February 8
People born on this day are Aquarius.
- 1963
The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
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Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing all 84 people on board.
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American civil rights movement: An attack on Black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation leaves three dead and 28 injured in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration into the country.
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The crew of Skylab 4, the last mission to visit the American space station Skylab, returns to Earth after 84 days in space.
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Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, making it one of the worst rail accidents in Canada.
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Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores, killing all 144 passengers on board.
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An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 and an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 collide mid-air near Qods, Iran, killing all 133 people on board both aircraft.
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Over 2 miles (3.2 km) of road are buried after a storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of avalanches, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 others.
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A blizzard kills at least 18 and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
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A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia, kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
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A soldier opens fire in a military camp and a shopping center in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, killing 29 people and injuring 58 others before being shot dead by police the next day. It is considered the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history.
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2001I.N, South Korean singer
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1999Alessia Russo, English footballer
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1998Rui Hachimura, Japanese basketball player
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1997Kathryn Newton, American actress
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1996Kenedy, Brazilian footballer
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1996Leighton Vander Esch, American football player
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1995Gabriel Deck, Argentine basketball player
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1995Joshua Kimmich, German footballer
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1994Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer
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1994Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter
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1992Bruno Martins Indi, Portuguese-Dutch footballer
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1991Nam Woo-hyun, South Korean singer
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