February 08: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1992  Baruch Lumet, actor (Killer Shrews), dies at 93   

1993  GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires.   

1993  Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die.   

1993  Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies.   

1994  Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car   

1994  Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432   

1994  Ottawa slashes tobacco taxes to reduce rampant cigarette smuggling; and they say crime doesn't pay?.   

1994  Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70   

1995  6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed).   

1995  In Ottawa Romeo LeBlanc sworn in as Canada's 25th Governor General   

1995  B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70.   

1996  US bookstore chain Borders says it will invest in a chain of bookstores in Canada; Ottawa will block the plan under the cultural exemption of NAFTA   

1997  In this year, Jean-Luc Brassard claims gold medal in free-style skiing at the World Championships in Nagano   

1998  The inaugural female ice hockey game in Olympics history Finland beats Sweden 6-0   

1999  A funeral service is held in Amman, Jordan, for King Hussein, who died the day before of cancer   

2005  Danish parliamentary elections continued the center-right coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his Liberal Party   

2006  2006 East Timor crisis: 404 soldiers desert their barracks in East Timor.   

2013  16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan   

2014  15 people are killed and 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia   

2017  US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests   

2018  Twitter reports its inaugural quarterly profit as a public company   

2018  Bangladesh court sentences former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to 5 years in prison for corruption.   

2019  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos accuses The National Enquirer and its owner, American Media Inc, of blackmail over private messages detailing an extramarital affair.   

2024  Pakistan election: In an upset independents backed by imprisoned Imran Khan 's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party win the most seats with 97, PML-N win 76, PPP 54 [1].   

2024  Pakistani general election: Independent politicians, most of whom are members of the banned political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, win a plurality of seats in the National Assembly.   

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