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Wednesday, 02 July 2025
1985 Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony-Millionaire), dies at 71 on this day in history. 
1986 On February - 08 a head on collision between a freight train and a passenger train near Hinton, Alberta claims 23 lives.
1986 On February - 08 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1987 On this day in history the West beat the East in the NBA All-Star Game. A record was set for total points scored. The West won 154-149 in overtime.
1987 On February - 08 bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies
1988 On February - 08 nASA launches DOD-2
1988 Allan Cuthbertson, actor (Running Man, 7th Dawn), dies at 67 on February - 08.
1989 144 people die when a Boeing 707 jetliner crashes into a fog-shrouded mountain in the Azores on this day in history.
1989 On February - 08 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
1989 Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81 on this day in history.
1990 On February - 08 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
1990 On this day in history del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 50
1991 Miran Bux, cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55), dies at 47 on this day in history.
1992 On this day in history "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
1992 16th Winter Olympics games open in Albertville, France on February - 08.
1992 On February - 08 ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
1992 On February - 08 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 on this day in history.
1993 On this day in history suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
1993 On this day in history casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies
1994 On February - 08 jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
1994 On this day in history kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
1994 Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm on February - 08.
1994 On February - 08 ottawa slashes tobacco taxes to reduce rampant cigarette smuggling; and they say crime doesn't pay?
1994 On February - 08 jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed) on February - 08.
1995 On this day in history in Ottawa Romeo LeBlanc sworn in as Canada's 25th Governor General
1995 B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70 on February - 08.
1996 On February - 08 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 On February - 08 jean-Luc Brassard wins gold medal in free-style skiing at the World Championships in Nagano
1998 The first female ice hockey game in Olympics history Finland beats Sweden 6-0 on this day in history.
1999 A funeral service is held in Amman, Jordan, for King Hussein, who died the day before of cancer on February - 08.
2005 On February - 08 danish parliamentary elections continued the center-right coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his Liberal Party.
2006 On this day in history 2006 East Timor crisis: 404 soldiers desert their barracks in East Timor.
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