Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 8
February 8: Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras (2005).
- 1587 - Queen Mary I of Scotland was executed at Fotheringhay Castle on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began with a surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese on Russian ships near present-day Lüshunkou, China.
- 1971 - Trading began in NASDAQ, the world's first electronic stock exchange.
- 1979 - Colonel Denis Sassou-Nguesso was chosen as the new President of the People’s Republic of the Congo.
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