Today in History: Winter Olympic Games Started in Sarajevo

February 8 is the 39nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 days left until the end of the year (327 in leap years).

Railways

• February 8, 1918 1100 rails, 12 bridges, 25 telegraph pillars and 11 rails near Cüda Station were destroyed by Hicaz Railway on February 1200. Medina's contact with the north has come to a breaking point.

Events

• 1587 - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was beheaded. Queen Mary, who was executed after 19 years in prison, was accused of plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I.
• 1904 – Russo-Japanese War begins when the Japanese make a surprise attack on the Chinese port of Port Arthur, destroying the Russian fleet and preventing its passage.
• 1915 – by DW Griffith Birth of a Nation (The Birth of a Nation) was shown for the first time in Los Angeles.
• 1919 – French General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, who was appointed to Istanbul as the Commander of the Occupation Forces, entered Istanbul with his so-called show of strength by passing over the Turkish Flag with his horse.
• 1922 – US President Warren G. Harding introduced the first radio at the White House.
• 1924 – Capital punishment: Nevada became the first state in the USA to carry out the death penalty by using gas.
• 1935 – Turkish Grand National Assembly 5th term elections were held.
• 1937 – The Forest Law was passed.
• 1958 - Bobby Fischer is only 15 years old and becomes World chess champion.
• 1962 – Police intervene in protesters against the Secret Army bombings in France; 8 people died.
• 1962 – The Tourism Bank of the Republic of Turkey started its activities.
• 1963 – All kinds of travel, financial and commercial relations between US citizens and Cuba were banned by the John F. Kennedy administration.
• 1963 – Baathist officers led by Abdüsselam Arif seized power in Iraq, Prime Minister Abdülkerim Kasım was killed.
• 1974 - The American space station Skylab returned to Earth after 84 days in space.
• 1974 – Military coup in Upper Volta.
• 1976 – Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck were broadcast on TRT television.
• 1976 – England had to defend itself in Strasbourg. There were allegations about Britain that he tortured IRA (Irish Republican Army) defendants.
• 1980: The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): 6 trucks selling food belonging to Migros were abducted in Istanbul, the food was looted, the trucks were destroyed. 4 stores were looted in Ankara.
• 1980 – Tariş events: Tariş workers occupied some parts of the enterprise. Workers at Çiğli İplik Factory closed the factory doors and set up barricades.
• 1984 – Winter Olympic Games started in Sarajevo.
• 1989 – A Boeing 707 passenger plane crashes in the Azores, off Portugal: 144 people are killed.
• 1990 – Hope was lost from the 63 workers who were buried in Amasya Yeniceltek. The air shafts of the mine were concreted. The death toll in the firedamp explosion that occurred the day before has reached 66.
• 1992 – Unal Erkan was appointed as the State of Emergency Regional Governor.
• 1999 – King Hussein of Jordan was buried in a ceremony in Amman.
• 2000 – The 10th Chamber of the Council of State unanimously rejected the request of Merve Kavakçı, who was elected as Istanbul Deputy from the FP, to annul the Council of Ministers Decision regarding the loss of Turkish citizenship.
• 2001 – The lawsuit filed by the Bonn Chief Public Prosecutor's Office against former Prime Minister Helmut Kohl within the framework of the case regarding the dark donations to the Christian-Democratic Party (CDU) was closed with the payment of a fine of 150 thousand Euros.
• 2001 – President Ahmet Necdet Sezer did not sign the draft decree allowing the burials of Esad Coşan and his son-in-law Ali Yücel Uyarel to the Süleymaniye Mosque cemetery and sent it back to the Prime Ministry.
• 2002 – The 6th Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court overturned the convictions regarding various prison sentences given to 5 defendants in the " Yüksekova Gang" case.
• 2002 - The Winter Olympics started in Salt Lake City.
• 2004 - American singer Beyoncé wins five Grammy Awards.
• 2005 – A ceasefire was reached with an agreement signed in Egypt between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Births

• 412 – Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 485)
• 882 – Muhammed bin Toğaç, founder of the Ihşidi dynasty himself from Fergana (d. 946)
• 1191 – II. Yaroslav, Grand prince of Vladimir from 1238 to 1246 (d. 1246)
• 1591 – Guercino, Italian painter (d. 1666)
• 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist (d. 1772)
• 1700 – Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1782)
• 1720 – Sakuramachi, 115th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (d. 1750)
• 1741 – André Ernest Modeste Grétry, French opera composer (d. 1813)
• 1787 – Giovanni Gussone, Italian academic and botanist (d. 1866)
• 1819 – John Ruskin, English writer, poet, art and society critic (d. 1900)
• 1823 – Károly Alexy, Hungarian sculptor (d. 1880)
• 1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English naturalist and explorer (d. 1892)
• 1828 Jules Verne, French writer (d. 1905)
• 1828 – Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1897)
• 1830 – Abdulaziz, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1876)
• 1834 – Dmitry Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
• 1845 – Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Irish philosopher and political economist (d. 1926)
• 1845 – Anton Weichselbaum, Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist (d. 1920)
• 1851 – Kate Chopin, American short story writer (d. 1904)
• 1856 – Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville, French industrialist and engineer (d. 1901)
• 1856 – Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)
• 1859 – Gabriele Reuter, German woman of letters (d. 1941)
• 1867 – Antonius Johannes Jurgens, German manufacturer (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Mehmed Reşit Bey, Ottoman soldier and statesman (d. 1919)
• 1876 ​​– Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (d. 1907)
• 1878 – Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher (d. 1965)
• 1880 – Franz Marc, German painter (d. 1916)
• 1880 – Malik Bushati, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1946)
• 1883 – Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Austrian economist and political scientist (d. 1950)
• 1888 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, and academic (d. 1970)
• 1888 – Edith Evans, English film and stage actress (d. 1976)
• 1894 – King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982)
• 1895 – Horloogiyn Choibalsan, Mongolian communist politician and field marshal (d. 1952)
• 1897 – Zakir Hussein, 3rd President of India (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Tunku Abdulrahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
• 1906 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor of the photocopy (d. 1968)
• 1921 – Kemal Kafalı, Turkish academic and Rector of ITU (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Lana Turner, American actress and actress (d. 1995)
• 1925 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Diamando Kumbaki, Greek partisan and activist (Greek Resistance partisan who fought against the Axis Powers during World War II) (d. 1944)
• 1928 – Osian Ellis, Welsh musician, composer and educator (d. 2021)
• 1931 – James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
• 1931 – George Whitmore, American mountaineer and environmentalist (d. 2021)
• 1932 - John Williams, American composer
• 1933 – Uno Palu, Estonian decathlete
• 1934 – Erk Yurtsever, Turkish poet, writer and Turkologist (d. 2017)
• 1940 – Ted Koppel, American journalist
• 1941 – Nick Nolte, American actor
• 1944 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (d. 2014)
• 1946 – James Franklin Jeffrey, American diplomat and former US Ambassador to Ankara
• 1957 – Mehmet Ali Erbil, Turkish actor and showman
• 1961 – Vince Neil, American rock musician and vocalist of the band (Mötley Crüe)
• 1962 – Mehmet Çepic, Turkish actor and voice actor
• 1966 – Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian football player
• 1968 – Budi Anduk, Indonesian actor (d. 2016)
• 1969 – Andrea Orlando, Italian politician
• 1970 – Cüneyt Özdemir, Turkish journalist, presenter and writer
• 1971 – Arif Kilisli, Turkish actor
• 1974 – Seth Green, American actor, comedian, voice actor, television producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Gökhan Tepe, Turkish singer, actor and composer
• 1980 – Bilge Kösebalaban, Turkish musician and Direc-t band guitarist and vocalist
• 1981 – Steve Gohouri, Ivory Coast football player (d. 2015)
• 1983 – Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian football player
• 1984 – Manon Flier, Dutch volleyball player
• 1987 – Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater
• 1989 – Bronte Barratt, Australian swimmer
• 1990 – Zeynep Tuğçe Bayat, Turkish actress
• 1990 – Ozan Kozan, Turkish radio host
• 1995 – Jordan Todosey, Canadian actor
• 1995 – Mijat Gaćinović, Serbian football player
• 1996 – Kennedy, Brazilian football player

Deaths

• 1204 – Nicholas, Byzantine emperor (b. ?)
• 1265 – Hulagu Khan, Mongolian Ruler, founder of the Ilkhanate State (b. 1217)
• 1587 – Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
• 1640 – IV. Murat, 17th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1612)
• 1696 – Ivan V, Tsar of Russia (b. 1666)
• 1709 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658)
• 1725 – Peter I, Tsar of Russia (b. 1672)
• 1751 – Nicola Salvi, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1697)
• 1804 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist and philosopher (b. 1733)
• 1813 – Tadeusz Czacki, Polish historian, pedagogue, and parascientist (b. 1765)
• 1829 – Cristóbal Mendoza, first prime minister of Venezuela (b. 1772)
• 1849 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (b. 1800)
• 1860 – Carl Edvard Rotwitt, Danish politician (b. 1812)
• 1874 – David Strauss, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1808)
• 1885 – Nikolay Severtzov, Russian natural historian (b. 1827)
• 1886 – Ivan Aksakov, Russian journalist and political writer (b. 1823)
• 1894 – Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish writer (b. 1825)
• 1906 – Johanna Hiedler, maternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1830)
• 1921 – ‎George Formby Sr‎‎, English actor and singer (‎b. 1876)
• 1921 – Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Russian writer and anarchist theorist (b. 1842)
• 1935 – Max Liebermann, German painter and graphic artist (b. 1847)
• 1936 – Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
• 1945 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (b. 1886)
• 1946 – Felix Hoffmann, German chemist, inventor, and pharmacist (b. 1868)
• 1954 – Abidin Daver, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1886)
• 1957 – Walther Bothe, German mathematician, chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1891)
• 1963 – Ali Saim Ülgen, Turkish architect and restorer (b. 1913)
• 1963 – Ernst Glaeser, German writer (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (b. 1898)
• 1978 – Ahmet Kemal Atay, Turkish academician and founder of Capa Medical Faculty Surgery Clinic (b. 1890)
• 1982 – Lauri Virtanen, Finnish athlete (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Del Shannon, American singer (suicide) (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Halldor Laxness, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1999 – Iris Murdoch, Irish writer and philosopher (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Ahmet Kabakli, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Cem Karaca, Turkish rock music artist, composer, theater actor and film actor (b. 1945)
• 2007 – Anna Nicole Smith, American actress (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Haluk Cecan, Turkish underwater documentarian (b. 1946)
• 2010 – John Murtha, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Eşref Aydın, Turkish athlete (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Maicon, Brazilian football player (b. 1988)
• 2015 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician, author and ufologist (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Müzeyyen Senar, Turkish Classical Music artist (b. 1918)
• 2016 – Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
• 2017 – Zeynep Işık, Turkish violinist (b. 1968)
• 2017 – Peter Mansfield, British scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Lauterbur (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Alan Simpson, British screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2018 – Ben Agajanian, American football player (b. 1919)
• 2018 – Zernigar Ağakişyeva, Azerbaijani theater and film actress (b. 1945)
• 2018 – Jarrod Bannister, Australian javelin thrower (b. 1984)
• 2018 – Marie Gruber, German actress (b. 1955)
• 2018 – Lovebug Starski, American rapper (b. 1960)
• 2019 – Dick Kempthorn, Former American football player and businessman (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Walter Munk, American-Austrian oceanographer, geologist, academic, and scientist (b. 1917)
• 2019 – Sergey Yurski, Soviet-Russian actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Robert Conrad, American actor, singer, and stuntman (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Paula Kelly, American actress, dancer, and singer (b. 1942)
• 2021 – Roza Akkucukova, Russian-Soviet pop singer (b. 1950)
• 2021 – Jean-Claude Carrière, Academy Honorary French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and director (b. 1931)
• 2021 – Carla Cimenti, Italian mountaineer (b. 1975)
• 2021 – Graham Day, English professional football player (b. 1953)
• 2021 – Adam Kopczyński, Polish ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 2021 – Cyril Mango, British expert on the history, art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire (b. 1928)
• 2021 – Rynagh O'Grady, Irish actor (b. 1951)
• 2021 – Mary Wilson, American vocalist (b. 1944)
• 2021 – Beatriz Yamamoto Cázarez, Mexican politician (b. 1957)
• 2022 – Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1932)