Effemeride del 08 Febbraio

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1922 : Radio installed at the White House On 8th february,1922, President Harding had a radio installed at the White House.
1962 : Charonne Massacre On February 8, 1962, following a wave of bombings by OAS, an anti-OAS demonstration, organized by the Communist Party, was violently suppressed by the police. 9 people were killed.
1983 : Aga Khan's horse, Shergar, stolen On February 8, 1983, Shergar, a 5-year-old stallion, belonging to the Aga Khan which was worth $13.5 million was stolen in Ireland. The horse has never been found, and the kidnappers have never been identified.
2002 : Salt Lake City Winter Olympics On February 8th, 2002 the Winter Olympics Games opened in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 234 medals were distributed with 4 for the Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen who won the gold medal in the 4 races of the discipline.

Jules Verne
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Agrippa d'Aubigné, Poeta francese (1552)
Samuel Butler, Poeta inglese (1612)
Jacques Cassini, Astronomo francese (1677)
Charles-Jean-François Hénault, Storico francese (1685)
Sakuramachi, Imperatore del Giappone (1720)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Generale americano (1820)
Jules Verne, Scrittore francese (1828)
Dmitri Mendeleev, Chimico russo (1834)
Charles Ruggles, Attore americano (1886)
King Vidor, Regista americano (1894)
Elizabeth Bishop, Poeta americana (1911)
William Darby, Ufficiale dell'esercito americano (1911)
Lana Turner, Attrice americana (1921)
Jack Lemmon, Attore e regista americano (1925)
James Dean, Attore americano (1931)
John Williams, Compositor y director de orquesta (1932)
Nick Nolte, Attore americano (1941)
Ron Tyson, Cantante americano (The Temptations) (1948)
Mary Steenburgen, Attrice americana (1953)
Bruno Labbadia, Calciatore tedesco (1966)
Gary Coleman, Attore americano (1968)
Seth Green, Attore americano (1974)
Stephen Wright, Calciatore inglese (1980)
Carolina Kostner, Pattinatore italiana (1987)

Mary, Regina di Scozia (1587)
Pierre le Grand, Zar di Russia (1725)
François Antoine Habeneck, Violinista francese (1849)
Walther Bothe, Fisico tedesco, premio Nobel (1957)
Robert Robinson, Chimico inglese, premio Nobel (1975)
Halldór Laxness, Islandese scrittore, premio Nobel (1998)
Ong Teng Cheong, Presidente di Singapore (2002)
Anna Nicole Smith, Modello americano (2007)