Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/February 8, 2021

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 * 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots (pictured), was executed at Fotheringhay Castle for her involvement in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Elizabeth I of England.
 * 1879 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming proposed the idea of standard time zones based on a single universal world time.
 * 1910 – Newspaper and magazine publisher William D. Boyce established the Boy Scouts of America, expanding the Scout Movement into the United States.
 * 1965 – After taking evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision just after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and exploded, killing all 84 people on board.
 * Born/died: | Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid |b|882| Daniele Barbaro |b|1514| Guercino |b|1591| Jules Verne |b|1828| Kate Chopin |b|1850| Walther Bothe |d|1957| Iris Murdoch |d|1999| A. Chandranehru |d|2005

February 8


 * 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, led a failed rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
 * 1837 – Richard Mentor Johnson became the only person ever to be elected Vice President of the United States by the Senate.
 * 1879 – Enraged by a controversial umpiring decision, cricket spectators rioted and attacked the England team during a match in Sydney, Australia.
 * 1960 – The official groundbreaking of the Walk of Fame (example star pictured) took place in Hollywood, California.
 * 2010 – A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggered a series of avalanches that buried over 3.5 km of road, killed 175 people and trapped more than 2,500 travellers.