth. In 1867, her
tomb was opened in an attempt to ascertain the resting place of
her son, James I of England; he was ultimately found with Henry
VII instead. Many of her other descendants, including Elizabeth of
Bohemia, Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the children of Anne,
Queen of Great Britain, were interred in her vault. Mary, Queen Of
Scots was born at Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, to King James V and
his French second wife, Mary of Guise. The only surviving
legitimate child of James V of Scotland, she was six days old when
her father died and she acceded to the throne. She spent most of
her childhood in France while Scotland was ruled by regents, and
in 1558, she married the Dauphin of France, Francis. He ascended
the French throne as King Francis II in 1559, and Mary briefly
became queen consort of France, until his death in December 1560.
Widowed, Mary returned to Scotland, arriving in Leith on 19 August
1561. Four years later, she married her first cousin, Henry
Stuart, Lord Darnley, but their union was unhappy. In February
1567, his residence was destroyed by an explosion, and Darnley was
found murdered in the garden. James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell,
was generally believed to have orchestrated Darnley's death, but
he was acquitted of the charge in April 1567, and the following
month he married Mary. Following an uprising against the couple,
Mary was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle. On July 24, 1567, she
was forced to abdicate in favour of James VI, her one-year-old son
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8, 1820: #BOTD: #HBD! William
Tecumseh Sherman, American soldier, businessman, educator, and
author (d. February 14, 1891) is #born in Lancaster, Ohio, near
the banks of the Hocking River. He served as a general in the
Union Army during the American Civil War, for which he received
recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as
well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth"
policies he implemented in conducting total war against the
Confederate States. Sherman began his Civil War career serving in
the First Battle Of Bull Run and Kentucky in 1861. He served under
General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the battles of
forts Henry and Donelson, the Battle Of Shiloh, the campaigns that
led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the
Mississippi River, and the Chattanooga Campaign, which culminated
with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of
Tennessee. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander
in the western theater of the war. He proceeded to lead his troops
to the capture of the city of Atlanta, a military success that
contributed to the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. Sherman's
subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further
undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting. He
accepted the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the
Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida in April 1865, after having been
present at most major military engagements in the western theater.
When Grant assumed the U.S. presidency in 1869, Sherman succeeded
him as Commanding General of the Army, in which capacity he served
from 1869 until 1883. As such, he was responsible for the U.S.
Army's engagement in the Indian Wars over the next 15 years.
Sherman advocated total war against hostile Indians to force them
back onto their reservations. He steadfastly refused to be drawn
into politics and in 1875 published his Memoirs, one of the
best-known first-hand accounts of the Civil War. British military
historian B. H. Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was
"the first modern general". William Tecumseh Sherman
died of pneumonia in New York City at 1:50 PM, six days after his
71st birthday.] President Benjamin Harrison, who served under
Sherman, sent a telegram to Sherman's family and ordered all
national flags to be flown at half staff. On February 19, a
funeral service was held at his home, followed by a military
procession. Joseph E. Johnston, the Confederate officer who had
commanded the resistance to Sherman's troops in Georgia and the
Carolinas, served as a pallbearer in New York City. It was a
bitterly cold day and a friend of Johnston, fearing that the
general might become ill, asked him to put on his hat. Johnston
replied: "If I were in [Sherman's] place, and he were
standing in mine, he would not put on his hat." Johnston did
catch a serious cold and died one month later of pneumonia.
Sherman's body was then transported to St. Louis, where another
service was conducted at a local Catholic church on February 21,
1891. His son, Thomas Ewing Sherman, who was a Jesuit priest,
presided over his father's funeral masses in New York City and in
St. Louis. Former U.S. president and Civil War veteran Rutherford
B. Hayes, who attended both ceremonies, said at the time that
Sherman had been "the most interesting and original character
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8, 1828: #BOTD: #HBD! Jules Verne, sometimes called "The Father Of Science Fiction" (a title that has also been given to Cyrano De Begerac, H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback), French author, poet, and playwright, a major literary figure with a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism, the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare (d. March 24, 1905) is #born Jules Gabriel Verne in the seaport of Nantes, France where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). While ill with chronic diabetes and complications from a stroke which paralyzed his right side, Verne died aged 77 at his 44 Boulevard Longueville (now Boulevard Jules-Verne) home in Amiens, France. He is buried at The Cimetiere De La Madeleine in Amiens. His son, Michel Verne, oversaw the publication of the novels Invasion Of The Sea and The Lighthouse At The End Of The World after Jules's death. The Voyages extraordinaires series continued for several years afterwards at the same rate of two volumes a year. It was later discovered that Michel Verne had made extensive changes in these stories, and the original versions were eventually published at the end of the 20th century by the Jules Verne Society (Societe Jules Verne). In 1919, Michel Verne published The Barsac Mission (French: L'Etonnante Aventure De La Mission Barsac), whose original drafts contained references to Esperanto, a language that his father had been very interested in. In 1989, Verne's great-grandson discovered his ancestor's as-yet-unpublished novel Paris In The Twentieth Century, which was subsequently published in 1994.
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8, 1861: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Confederate
States Of America (CSA) (The Confederate States (C.S.), The
Confederacy): The Provisional Constitution Of The Confederate
States (The Constitution For The Provisional Government Of The
Confederate States Of America): -- The Confederate States Of
America is founded when the The Provisional Constitution Of The
Confederate States, drafted by a committee of twelve
representatives of all seven original states in the CSA --
Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana, who met in Montgomery on February 4, 1961 -- and
appointed by The Provisional Congress on February 5, is formally
adopted, and form its first legislature. Government under this
constitution was superseded by the new Constitution of the
Confederate States with a permanent form of government "organized
on the principles of the United States" on February 22, 1862.
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February 8, 1868: #BOTD: Evangeline
Adams, infamous American astrologer based in New York City, dubbed
"America's first astrological superstar", who ran a
thriving astrological consulting business, gained widespread
notability for successfully defending her astrological pactice in
court, and produced a number of popular books ghostwritten by
Aleister Crowley, including Astrology: Your Place in the Sun
(1927), Astrology: Your Place Among the Stars (1930), and her
autobiography, The Bowl of Heaven (1926), contributor to Aleister
Crowley's own astrological text The General Practice of Astrology"
(d. November 10, 1932) is #born Evangeline Smith Adams in Jersey
City, New Jersey, to a conservative family. Her father died when
she was 15 months old. Before Adams began working as an astrologer
full-time, she became engaged to a Mr. Lord, who was believed to
be her employer. Although she said that she was initially in love
with him, she lost any feelings that she had for him and
subsequently broke the engagement. Thousands of subscribers to her
astrological newsletter followed her advice to invest in stocks
during the run-up to the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It was
towards the end of her career that Adams took to publishing books
and raising her profile within popular media. For most of her
working life, she ran a thriving astrological practice based on
consultation by person or mail. This grew to employ several
assistants and stenographers. For a number of years Adams employed
Crowley as a ghost-writer. Their business relationship eventually
turned into an acrimonious one, which brought copyright issues of
"who really wrote what", with regards to Crowley's
General Principles of Astrology (now settled with the book being
attributed to Crowley but with a recognized contribution by
Adams). Adams was arrested three times in New York City for
fortune telling, in 1911, 1914 and 1923. Although practicing
astrology was not legal at that time, all the cases brought
against her were unsuccessful and the May 1914 trial brought
particular notability due to the judge's acquittal "of all
wrong doing" and praise of her skill, after she gave him an
astrology reading describing the character of his son from his
birth data. Adams was well paid by her clients for her
predictions. She was reputed to successfully predict changes in
the stock market. Nevertheless, Adams had no knowledge of
economics and her predictions were always vague, foretelling
disaster but not specific disasters, predicting that the market
would go up when in fact the country was in a period of remarkable
growth in the stock market. Adams' most infamous failed prediction
was that the "stocks might climb to heaven" a few weeks
before the 1929 crash. While her few successful predictions were
publicized, her misses were largely ignored by those desperate to
believe. Evangeline Adams died of undisclosed causes aged 64 in
Manhattan, New York City. Her Death Certificate has her last name
as Jordan, the family name of her husband was George Edwin Jordan,
Jr. She was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York City.
Her remains were removed from Woodlawn in July, 1958 and taken to
North Plainsfield Cemetery, CT. Before she died, she did correctly
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February 8, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! Billy
Bishop, Canadian colonel, pilot and actor, top Canadian and
British Empire flying ace of the First World War (d. September 11,
1956) is #born William Avery Bishop in Owen Sound, Ontario,
Canada. Officially credited with 72 aerial victories, William
Avery Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED achieved all of
them flying his Nieuport 17 fighter on the Western Front flying
for the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF). He was
an Air Marshal, a three-star air-officer in the Royal Air Force
(RAF), a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) recipient, a Military
Cross (MC) recipient, and a recipient of the highest and most
prestigious award of the British honours system, the Victoria
Cross (VC). During the Second World War, Bishop was instrumental
in setting up and promoting the British Commonwealth Air Training
Plan, a massive, joint military aircrew training program created
for the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In
1942, he appeared as himself in the film Captains Of The Clouds, a
Hollywood tribute to the RCAF starring James Cagney in his first
technicolor film, the title name borrowed from a Victory Loans
speech Bishop gave. Billy Bishop died in his sleep at the age of
62, while wintering in Palm Beach, Florida. His funeral service
was held with full Air Force Honours in Toronto, Ontario. His body
was cremated and the ashes interred in the family plot in
Greenwood Cemetery, Owen Sound, Ontario. A memorial service for
Air Marshal Bishop was held in St Paul's Church, Bristol, England,
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February 8, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! King
Vidor, American film director, film producer and screenwriter (d.
November 1, 1982) is #born King Wallis Vidor into a well-to-do
family in Galveston, Texas, the son of Kate (nee Wallis) and
Charles Shelton Vidor, a lumber importer and mill owner. King
Vidor's career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1979, he was
awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his "incomparable
achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator." He was
nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar, and won eight
international film awards during his career. Vidor's best known
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8, 1899: #BOTD: #HBD! Lonnie
Johnson, pioneering African American blues and jazz singer,
guitarist, violinist and songwriter, recognized as the first to
play an electrically amplified violin and the originator of what
is now known as the "guitar solo" (d. June 16, 1970) is
#born Alonzo Johnson in New Orleans, Louisiana. Johnson was born
in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in a family of musicians. He
studied violin, piano and guitar as a child and learned to play
various other instruments, including the mandolin, but he
concentrated on the guitar throughout his professional career. By
his late teens, he was playing guitar and violin in his father's
family band at banquets and weddings, alongside his brother James
"Steady Roll" Johnson. He also worked with the jazz
trumpeter Punch Miller in the Storyville district of New Orleans.
In 1917, Johnson joined a revue that toured England, returning
home in 1919 to find that all of his family, except his brother
James, had died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. He and his brother
settled in St. Louis in 1921, where they performed as a duo.
Lonnie also worked on riverboats and in the orchestras of Charlie
Creath and Fate Marable. In 1925, Johnson entered and won a blues
contest at the Booker T. Washington Theatre in St. Louis, the
prize being a recording contract with Okeh Records. To his regret,
he was then tagged as a blues artist and later found it difficult
to be regarded as anything else. He later said, "I guess I
would have done anything to get recorded - it just happened to be
a blues contest, so I sang the blues." Between 1925 and 1932
he made about 130 recordings for Okeh, many of which sold well
(making him one of the most popular OKeh artists). He was called
to New York to record with the leading blues singers of the day,
including Victoria Spivey and the country blues singer Alger
"Texas" Alexander. He also toured with Bessie Smith, a
top attraction of the Theater Owners Bookers Association. In
December 1927, Johnson recorded in Chicago as a guest artist with
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, paired with the banjoist Johnny
St. Cyr. He played on the sides "I'm Not Rough", "Savoy
Blues", and "Hotter Than That." The most famous of
the three sides, "Hotter than That," encompassed the New
Orleans traditions of polymetric tension, scar, dialogue,
collective improvisation, and timbral diversity. In an unusual
move, Johnson was invited to sit in with many OKeh jazz groups. In
1928, he recorded "Hot and Bothered", "Move Over",
and "The Mooche" with Duke Ellington for Okeh. He also
recorded with a group called the Chocolate Dandies (in this case,
McKinney's Cotton Pickers). He pioneered the guitar solo on the
1927 track "6/88 Glide", and on many of his early
recordings he played 12-string guitar solos in a style that
influenced such future jazz guitarists as Charlie Christian and
Django Reinhardt and gave the instrument new meaning as a jazz
voice. He excelled in purely instrumental pieces, some of which he
recorded with the white jazz guitarist Eddie Lang, with whom he
teamed in 1929. These recordings were among the first to feature
black and white musicians performing together, although Lang was
credited as Blind Willie Dunn to disguise the fact. Much of
Johnson's music featured experimental improvisations that would
now be categorized as jazz rather than blues. According to the
blues historian Gerard Herzhaft, Johnson was "undeniably the
creator of the guitar solo played note by note with a pick, which
has become the standard in jazz, blues, country, and rock".
Johnson's style reached both the Delta bluesmen and urban players
who would adapt and develop his one-string solos into the modern
electric blues style. However, the writer Elijah Wald declared
that in the 1920s and 1930s Johnson was best known as a
sophisticated and urbane singer rather than an instrumentalist:
"Of the forty ads for his records that appeared in the
Chicago Defender between 1926 and 1931, not one even mentioned
that he played guitar." Johnson's compositions often depicted
the social conditions confronting urban African Americans
("Racketeers' Blues", "Hard Times Ain't Gone
Nowhere", "Fine Booze and Heavy Dues"). In his
lyrics he captured the nuances of male-female love relationships
in a way that went beyond Tin Pan Alley sentimentalism. His songs
displayed an ability to understand the heartaches of others, which
Johnson saw as the essence of his blues. After touring with Bessie
Smith in 1929, Johnson moved to Chicago and recorded for Okeh with
the stride pianist James P. Johnson. However, with the temporary
demise of the recording industry in the Great Depression, he was
compelled to make a living outside music, working at one point in
a steel mill in Peoria, Illinois. In 1932 he moved again, to
Cleveland, Ohio, where he lived for the rest of the decade. There
he performed on radio programs and intermittently played with the
band backing the singer Putney Dandridge. By the late 1930s, he
was recording and performing in Chicago for Decca Records, working
with Roosevelt Sykes and Blind John Davis, among others. In 1939,
during a session for Bluebird Records with the pianist Joshua
Altheimer, Johnson used an electric guitar for the first time. He
recorded 34 tracks for Bluebird over the next five years,
including the hits "He's a Jelly Roll Baker" and "In
Love Again". After World War II, Johnson made the transition
to rhythm and blues, recording for King in Cincinnati and having a
hit in 1948 with "Tomorrow Night" written by Sam Coslow
and Will Grosz. The topped the Billboard Race Records chart for 7
weeks and reached number 19 on the pop chart with sales of three
million copies. A blues ballad with piano accompaniment and
background singers, the song bore little resemblance to much of
Johnson's earlier blues and jazz material. The follow-ups
"Pleasing You", "So Tired", and "Confused"
were also R & B hits. In 1952 Johnson toured England. Tony
Donegan, a British musician who played on the same bill, paid
tribute to Johnson by changing his name to Lonnie Donegan.
Johnson's performances are thought to have been received poorly by
British audiences; this may have been due to organizational
problems with the tour. After returning to the United States,
Johnson moved to Philadelphia. He worked in a steel foundry and as
a janitor. In 1959 he was working at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel
in Philadelphia in 1959 when WHAT-FM disc jockey Chris Albertson
located him and produced Blues by Lonnie Johnson for Bluesville
Records. This was followed by other Prestige albums, including one
(Blues & Ballads) with the former Ellington boss Elmer
Snowden, who had helped Albertson locate Johnson. Snowden had been
the original bandleader of the Washingtonians, which Ellington
took over after Snowden vacated the position and made into the
famous Ellington orchestra. There followed a Chicago engagement
for Johnson at the Playboy Club. This succession of events placed
him back on the music scene at a fortuitous time: young audiences
were embracing folk music, and many veteran performers were
stepping out of obscurity. Johnson was reunited with Duke
Ellington and appeared as a guest at an all-star folk concert. In
1961, Johnson was reunited with his Okeh recording partner
Victoria Spivey for another Prestige album, Idle Hours, and the
two singers performed at Gerdes Folk City. In 1963 he toured
Europe as part of the American Folk Blues Festival with Muddy
Waters and others and recorded an album with Otis Spann in
Denmark. In May 1965, he performed at a club in Toronto before an
audience of four people. Two weeks later, his shows at a different
club attracted a larger audience, and Johnson, encouraged by
Toronto's relative racial harmony, decided to move to the city. He
opened his club, Home of the Blues, on Toronto's Yorkville Avenue
in 1966, but it was a business failure, and Johnson was fired by
the man who became owner. Through the rest of the decade, he
recorded, played clubs in Canada, and embarked on several regional
tours. In March 1969 he was hit by a car while walking on a
sidewalk in Toronto. He was seriously injured, suffering a broken
hip and kidney injuries. A benefit concert was held on May 4,
1969, with two dozen acts that included Ian and Sylvia Tyson, John
Lee Hooker, and Hagood Hardy. He never fully recovered from his
injuries and suffered what was described as a stroke. He was able
to return to the stage for one performance at Massey Hall on
February 23, 1970, walking with the aid of a cane, to sing a
couple songs with Buddy Guy; Johnson received a standing ovation.
Lonnie Johnson died on June 16, 1970 died in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada aged 71 of an apparent stroke brought on by an auto
accident in March 1969. A funeral was held at Mount Hope Cemetery
in Toronto by his friends and fellow musicians, but his family
members insisted on transferring the body to Philadelphia where he
was buried. He was virtually broke. The Killer Blues Headstone
project, a nonprofit organization that places headstones on
unmarked graves of blues musicians, purchased a headstone for
Johnson around 2014. A funeral was held at Mount Hope Cemetery in
Toronto by his friends and fellow musicians, but his family
members insisted on transferring the body to Philadelphia.
Johnson's early recordings are the first guitar recordings that
display a single-note soloing style with string bending and
vibrato. Johnson pioneered this style of guitar playing on
records, and his influence is obvious in the playing of Django
Reinhardt, T-Bone Walker and virtually all electric blues
guitarists. One of Elvis Presley's earliest recordings was a
version of Johnson's blues ballad "Tomorrow Night",
written by Sam Coslow and Will Grosz. Presley's vocal phrasing
mimics Johnson's, and many of Presley's signature vibrato and
baritone sounds can be heard in development. "Tomorrow Night"
was also recorded by LaVern Baker and (in 1957) by Jerry Lee
Lewis. In the liner notes for the album Biograph, Bob Dylan
described his encounters with Johnson in New York City. "I
was lucky to meet Lonnie Johnson at the same club I was working
and I must say he greatly influenced me. You can hear it in that
first record. I mean Corrina, Corrina...that's pretty much Lonnie
Johnson. I used to watch him every chance I got and sometimes he'd
let me play with him. I think he and Tampa Red and of course
Scrapper Blackwell, that's my favorite style of guitar playing."
In his autobiography, Chronicles, Vol. 1, Dylan wrote about the
performing method he learned from Lonnie Johnson and remarked that
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8, 1904: The Russo-Japanese War
(Russian: Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna, "The Russian-Japanese
War"; Japanese: Nichiro Senso, "The Japanese-Russian
War"): The Battle Of Port Arthur (Japanese: Ryojunko Kaisen):
-- A surprise torpedo night attack by a squadron of Japanese
destroyers on the neutral Russian fleet anchored at Port Arthur in
Manchuria, China starts the Russo-Japanese War. The Battle Of Port
Arthur (Monday February 8 - Tuesday February 9, 1904) continued
the following morning with an engagement of major surface
combatants; further skirmishing off Port Arthur would continue
until May 1904. The battle ended inconclusively, though the war
resulted in a decisive Japanese victory. The Russo-Japanese War
(Russian: Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna, "Russo-Japanese War";
Japanese: Nichiro Senso, "Japanese-Russian War") was
fought during 1904 and 1905 between the Russian Empire and the
Empire Of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and
Korea. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong
Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around
Korea, Japan and the Yellow Sea. Russia sought a warm-water port
on the Pacific Ocean for its navy and for maritime trade.
Vladivostok was operational only during the summer, whereas Port
Arthur, a naval base in Liaodong Province leased to Russia by the
Qing dynasty of China, was operational all year. Since the end of
the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Japan feared Russian
encroachment on its plans to create a sphere of influence in Korea
and Manchuria. Russia had demonstrated an expansionist policy in
the Siberian Far East from the reign of Ivan The Terrible in the
16th century. Seeing Russia as a rival, Japan offered to recognize
Russian dominance in Manchuria in exchange for recognition of
Korea as being within the Japanese sphere of influence. Russia
refused and demanded Korea north of the 39th parallel to be a
neutral buffer zone between Russia and Japan. The Japanese
government perceived a Russian threat to their plans for expansion
into Asia and chose to go to war. After negotiations broke down in
1904, the Japanese Navy opened hostilities by attacking the
Russian Eastern Fleet at Port Arthur, China, in a surprise attack.
Russia suffered a number of defeats, but Tsar Nicholas II was
convinced that Russia would win and chose to remain engaged in the
war; at first, to await the outcomes of certain naval battles, and
later to preserve the dignity of Russia by averting a "humiliating
peace". Russia ignored Japan's willingness early on to agree
to an armistice and rejected the idea of bringing the dispute to
the Arbitration Court at The Hague. The war concluded with the
Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
The complete victory of the Japanese military surprised world
observers. The consequences transformed the balance of power in
East Asia, resulting in Japan's emergence as a great power. In
contrast, the losses to manpower and prestige for the Russian
empire contributed to growing unrest which culminated in the 1905
Russian Revolution. Emperor Meiji wrote this poem at the start of
the Russo-Japanese War to express his sincere desire to avoid war;
one of the translations, by JapanForward.com, is: "The four
seas are born from a single womb, why then should wind and waves
rise in discord?" On September 6, 1941, his son and successor
Hirohito read this tanka of his grandfather in conference and he
asked his two military chiefs of staff what they thought of the
poem. The general historical interpretation of this bit of
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February 8, 1915: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Premieres: Film Premieres: American Film Premieres: -- D. W.
Griffith's controversial American silent epic drama film The Birth
of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. The Birth of a Nation
(originally called The Clansman) was directed and co-produced by
D. W. Griffith and starred Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted
from the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon Jr..
Griffith co-wrote the screenplay (with Frank E. Woods), and
co-produced the film (with Harry Aitken). Three hours long, the
film was originally presented in two parts separated by an
intermission; it was the first 12-reel film in the United States.
The film chronicles the relationship of two families in the
American Civil War and Reconstruction era over the course of
several years: the pro-Union Northern Stonemans and the
pro-Confederacy Southern Camerons. The assassination of President
Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized. The film was a
commercial success, though it was highly controversial for its
portrayal of black men (many played by white actors in blackface)
as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and
the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) (whose original founding
is dramatized) as a heroic force. There were widespread black
protests against The Birth of a Nation, such as in Boston, while
thousands of white Bostonians flocked to see the film. The NAACP
spearheaded an unsuccessful campaign to ban the film. Griffith's
indignation at efforts to censor or ban the film motivated him to
produce Intolerance the following year. The film's release is also
credited as being one of the events that inspired the formation of
the "second era" Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain,
Georgia, in the same year. The Birth of a Nation, along with the
trial and lynching of Leo Frank for the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan
in Atlanta, was used as a recruiting tool for the KKK. Under
President Woodrow Wilson, a defender of the Klan, it was the first
American motion picture to be screened inside the White House.
Griffith's innovative techniques and storytelling power have made
The Birth of a Nation one of the landmarks of film history. In
1992, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film
"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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February 8, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! Lana
Turner, American actress, pin-up model, cultural icon and beauty,
who over the course of her nearly 50-year career was frequently
cited as an icon of Hollywood glamour achieved achieved fame as a
screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema and for her highly
publicized personal life (d. June 29, 1995) is #born Julia Jean
Turner at Providence Hospital in Wallace, Idaho. In the mid-1940s,
she was one of the highest-paid actresses in the United States,
and one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) biggest stars, with her
films earning more than 50M USD for the studio during her 18-year
contract with them. Born to working-class parents in northern
Idaho, Turner spent her childhood there before her family
relocated to California. In 1936, when Turner was 15, she was
discovered while purchasing a soda at the Top Hat Malt Shop in
Hollywood. At age 16, she was signed to a personal contract by
Warner Bros. director Mervyn LeRoy, who took her with him when he
transferred to MGM in 1938. She soon attracted attention by
playing the role of a murder victim in her film debut, LeRoy's
They Won't Forget (1937), and she later moved into supporting
roles, often appearing as an ingenue. During the early 1940s,
Turner established herself as a leading lady and one of MGM's top
stars, appearing in such films as the film noir Johnny Eager
(1941); the musical Ziegfeld Girl (1941); the horror film Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); and the romantic war drama Somewhere
I'll Find You (1942), one of several films in which she starred
opposite Clark Gable. Turner's reputation as a glamorous femme
fatale was enhanced by her critically acclaimed performance in the
noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), a role which
established her as a serious dramatic actress. Her popularity
continued through the 1950s in dramas such as The Bad and the
Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), the latter for which she
was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Intense media
scrutiny surrounded the actress in 1958 when her teenaged daughter
Cheryl Crane stabbed Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to death in
their home during a domestic struggle. Her next film, Imitation of
Life (1959), proved to be one of the greatest commercial successes
of her career, and her starring role in Madame X (1966) earned her
a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress. Turner spent
most of the 1970s in semi-retirement, making her final film
appearance in 1980. In 1982, she accepted a much-publicized and
lucrative recurring guest role in the television series Falcon
Crest, which afforded the series notably high ratings. Lana Turner
died of throat cancer at her home in Century City, Los Angeles,
aged 74 Turner's remains were cremated and given to her daughter
Cheryl Crane. Multiple accounts have the ashes still in Cheryl's
possession, while other accounts say the ashes were scattered in
the ocean, but which ocean and location varies by the sources. On
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February 8, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Jack
Lemmon, American actor and pianist who was nominated for an
Academy Award eight times, winning twice (d. June 27, 2001) is
#born John Uhler Lemmon III, in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley
Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts. Lemmon starred in over 60
films, such as Mister Roberts (1955, for which he won the year's
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Operation Mad Ball
(1957), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Days of
Wine and Roses (1962), Irma la Douce (1963), The Great Race
(1965), The Odd Couple (1968, and its sequel The Odd Couple II
(1998), both with frequent co-star Walter Matthau), Save the Tiger
(1973, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), The
China Syndrome (1979), Missing (1982), Long Day's Journey into
Night (1987, for which he won a Golden Globe) and Glengarry Glen
Ross (1992). Jack Lemmon died of bladder cancer aged 76 in Los
Angeles, California. He had suffered from the disease privately
for two years before his death. His body is interred at Westwood
Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California; the graves
of Marilyn Monroe, Walter Matthau, George C. Scott, Rodney
Dangerfield, and film director Billy Wilder lie in the same
cemetery. Lemmon's gravestone reads like a title screen from a
film: "JACK LEMMON in". Guests who attended the private
ceremony included Billy Wilder, Shirley MacLaine, Kevin Spacey,
Gregory Peck, Sidney Poitier, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas,
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Frank Sinatra's widow Barbara and Walter
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8, 1931: #BOTD: #HBD! James
Dean, American actor, auto racer and popular culture icon (d.
September 30, 1955) is #born James Byron Dean at the Seven Gables
apartment on the corner of 4th Street and McClure Street in
Marion, Indiana. James Dean is remembered as a cultural icon of
teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in
the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause
(1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The
other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in
East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant
(1956). A competant professional auto racer, he died when he tried
to prevent his Porsche 550 racing sports car from crashing into
1950 Ford Tudor making a left at an intersection. After his death,
Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award
nomination for Best Actor, and remains the only actor to have had
two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film
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(#JCKaelin here: John Williams scored a
film that was in part based on my personal experiences; which film
I'm not prepared to say :) ) ========= February 8, 1932: #BOTD:
#HBD! John Williams, American composer, conductor and pianist,
whose compositions are considered the epitome of film music,
considered among the greatest composers in history generally and
the history of cinema specifically, is #born John Towner Williams
in Flushing, Queens, New York City, to Esther (nee Towner) and
Johnny Williams, a jazz drummer and percussionist who played with
the Raymond Scott Quintet. In a career that has spanned seven
decades, John Towner Williams KBE has composed some of the most
popular, recognizable and critically acclaimed film scores in
cinematic history. Williams has won 25 Grammy Awards, seven
British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards and four Golden
Globe Awards. With 53 Academy Award nominations, he is the second
most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. Williams has
composed for many critically acclaimed and popular movies,
including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third
Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the first two Home
Alone films, the Indiana Jones films, the first two Jurassic Park
films, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can,
Seven Years In Tibet, War of the Worlds (2005 film) and the first
three Harry Potter films. Williams has also composed numerous
classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and
solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops' principal
conductor from 1980 to 1993 and is its laureate conductor. He has
been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974,
composing music for all but five of his feature films, and George
Lucas, with whom he has worked on both of his main franchises.
Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer
Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission"
theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television
series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental
music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams
announced his intention to retire from film score composing after
the release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in 2023 to
focus more on composing independent orchestral and symphonic
pieces, though he later rescinded this. In 2005, the American Film
Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the
greatest film score of all time. The Library of Congress entered
the Star Wars soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for
being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically
significant". Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's
Hall of Fame in 2000, and he received a Kennedy Center Honor in
2004. His AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016 was the first to be
awarded outside of the acting and directing fields. He has
composed the score for nine of the top 25 highest-grossing films
at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation). His work has
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February 8, 1940: #BOTD: #HBD! Ted
Koppel, British-born American broadcast journalist, best known as
the anchor for Nightline, from the program's inception in 1980
until 2005, is #born Edward James Martin Koppel in Nelson, England
to German Jewish parents who had fled Germany after the rise of
Adolf Hitler and Nazism. As he gained public prominence as host of
Nightline, he came to be regarded as one of the outstanding
serious-minded interviewers on American television. Five years
after its 1980 debut, the show had a nightly audience of about 7.5
million viewers. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as
managing editor for the Discovery Channel, a news analyst for NPR
and BBC World News America and a contributor to Rock Center with
Brian Williams. Koppel continues as a special contributor to CBS
News Sunday Morning. His career as foreign and diplomatic
correspondent earned him numerous awards, including nine Overseas
Press Club awards and 25 Emmy Awards. In Germany, Ted Koppel's
father operated a tire-manufacturing company; to help the British
economy, British Home Secretary John Simon invited him and his
wife to move the factory to Lancashire, England, where he was
promised they would be protected in the event of war. The factory
moved in 1936, but nevertheless, when war broke out in Europe in
1939, Koppel's father was declared an enemy alien and imprisoned
on the Isle of Man for a year and a half. Koppel was born shortly
after his father was taken away. To provide for her infant son,
his mother sold her personal jewelry and did menial work in
London. After he was released from internment, Koppel's father was
not permitted to work in England, nor would he allow his wife to
work. Following the end of the war, the family earned some money
from their confiscated assets and decided to leave for the United
States in 1953, when Ted was at the age of 13. There, his mother,
Alice, became a singer and pianist, and his father, Edwin, again
opened a tire factory. Koppel's boyhood hero was radio broadcaster
Edward R. Murrow, whose factual reports during the bombing of
London inspired him to become a journalist. Koppel attended
Syracuse University, graduating at age 20 with a Bachelor of
Science degree. He was a member of the Alpha Chi chapter of the Pi
Kappa Alpha fraternity. His roommate recalls that Koppel "was
incredibly focused and had a photographic memory. He remembers
almost every conversation he ever had with anybody. And the man
never needs sleep." Koppel then went to Stanford University,
where he earned a Master of Arts degree in mass-communications
research and political science. While at Stanford, he met his
future wife, Grace Anne Dorney. He spent 20 years as a broadcast
journalist and news anchor for ABC before hosting Nightline.
Before becoming Hong Kong bureau chief, Koppel covered the 1968
presidential campaign of Richard Nixon and the and U.S. State
Department correspondent, where Koppel formed a life-long
friendship with Henry Kissinger. Both had similar backgrounds;
both were born to Jewish refugee parents who escaped Nazi Germany,
and both of them moved to the United States as children. Along
with former Secretary Of State Alexander Haig, Kissinger was the
most frequent guest on Nightline. Koppel would often report on
State Department foreign conferences, as when he traveled with
Kissinger during his meetings in Egypt and Israel in 1975. He said
about Kissinger: "I have a high regard for Henry. He has a
first-class mind. A half hour with him gives me a better insight
into a foreign policy question than hours with others." In an
interview in the March/April 1989 issue of Columbia Journalism
Review, Koppel commented, "Henry Kissinger is, plain and
simply, the best Secretary Of State we have had in 20, maybe 30
years - certainly one of the two or three great secretaries of
state of our century," and added, "I'm proud to be a
friend of Henry Kissinger. He is an extraordinary man. This
country has lost a lot by not having him in a position of
influence and authority". Koppel was among those traveling to
China with U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1972. He spoke about it
with the USC US-China Institute in their "Assignment: China"
documentary series about American media coverage of China. Koppel
likened the trip to a "journey to the dark side of the moon".
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February 8, 1942: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World
War II): The Asiatic-Pacific Theater: The China Burma India
Theater (CBI) (The India-Burma Theaters [IBT]) : The South-East
Asian Theater Of World War II: The Fall Of Singapore (The Battle
Of Singapore): -- The Empire Of Japan invades the British
stronghold of Singapore, nicknamed "The Gibraltar Of The
East", the major British military base in South-East Asia and
the keystone of British imperial interwar defence planning for
South-East Asia as well as the South-West Pacific. The fighting in
Singapore lasted from 8 to 15 February 1942 although this was
preceded by two months of British resistance as Japanese forces
advanced down the Malaya peninsula. The battle resulted in the
Japanese capture of Singapore and the largest surrender of
British-led military personnel in history. About 80,000 British,
Indian and Australian troops became prisoners of war, joining
50,000 taken by the Japanese in the earlier Malayan Campaign. The
British prime minister, Winston Churchill, called it the "worst
disaster" in British military history. To commemorate the
event, the Japanese created their feature-length animated film
"Momotaro: Umi no Shinpei" ("Momotaro's
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February 8, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Terry
Melcher, American record producer, singer, and songwriter who was
instrumental in shaping the mid-to-late 1960s California Sound and
folk rock movements (d. November 19, 2004) is #born Terrence Paul
Jorden in New York City, the only child of actress and singer
Doris Day; his father was Day's first husband, trombonist Al
Jorden. Known as "Terry", the boy was named by his
mother after the hero of her favorite childhood comic strip, Terry
and the Pirates. He was adopted by her third husband, Martin
Melcher. Terry Melcher's best-known contributions were producing
the Byrds' first two albums Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) and Turn!
Turn! Turn! (1965), as well as most of the hit recordings of Paul
Revere & the Raiders and Gentle Soul. Most of his early
recordings were with the vocal surf acts the Rip Chords and Bruce
& Terry. In the 1960s, Melcher was acquainted with the Beach
Boys and later produced several singles for the group in the 1980s
and the 1990s, including "Kokomo" (1988), which topped
U.S. record charts. He is also known for his collaborations with
Bruce Johnston and for his association with the Manson Family.
Terry Melcher dies at his home in Beverly Hills, California after
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February 8, 1942 #BOTD: #HBD! Robert
Klein, American stand-up comedian, singer, and actor known for his
appearances on stage and screen, who has released four standup
comedy albums: A Child of the 50s (1973), Mind Over Matter (1974),
New Teeth (1975), and Let's Not Make Love (1990), the first two of
which received Grammy Award For Best Comedy Album nominations, is
#born in the Bronx, New York, the son of Frieda (nee Moskowitz)
and Benjamin Klein, and raised along with older sister Rhoda in a
"prototypical 1950s Bronx Jewish" environment, the
grandson of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants who arrived in the USA
early in the 20th century. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton
High School, Klein had planned to study medicine; however, he
changed his mind during his studies at Alfred University, deciding
to go into acting instead. While studying at the Yale Drama
School, Klein learned about an opportunity to audition for The
Second City. In a piece he wrote for the improvisational troupe's
book, Klein recalled sitting in a room full of other hopefuls,
including Fred Willard. Klein's audition consisted of an
improvisation set with Willard about two guys in a nightclub,
which was successful enough to get Klein and Willard hired by
Second City. In the spring of 1965, Klein was chosen as a member
of Second City. When he returned to New York City a year later,
Klein made his Broadway debut when he was cast by Mike Nichols in
the Broadway musical The Apple Tree opposite Alan Alda. Klein
hosted Saturday Night Live in its first season in 1975 and again
in 1978. He earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
nomination for his performance in Neil Simon's musical comedy
They're Playing Our Song (1979). He also starred on his own show,
Robert Klein Time, which aired on USA Network from 1986 to 1988.
He is known for his film roles in The Owl and the Pussycat (1970),
Mixed Nuts (1994), One Fine Day (1996), Primary Colors (1998), The
Safety of Objects (2001), Two Weeks Notice (2002), How to Lose a
Guy in 10 Days (2003), and Reign Over Me (2007). He is also known
for his recurring television roles in Law & Order: SVU
(2009-2012), The Good Wife (2013-2014), Madam Secretary (2014) and
Will & Grace (2018-2019). He has received two Primetime Emmy
Award nominations for his specials, Child in his 50's (2001), and
Unfair and Unbalanced (2010). He was profiled in the Starz
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8, 1950: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The
Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations,
The Fall Of Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The
Socialist Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): Secret Police Agencies In The
Eastern Bloc (Secret Police Agencies In The Communist Bloc): The
German Democratic Republic (GDR) (German: Deutsche Demokratische
Republik (DDR)) (East Germany): The Stasi (The Ministry for State
Security [German: Ministerium Fur Staatssicherheit [MfS"]):
-- The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
The Ministry for State Security was the official state security
service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It has
been described as one of the most effective and repressive
intelligence and secret police agencies to have ever existed. The
Stasi was headquartered in East Berlin, with an extensive complex
in Berlin-Lichtenberg and several smaller facilities throughout
the city. The Stasi motto was "Schild und Schwert der Partei"
(Shield and Sword of the Party), referring to the ruling Socialist
Unity Party of Germany. Erich Mielke was its longest-serving
chief, in power for thirty-two of the GDR's forty years of
existence. One of its main tasks was spying on the population,
mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants, and
fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including
hidden psychological destruction of dissidents (Zersetzung,
literally meaning decomposition). Its Main Directorate for
Reconnaissance was responsible for both espionage and for
conducting covert operations in foreign countries. Under its
long-time head Markus Wolf, this directorate gained a reputation
as one of the most effective intelligence agencies of the Cold
War. Numerous Stasi officials were prosecuted for their crimes
after 1990. After German reunification, the surveillance files
that the Stasi had maintained on millions of East Germans were
laid open, so that any citizen could inspect their personal file
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February 8, 1952: The United Kingdom: The
History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United Kingdom:
The Monarchy Of The United Kingdom (The British Monarchy): Royal
Accessions: Successions To The British Throne: -- Elizabeth II is
proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom at the age of 25. Two days
prior, on February 6, 1952, upon the discovery of the death of her
father, King George VI, Elizabeth II had become the defacto queen
regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
The king was found dead at 07:30 GMT in bed at Sandringham House
in Norfolk; he had died in the night from a coronary thrombosis (a
blood clot inside a blood vessel of the heart) at the age of 56.
At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the
Treetops Hotel in Kenya. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary
Windsor), Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms,
was born April 21, 1926 in London. She was the first child of the
Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth, and she was educated privately at home. Her father
acceded to the throne on the abdication of his brother King Edward
VIII in 1936, from which time she was the heir presumptive. She
began to undertake public duties during the Second World War,
serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In 1947, she married
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a former prince of Greece and
Denmark, with whom she has four children: Charles, Prince of
Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. When her father died in February
1952, she became head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of
seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon.
She has reigned as a constitutional monarch through major
political changes, such as devolution in the United Kingdom,
Canadian patriation, and the decolonisation of Africa. Between
1956 and 1992, the number of her realms varied as territories
gained independence and realms, including South Africa, Pakistan,
and Ceylon (renamed Sri Lanka), became republics. Her many
historic visits and meetings include a state visit to the Republic
Of Ireland and visits to or from five popes. Significant events
have included her coronation in 1953 and the celebrations of her
Silver, Golden, and Diamond Jubilees in 1977, 2002, and 2012
respectively. In 2017, she became the first British monarch to
reach a Sapphire Jubilee. She is the longest-lived and
longest-reigning British monarch as well as the world's
longest-reigning queen regnant and female head of state, the
oldest and longest-reigning current monarch and the
longest-serving current head of state. Elizabeth has occasionally
faced republican sentiments and press criticism of the royal
family, in particular after the breakdown of her children's
marriages, her "annus horribilis" ("horrible year",
an expression used by Queen Elizabeth II in her speech at London's
Guildhall on November24, 1992 marking the 40th anniversary of her
accession) and the death in 1997 of her former daughter-in-law
Diana, Princess of Wales. However, support for the monarchy has
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8, 1968: #BOTD: #HBD! Gary
Coleman, African American actor and comedian regarded as one of
the greatest child actors of all time, and was the highest-paid
adolescent on television throughout the late 1970s and 1980s,
rated first on a list of VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars"
(d. May 28, 2010) is #born Gary Wayne Coleman in Zion, Illinois,
on February 8, 1968. He was adopted by W. G. Coleman, a fork-lift
operator, and Edmonia Sue, a nurse practitioner. Due to the kidney
disease focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (scarring of the
kidneys), and the corticosteroids and other medications used to
treat it, his growth was limited to 4 ft 8 in (142 cm), and his
face kept a childlike appearance even into adulthood. He underwent
two unsuccessful kidney transplants in 1973 and again in 1984, and
required dialysis. Coleman was known for playing the role of
Arnold Jackson in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978-1986), which
he reprised in numerous other television series such as Hello,
Larry (1979), The Facts of Life (1979-1980) and The Fresh Prince
of Bel-Air (1996), among others. For playing the role of Arnold,
he received several accolades, which include two Young Artist
Awards; in 1980 for Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through
Entertainment and in 1982 for Best Young Actor in a Comedy Series;
and three People's Choice Awards; a consecutive three wins for
Favorite Young TV Performer from 1980 to 1983; as well as
nominations for two TV Land Awards. Coleman's stardom resulted in
several roles thereafter, including his film debut On the Right
Track (1981), the comedies Jimmy the Kid and The Kid with the
Broken Halo (both released in 1982), the cult film Dirty Work
(1998), and the satirical-comedy film An American Carol (2008) and
the independent film Midgets vs. Mascots (2009). He was the star
of The Gary Coleman Show (1982) where he voiced Andy LeBeau, and
he additionally provided the voice of Kevin in the animated show
Waynehead (1996-1997). He also starred in the video games The
Curse of Monkey Island (1997) and did some voice acting and motion
capture for Postal 2 (2003). Coleman struggled financially in
later life; in 1989, he successfully sued his parents and business
adviser over misappropriation of his assets, only to declare
bankruptcy a decade later. Very few details of Coleman's medical
history have been made public, although his battles with issues
such as growth deficiency, substance abuse, and depression during
his life earned significant media coverage. Gary Coleman died at
Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah aged 42, having
been admitted two days before his death after falling down the
stairs at his home in Santaquin and striking his head, resulting
in an epidural hematoma (bleeding between the tough outer membrane
covering the brain (dura mater) and the skull). His remains were
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Today, February 8, 2026
February 8: National Kite Flying Day: --
An annual encouragement to explore kite flying and kite making!
Enthusiasts across the country mark the day by launching their
kites or making plans to attend festivals. Kites date back to
China in 470 B.C. China is full of lore and histories of the
origins of the kite. Many are related to the way wind affects the
leaves on the trees, the shelters they lived in, blowing away the
sails on their ships, and the hats they wore upon their heads. The
stories also tell of kites invented to spy on their enemies or to
send messages. Evidence also shows the people of the South Sea
Islands were using kites for fishing around the same time as the
people of China. Early kites were constructed from bamboo or
sturdy reeds for framing. Leaves, silk, or paper made ideal sails.
Vines or braided fibers completed the line or tether. While people
initially used kites as tools, they also used them for ceremonial
reasons as well. Whether they sent messages into the heavens or to
lift offerings up to the gods, kites had a symbolic place in the
culture. Today kites are popular both as hobbies and for outdoor
fun. They range from a simple diamond kite to more complicated box
kites and giant sled kites. Stunt kites, also known as sport
kites, are designed so the operator can maneuver the kite into
dips, twists, and dives with dramatic effect. Tips for Getting
Your Kite Up in the Air and Keeping it There: Be sure the kite is
assembled correctly. Check the wind. Some kites require more wind
and others less. Picking the right day for your kite is key. A
light breeze (5-20 mph) is generally optimal. Be safe. Don't fly a
kite near power lines, trees, or other sky-high obstacles.
Wide-open spaces are best. Be safer. Don't fly in the rain. When
launching the kite, be sure to have your back to the wind. If the
wind is light, have a friend hold the kite downwind and hold your
line taught, reeling in slowly until the kite launches. Don't let
the line out too quickly. And let the line out at the same pace
the kite is gaining altitude. So, go fly a kite! Make a kite.
Scout out kite festivals to attend in the months to come. Host a
kite flying lesson. Learn about the science behind kite flying.
And use #NationalKiteFlyingDay to post on social media!d
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Today, February 8, 2026February 8: Laugh And Get Rich Day: -- A
day to laugh and to enjoy the many benefits that laughter brings.
The biggest benefit of laughter is that it improves our health.
Laughing can elevate our mood, lower stress and blood pressure,
and strengthen the immune system. In this way, laughter makes us
rich because health is wealth, after all! But laughter can also
contribute to our financial gains by enriching our professional
lives. Those who laugh often tend to be happier - happy workers
are more productive and are liked by coworkers. Laugh and Get Rich
Day is a holiday that is shrouded in mystery. We don't know who or
when it was created, and even the purpose of the celebrations is
unknown. However, the general understanding is that this is a
holiday that encourages people to laugh to realize that if we're
happy, we have all of the riches we will ever need. Therefore, on
February 8 every year, people come together to share jokes, laugh,
and spend quality time with each other. What most of us might not
realize is that babies can laugh before they're even close to
speaking. Infants as young as 17 days old can laugh way before
they begin to make babbling sounds. They laugh when they find
something amusing or during playtime. That's how ingrained
laughter is in us! In fact, a number of scientific studies show
that during a 10-minute conversation, the average person will
likely laugh anywhere from 5.5 to 5.8 times. Something else that
science has taught us is that even the act of smiling, regardless
of whether it's genuine or not, can considerably improve a
person's mood. So, if you're having a bad day and want to feel
better, just crack a smile. Laughter has also inspired humans to
create the genre of comedy, which is designed to bring us humor in
the form of literature, films and T.V. shows, jokes, and even
music. They make us feel joy and inspire us to laugh - and that is
why we tune into our favorite sitcoms or comedy movies when we are
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Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1828: #BOTD: #HBD! Jules
Verne, sometimes called "The Father Of Science Fiction"
(a title that has also been given to Cyrano De Begerac, H. G.
Wells and Hugo Gernsback), French author, poet, and playwright, a
major literary figure with a wide influence on the literary
avant-garde and on surrealism, the second most-translated author
in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and
William Shakespeare (d. March 24, 1905) is #born Jules Gabriel
Verne in the seaport of Nantes, France where he was trained to
follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the
profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His
collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the
creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series
of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to
the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). While ill
with chronic diabetes and complications from a stroke which
paralyzed his right side, Verne died aged 77 at his 44 Boulevard
Longueville (now Boulevard Jules-Verne) home in Amiens, France. He
is buried at The Cimetiere De La Madeleine in Amiens. His son,
Michel Verne, oversaw the publication of the novels Invasion Of
The Sea and The Lighthouse At The End Of The World after Jules's
death. The Voyages extraordinaires series continued for several
years afterwards at the same rate of two volumes a year. It was
later discovered that Michel Verne had made extensive changes in
these stories, and the original versions were eventually published
at the end of the 20th century by the Jules Verne Society (Societe
Jules Verne). In 1919, Michel Verne published The Barsac Mission
(French: L'Etonnante Aventure De La Mission Barsac), whose
original drafts contained references to Esperanto, a language that
his father had been very interested in. In 1989, Verne's
great-grandson discovered his ancestor's as-yet-unpublished novel
Paris In The Twentieth Century, which was subsequently published
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Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1897: #BOTD: #HBD! Linton
Satterthwaite, Maya archeologist and epigrapher well known for his
works at Caracol, Piedras Negras, Cahal Pech and Benque Viejo
(Xunantunich), primarily associated with the University Museum at
the University of Pennsylvania (d. March 11, 1978) is #born in
Trenton, New Jersey. After graduating from Trenton High School,
Satterthwaite joined the military and served as a cadet and flying
officer for the Royal Navy Air Force during World War I.
Afterwards, he decided to attend Yale University for his B.A. and
worked as a reporter from 1929 to 1931. He married Margaret
Elizabeth Conway on May 21, 1930. He participated as an
archaeological assistant in excavations in Texas, West Virginia,
and Guatemala. In 1932, Linton Satterthwaite was named assistant
director for the excavations at Piedras Negras, the modern name
for a ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization located
on the north bank of the Usumacinta River in the Peten department
of northwestern Guatemala. In 1933, J. Alden Mason left his
position as field director at Piedras Negras, and the title was
then given to Satterthwaite until 1939. The focus of the
expeditions at Piedras Negras was to answer archaeological
questions such as establishing building sequences, stratigraphy
(the use of sedimentation at sites to determine age), and
uncovering architectural remains. This was a stark difference from
that of Mason, who focused on monumental sculptures. Acting as
director, Satterthwaite was able to excavate eleven temples,
seventeen palaces, two ballcourts and multiple sweatbaths.
Although many publications on Piedras Negras came out during his
time there, Satterthwaite was still never able to finish all of
the reports that he intended to. One publication that was
completed the book Piedras Negras Archaeology, 1931-1939. It was
after Satterthwaite had achieved all this that he was awarded his
Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1943. From 1950 to 1958, Linton
Satterthwaite directed three sessions of archaeological work at
Caracol, Belize. Initial discovery and research of Caracol, Belize
occurred in 1938, when Rosa Mai discovered the ancient ruins and
A.H. Anderson did initial research, discovering 8 pieces of stelae
in the process. Satterthwaite's concentration at this site was on
hieroglyphs and chronology. During this time, in 1955 Linton
Satterthwaite became curator of the American Section of the
University Museum and Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Pennsylvania. He created a systematic locational guide and
inventory of the artifacts from the New World. During the three
seasons in the 1950s at Caracol, Satterthwaite was able to find
twenty-six early classic vessels, nine late classic vessels, but
as previously stated most of his time was dedicated to the
monumental sculptures. In total, Satterthwaite found twenty stelae
and nineteen altars. These monuments were made into casts,
photographed, sketched and made into quarter-scale blowups. Much
of his work at Caracol was published in the book The Monuments and
Inscriptions of Caracol, Belize, which is co-authored with Carl P.
Beetz. In this book, Satterthwaite and Beetz describe the stelea
and altars, from their exact context in the ground to
interpretations of the hieroglyphs recorded on these monuments. At
the same time of the Caracol investigations, Satterthwaite was
also conducting archaeological investigations at Cahal Pech and
Benque Viejo (what is now called Xunantunich). Satterthwaite
worked at these sites for two seasons beginning in 1950. It was
considered a "housemound project", and Satterthwaite was
able to investigate seventeen structures and five stelae. Linton
Satterthwaite also served as the project's epigrapher at Tikal,
Guatemala. His heavy interest in Maya chronology and monuments can
also be seen in the article entitled, "New Radiocarbon Dates
and the Maya Correlation Problem," which he co-authored with
radiocarbon-dating specialist Elizabeth K. Ralph, and in which
they discuss dates of lintel and vault beams from Tikal. In 1969,
Linton Satterthwaite retired as curator for the University Museum
and professor at Penn. He did however continue his work on the
data at Caracol, Belize and Xunantunich. He died at the age of 81
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Ewing Cemetery in
Ewing, New Jersey. Satterthwaite was able to jumpstart careers in
Maya studies, specifically with Tatiana Proskouriakoff, a
Russian-American Mayanist scholar and archaeologist who
contributed significantly to the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs,
who started her archaeological career in Piedras Negras, Guatemala
during Satterthwaite's tenure there. Linton Satterthwaite is
commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Central
American snake, Tantillita Lintoni.
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Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1994: #DOTD: #RIP: Raymond
Scott, American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer
and inventor of electronic instruments (b. September 10, 1908)
#dies of pneumonia in North Hills, Los Angeles, California, aged
85. He was cremated, and the final disposition of his ashes are
unknown. Raymond Scott was born Harry Warnow in Brooklyn, New York
to Russian Jewish immigrants, Joseph and Sarah Warnow. His older
brother, Mark Warnow, was a conductor, violinist, and musical
director for the CBS radio program Your Hit Paradem and encouraged
his musical career. Raymond Scott's music is famous to millions
because Carl Stalling adapted it in over 120 Bugs Bunny, Porky
Pig, Daffy Duck, and other Warner Bros Looney Tunes and Merrie
Melodies cartoons, despite Scott never having actually scored any
cartoon soundtracks himself. His compositions may also be heard in
The Ren and Stimpy Show (which uses Scott's recordings in twelve
episodes), The Simpsons, Duckman, Animaniacs, The Oblongs, and
Batfink. The only time he composed to accompany animation was
three 20-second commercial jingles for County Fair Bread in 1962.
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Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1990: #DOTD: #RIP: Del
Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist of rock and roll
and country music best known for his 1961 number 1 Billboard hit
"Runaway" (b. December 30, 1934) #dies from a
self-inflicted gunshot wound from a .22 calibre rifle at his home
in Santa Clarita, California, aged 55. In the years leading up to
his death, Shannon suffered from depression. Shannon was cremated,
and his ashes were scattered. Following his death, the Traveling
Wilburys honored him by recording a version of "Runaway".
Jeff Lynne also co-produced Shannon's posthumous album, Rock On,
released by Silvertone Records in 1991. Dell Shannon was born
Charles Weedon Westover in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Bert and
Leone Mosher Westover, and grew up in nearby Coopersville. He
learned to play the ukulele and guitar and listened to
country-and-western music, by artists such as Hank Williams, Hank
Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. He was drafted into the Army in 1954,
and while in Germany played guitar in a band called "The Cool
Flames". When his service ended, he returned to Battle Creek,
Michigan. He found part-time work as a rhythm guitarist in the
singer Doug DeMott's group, "The Moonlight Ramblers",
working at the Hi-Lo Club. When DeMott was fired in 1958 for
drunkenness, Westover took over as leader and singer, giving
himself the name Charlie Johnson and renaming the band the Big
Little Show Band. In early 1959 he added the keyboardist Max
Crook, who played the Musitron (his own invention, an early
synthesizer). Crook had made recordings, and he persuaded Ann
Arbor disc jockey Ollie McLaughlin to listen to the band.
McLaughlin took the group's demos to Harry Balk and Irving
Micahnik of Talent Artists in Detroit. In July 1960, Westover and
Crook signed to become recording artists and composers for Bigtop
Records. Balk suggested Westover use a new name, and they came up
with "Del Shannon", combining Mark Shannon - a wrestling
pseudonym used by a regular at the Hi-Lo Club - with Del, derived
from the Cadillac Coupe de Ville, his favorite car. He flew to New
York City, but his first sessions were not successful. McLaughlin
then persuaded Shannon and Crook to rewrite and re-record one of
their earlier songs, originally called "Little Runaway",
using the Musitron as lead instrument. On January 21, 1961, they
recorded "Runaway", which was released as a single in
February 1961, reaching number 1 on the Billboard chart in April.
Shannon followed with "Hats Off to Larry", which peaked
at number 5 on the Billboard chart and number 2 on the Cashbox
chart in 1961, and the less popular "So Long, Baby",
another song of breakup bitterness. "Runaway" and "Hats
Off to Larry" were recorded in a day. "Little Town
Flirt", in 1962 (with Bob Babbitt), reached number 12 in
1963, as did the album of the same title. After these hits,
Shannon was unable to keep his momentum in the U.S. but had
continued success in the United Kingdom, where he had always been
more popular. In 1963, he became the first American to record a
cover version of a song by the Beatles: his version of "From
Me to You" charted in the U.S. before the Beatles' version.
Shannon opened for Ike and Tina Turner at Dave Hull's Hullabaloo
club in Los Angeles, California, on December 22, 1965. Shannon
signed with Liberty Records in 1966 and revived Toni Fisher's "The
Big Hurt" and the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb".
Peter and Gordon released his song "I Go to Pieces" in
1965. In the late 1960s, not having charted for several years,
Shannon turned to production. During Shannon's tenure at Liberty
Records, success on a national scale eluded him, but he did have
several regional U.S. chart hits with "The Big Hurt",
"Under My Thumb", "She", "Led Along"
and "Runaway" (1967 version). That version (recorded in
England and produced by Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog
Oldham) also did well on the Canadian and Australian pop charts.
In early 1967 Shannon recorded the album Home and Away in England,
with Oldham at the helm. Intended by Oldham as the British answer
to Pet Sounds, Home and Away was shelved by Liberty Records,
although a handful of singles were issued. It was not until 1978
that all of the tracks were eventually issued (with three
unrelated tracks) on a British album, And the Music Plays On. In
1991, all of the tracks were released in the United States as part
of the CD Del Shannon; The Liberty Years. In 2006, 39 years after
it was recorded, Home and Away was finally released as a
stand-alone collection by EMI Records in the UK. This CD collected
the 11 original tracks in stereo and five singles (released in the
U.S., the UK and the Philippines) in their original monaural
mixes. In September 1967, Shannon began laying down the tracks for
The Further Adventures of Charles Westover, which was highly
regarded by fans and critics alike, despite disappointing sales.
The album yielded two 1968 singles, "Thinkin' It Over"
and "Gemini" (recently the subject of a Pilooski remix).
In October 1968, Liberty Records released their tenth (in the
United States) and final Shannon single, a cover of Dee Clark's
1961 hit "Raindrops". This brought to a close a
commercially disappointing period in Shannon's career. In 1972, he
signed with United Artists and recorded Live In England, released
in June 1973. Reviewer Chris Martin critiqued the album
favourably, saying that Shannon never improvised, was always true
to the original sounds of his music and that only Lou Christie
rivaled his falsetto. In April 1975, he signed with Island
Records. After he and his manager jointly sought back royalties
for Shannon, Bug Music was founded in 1975 to administer his
songs. Shannon's career slowed greatly in the 1970s, owing in part
to his alcoholism. The Welsh rock singer Dave Edmunds produced the
single "And the Music Plays On" in 1974. In 1978 Shannon
stopped drinking and began work on "Sea of Love",
released in 1982 on his album Drop Down and Get Me, produced by
Tom Petty. The album took two years to record and featured Petty's
band, the Heartbreakers, backing Shannon. However, RSO Records, to
which Shannon was signed, folded. Further work on the LP was done
for Network Records (distributed by Elektra Records). Seven songs
are Shannon originals with covers of songs recorded by the Everly
Brothers, the Rolling Stones, and Frankie Ford, along with "Sea
of Love" by Phil Phillips. It was Shannon's first album in
eight years. In February 1982, Shannon appeared at the Bottom
Line. He performed pop-rock tunes and old hits. In 1986 he had a
top-ten hit as a songwriter when the pop-country singer Juice
Newton released her cover of Shannon's "Cheap Love" as a
single, which reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot Country chart.
In 1986, Luis Cardenas, the drummer for the band Renegade, made
his version of Shannon's hit "Runaway". The video for
the song featured stop-animation dinosaurs, in which Shannon made
a cameo appearance as a police officer. Shannon had a resurgence
of popularity after re-recording "Runaway" with new
lyrics as the theme for the NBC-TV program Crime Story. In 1988,
Shannon sang "The World We Know" with the Smithereens on
their album Green Thoughts. Two years later, he recorded with Jeff
Lynne of the Electric Light Orchestra, and there were rumors he
would join the Traveling Wilburys after the death of Roy Orbison.
Previously, in 1975, Shannon had recorded tracks with Lynne, along
with "In My Arms Again", a country song he wrote and
recorded for Warner Brothers, which had signed Shannon in 1984.
Shannon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.
Del Shannon was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends
Hall of Fame in 2005. A Del Shannon Memorial Scholarship Fund was
set up following Shannon's death. Coopersville, Michigan also
holds an annual Del Shannon Car Show.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: After
The Fox (1966) Peter Sellers Victor Mature DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 2023: #DOTD: #RIP: Burt
Bacharach, American singer, songwriter, composer, pianist and
record producer (b. May 12, 1928) #dies of natural causes at his
home in Los Angeles, California, aged 94. He is buried at The
Hillside Memorial Park And Mortuary, a Jewish cemetery in Culver
City, California, where many Jewish people from the entertainment
industry are buried. Burt Bacharach was born Burt Freeman
Bacharach in Kansas City, Missouri to the Jewish family of Irma M.
(nee Freeman) and Mark Bertram "Bert" Bacharach, a
well-known syndicated newspaper columnist. He grew up in the Kew
Gardens section of New York City Bacharach composed hundreds of
pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in
collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award
winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have
been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. As of 2014, he
had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of
the most important composers of 20th-century popular music. His
music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced
by his background in jazz harmony, and uncommon selections of
instruments for small orchestras. Most of Bacharach's and David's
hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne
Warwick, but earlier associations (from 1957 to 1963) saw the
composing duo work with Marty Robbins, Perry Como, Gene McDaniels,
and Jerry Butler. Following the initial success of these
collaborations, Bacharach went on to write hits for Gene Pitney,
Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Jackie DeShannon, Bobbie Gentry,
Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, B. J. Thomas, the Carpenters, among
numerous other artists. He arranged, conducted, and produced much
of his recorded output. Songs that he co-wrote which have topped
the Billboard Hot 100 include "This Guy's in Love with You"
(1968), "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (1969),
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" (1970), "Arthur's
Theme (Best That You Can Do)" (1981), and "That's What
Friends Are For" (1986). A significant figure in easy
listening, Bacharach is described by writer William Farina as "a
composer whose venerable name can be linked with just about every
other prominent musical artist of his era." In later years,
his songs were newly appropriated for the soundtracks of major
feature films, by which time "tributes, compilations, and
revivals were to be found everywhere". He has been noted for
his influence on later musical movements such as chamber pop and
Shibuya-kei. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Bacharach and David at
number 32 for their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All
Time. In 2012, the duo received the Library of Congress Gershwin
Prize for Popular Song, the first time the honor has been given to
a songwriting team.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Hell On
Earth: The Kuwaiti Oil Fires Documentary Set MP4 Download DVD
Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1991: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War
I): Operation Desert Storm: The Kuwaiti Oil Fires: -- Satellite
images detect the first smoke from burning oil wells that Iraqi
military forces had ignited in the Kuwaiti oil fields, setting
about 600 oil wells on fire. Ultimately, as part of a scorched
earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to advancing
Coalition military forces, about 605 to 732 oil wells were set on
fire, along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying
areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches, between January and
February 1991. The first oil well fires were extinguished in early
April 1991, with the last well capped on November 6, 1991. The
Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991), codenamed Operation
Desert Shield (August 2, 1990 - January 17, 1991) for operations
leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia, and
Operation Desert Storm (January 17, 1991 - February 28, 1991) in
its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35
nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to
Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war is also known
under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War,
Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War or Iraq War, before the
term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003
Iraq War.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer
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Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1974: The History Of
Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The
Space Age: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight
Programs: Space Stations: Skylab: Skylab 4 (SL-4 and SLM-3) --
After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to
visit American space station Skylab, the United States' first and
only space station, returns to Earth in a splashdown landing off
the Baja California peninsula. Skylab 4, also known as SL-4 and
SLM-3, was the third manned Skylab mission and placed the third
and final crew aboard the first American space station. The
mission started on November 16, 1973 with the launch of astronauts
Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson and William R. Pogue on a Saturn
IB rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida and lasted 84
days, one hour and 16 minutes. A total of 6,051
astronaut-utilization hours were tallied by Skylab 4 astronauts
performing scientific experiments in the areas of medical
activities, solar observations, Earth resources, observation of
the Comet Kohoutek and other experiments. The manned Skylab
missions were officially designated Skylab 2, 3, and 4.
Mis-communication about the numbering resulted in the mission
emblems reading Skylab I, Skylab II, and Skylab 3 respectively.
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Today's
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Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1238: Mongol Invasions And
Conquests: The Mongol Invasion of Kievan Rus' (The Mongol Invasion
Of Rus): The Siege Of Vladimir: -- Mongols (called "Tartars"
in contemporary Rus' accounts) of the Golden Horde under Batu Khan
overrun and raze by fire the Russian city of Vladimir
(Vladimir-Suzdal [Russian: Vladimirsko-Suzdal'skaya]), also known
as Vladimir-Suzdalian Rus', formally known as the Grand Duchy of
Vladimir). A great fire destroyed thirty-two limestone buildings
on the first day alone, while the grand prince's family perished
in a church where they sought refuge from the flames. The grand
prince escaped, but was killed at the Battle of the Sit River the
following month. After the Mongols destroyed the city, Vladimir
never fully recovered. The principality became a self-governed
state headed by its own nobility, a governorship of principality
prescribed by a jarlig (declaration by the Khan) issued from the
Golden Horde to a Rurikid sovereign. The most important Rus prince
(usually the Prince of Moscow, but sometimes a Tver or another
principality) was styled the Grand Prince of Vladimir, but the
title had become an honorific symbol of majesty. Despite these
declines, Vladimir-Suzdal gradually evolved into the Grand Duchy
of Moscow, and is traditionally perceived as a cradle of the Great
Russian language and nationality.
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Today's
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In WWII Frank Race & Cloak And Dagger Radio MP3, CD, USB Drive
Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1959: #DOTD: #RIP: William J.
Donovan, widely known as Wild Bill Donovan, American soldier,
lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, regarded as the
founding father of the CIA, for which a statue of him stands in
the lobby of the CIA headquarters building in Langley, Virginia,
decorated veteran of World War I, believed to be the only person
to have been awarded all four of the prestigious decorations 1)
the Medal of Honor, 2) the Distinguished Service Cross, 3) the
Distinguished Service Medal, and 4) the National Security Medal,
recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, as well as
decorations from a number of other nations for his service during
both World Wars, best known for serving during World War II as the
head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to
the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) (b. January 1, 1883) #dies at the age of
76 from complications of vascular dementia at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Donovan had begun experiencing
symptoms of dementia while in Thailand, and he was hospitalized in
1957. While in the hospital, he "imagined he saw the Red Army
coming over the 59th Street bridge, into Manhattan, and in one
memorable last mission, fled the hospital, wandering down the
street in his pajamas." Shortly before his death, he was
visited by Eisenhower, who later told a friend that Donovan was
"the last hero". Upon learning of his death, the CIA
sent a cable to its station chiefs: "The man more responsible
than any other for the existence of the Central Intelligence
Agency has passed away." He is buried in Section 2 of
Arlington National Cemetery. After his death, Donovan was awarded
the Freedom Award of the International Rescue Committee, founded
in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein. William Joseph Donovan
KBE (Knight Commander Of The Most Excellent Order Of The British
Empire) was born in Buffalo, New York, to Anna Letitia "Tish"
Donovan (nee Lennon; same family name as John Lennon, English
singer, songwriter, musician and founder of The Beatles) and
Timothy P. Donovan, both American-born children of Irish
immigrants. Donovan founded the white-shoe law firm Donovan,
Leisure, Newton & Irvine in 1929 (a white-shoe firm is a term
used to describe prestigious professional services firms that have
been traditionally associated with the upper-class elite who
graduated from Ivy League colleges, most often used to describe
leading old-line law firms and Wall Street financial institutions,
and accounting firms that are over a century old); it was
dissolved in 1998. His home in Chapel Hill near Berryville,
Virginia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2004.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: A
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Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1916: #BOTD: #HBD! John
Sweet, US Army sergeant serving in the UK in World War II when he
was selected by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger to play the
role of Sgt. Bob Johnson, one of the three pilgrims in the 1944
feature film A Canterbury Tale (d. July 5, 2011) is #born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. After the movie, he went back to the
United States and made a few attempts at an acting career, notably
in theater, but finally decided to go back to his original
profession, teaching. Sweet returned to Canterbury in October 2000
to join Sheila Sim for a Michael Powell celebration and gave a
20-minute interview in the documentary "A Pilgrim's Return"
by Nick Burton and Eddie McMillan. This documentary is featured in
the Criterion Collection DVD of the film. The soft-spoken Sweet
provides details about the shooting of the movie, his relationship
with Michael Powell and the rest of the crew, and the effect the
film has had on his life. Sweet stated that "The few months I
spent making the film were the most profound and influential of my
life". Sweet was paid 2K USD for working on A Canterbury
Tale, all of which he donated to the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, a remarkable gesture for the time.
Sweet died at home in Fearrington Village, North Carolina, on July
5, 2011, aged 95. His burial details are not publicly disclosed.
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Today, February 8, 2026February 8, 1725: #DOTD: #RIP: Peter I
(Russian: Pyotr I Alekseyevich), famously known as Peter The
Great, Tsar of all Russia from 1682 (he jointly ruled with his
elder half-brother, Ivan V, until 1696), founder and first Emperor
of The Russian Empire (Emperor Of All Russia) from 1721 until his
death in 1725, primarily responsible for the modernisation of the
country and transforming it into a major European power, founder
of the city of Saint Petersburg, which remained the capital of
Russia until 1918 (b. June 9, 1672) #dies in St. Petersburg
between four and five in the morning of gangrene of the bladder
caused by uremia, aged fifty-two years and seven months, having
reigned forty-two years. He was succeeded by his wife Catherine.
He is interred in Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint
Petersburg, Russia. The first Russian university, Saint Petersburg
State University, was founded a year before his death, in 1724.
The second one, Moscow State University, was founded 30 years
after his death, during the reign of his daughter Elizabeth. Peter
The Great was born Peter Romanov in Moscow, Tsardom of Russia.
Through a number of successful wars, he captured ports at Azov and
the Baltic Sea, laying the groundwork for the Imperial Russian
Navy, ending uncontested Swedish supremacy in the Baltic, and
beginning Russia's expansion into an empire. He led a cultural
revolution that replaced some of the backward, traditionalist and
medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern,
scientific, Westernised, and based on the Enlightenment, turning
his country into a major power in the Western world. Among his
accomplishments, he completely overhauled the government, the
Greek Orthodox Church, the military system and tax structure;
established printing presses and published translations of foreign
books; modernized the calendar; simplified the Russian alphabet;
and introduced Arabic numerals. Peter's reforms had a lasting
impact on Russia, and many institutions of the Russian government
trace their origins to his reign. Following his victory in the
Great Northern War, he adopted the title of emperor in 1721.
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Today, February 8, 2026( #JCKaelin here: When I first saw Mary
Wilson, one of my earliest and most vivid memories, she was on the
TV show Shindig with The Supremes in 1965, when I was just 4 years
old. I was transfixed gazing at her, thinking she looked so pretty
and graceful - but even at that young age, I knew my fascination
was much more than just that. My aunt noticed my motionless and
stunned fascination, and she shouted to the rest of her many
siblings "Uh oh! Looks like Jimmy likes Black girls!"
Well, what's not to love about Black girls?!?!? It was not until
many years later, when I became a historical media publisher of
some little note, that I discovered most certainly why I was
transfixed gazing at her way back then: she was to become for all
of us, and for me particularly, the unofficial, but very certain,
historian of Motown! So much of what we know know about Motown and
all the people involved with the most successful black music label
in history comes from her quiet as a pretty wise owl self - not
only the history of it all, but even more importantly, her fine
insights into what it all meant. What a woman! God bless you &
keep you, Mary Wilson, and I'll see you again, day after day, as I
have done for many years, whenever I happily deal with the history
of Motown you bequethed us! ) ========= February 8, 2021: #DOTD:
#RIP: Mary Wilson, African American singer and both founding
member and longest member of The Supremes (b. March 6, 1944) #dies
in her sleep from hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular
disease at her home in Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas,
at the age of 76. Motown founder Berry Gordy said he was
"extremely shocked and saddened" by the news of her
death and said Wilson was "quite a star in her own right and
over the years continued to work hard to boost the legacy of the
Supremes." Diana Ross reflected on Wilson's death, posting on
Twitter: "I am reminded that each day is a gift. I have so
many wonderful memories of our time together. 'The Supremes' will
live on in our hearts." Wilson was interred next to her son
Rafael on March 16, 2021, at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City,
California. Mary Wilson was born in Greenville, Mississippi to
Sam, a butcher, and Johnnie Mae Wilson. She was the eldest of
three children including a brother, Roosevelt, and a sister,
Cathy. The Wilsons moved to Chicago, Illinois, part of the Great
Migration in which her father joined many African Americans
seeking work in the North, but at age three, Mary Wilson was taken
in by her aunt Ivory "I.V." and uncle John L. Pippin in
Detroit, Michigan. Her parents eventually separated, and Mary's
mother and siblings came to join them in Detroit, though by then
Mary had come to believe I.V. was her real mother. The then all
settled in the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, a housing
project in Detroit. where Wilson first met Florence Ballard. The
duo became friends while singing in their school's talent show. In
1959, Ballard asked Wilson to audition for Milton Jenkins, who was
forming a sister group to his male vocal trio, the Primes (two
members of which, Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams, were later in
The Temptations). Wilson was soon accepted into the group known as
The Primettes, along with Diana Ross and Betty McGlown, who lived
in the same housing project with Wilson and Ballard. During this
time, Wilson also met Aretha Franklin, and her sisters Erma and
Carolyn Franklin, who were daughters of the pastor at her local
Baptist church. In 1960, The Primettes signed a contract with Lu
Pine Records, issuing two singles, one of which Wilson sang lead
vocals, "Pretty Baby". During that year, they kept
pursuing a Motown contract and agreed to do anything that was
required, including adding handclaps and vocal backgrounds. By the
end of the year, Berry Gordy reluctantly agreed to have the group
record songs in the studio. In January 1961, Gordy relented and
agreed to sign the girls to his label on the condition they change
their name. Motown lyricist Janie Bradford approached Ballard with
a list of names to choose from before Ballard chose "Supremes".
Eventually, Gordy agreed to sign them under that name on January
15, 1961. The group struggled in their early years in comparison
to other Motown acts, garnering the nickname "No-Hit
Supremes" as a result. One track, "Buttered Popcorn",
led by Ballard, was a regional hit, but still failed to chart. In
December 1963, the single "When the Lovelight Starts Shining
Through His Eyes", written by Motown's powerhouse songwriting
and production team of Holland-Dozier-Holland (Lamont Dozier and
brothers Brian and Eddie Holland) with Diana Ross singing lead ,
peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. As a result of the
single's success, Gordy assigned Diana Ross as the group's lead
singer. In the spring of 1964, the Supremes released "Where
Did Our Love Go", which became their first number-one hit on
the Billboard Hot 100, paving the way for ten number-one hits
recorded by Ross, Ballard, and Wilson between 1964 and 1967.Mary
Wilson remained with The Supremes following the departures of
other original members, Florence Ballard in 1967 and Diana Ross in
1970. Following Wilson's own departure in 1977, the group
disbanded. Wilson has since released three solo albums, five
singles and two best-selling autobiographies, Dreamgirl: My Life
As a Supreme, a record setter for sales in its genre, and Supreme
Faith: Someday We'll Be Together; both books later were released
as an updated combination. Continuing a successful career as a
concert performer, Wilson also became a musicians' rights activist
as well as a musical theater performer and organizer of various
museum displays of the Supremes' famed costumes. Wilson was
inducted along with Ross and Ballard (as members of the Supremes)
into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1988. #MaryWilson
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