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2/8/2015
« on: February 08, 2015, 12:00:49 AM »
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2015, 02:31:40 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2015, 02:37:02 AM »
Today is Sunday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2015. There are 326 days left in the year.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2015, 02:37:25 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 8, 1915, D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking as well as controversial silent movie epic about the Civil War, "The Birth of a Nation," premiered in Los Angeles.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2015, 02:38:07 AM »
On this date:

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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2015, 02:39:26 AM »
In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2015, 02:39:47 AM »
In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, ended in victory for Union forces led by Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2015, 02:40:16 AM »
1904, the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict over control of Manchuria and Korea, began as Japanese forces attacked Port Arthur.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2015, 02:40:38 AM »

In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2015, 02:41:13 AM »
In 1925, Academy Award-winning actor Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2015, 02:41:30 AM »
In 1942, during World War II, Japanese forces began invading Singapore, which fell a week later.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2015, 02:41:50 AM »
In 1952, Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed her accession to the British throne following the death of her father, King George VI.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2015, 02:42:24 AM »
In 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663, a DC-7, crashed shortly after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport; all 84 people on board were killed. The Supremes' record "Stop! In the Name of Love!" was released by Motown.
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2015, 02:42:58 AM »

In 1968, three college students were killed in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg
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Re: 2/8/2015
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2015, 02:43:30 AM »
In 1974, the last three-man crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth after spending 84 days in space. (Skylab remained in orbit another five years before plunging to its destruction in 1979.)
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