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Historical events & facts — February 8
What happened on February 8?
On February 8, 1915, the silent film "The Birth of a Nation" by D. W. Griffith premiered in Los Angeles — technically revolutionary but infamous for its glorification of the Ku Klux Klan and explicit racism. The film provoked racial riots in several cities and was the first to be screened at the White House, for President Woodrow Wilson.
On February 8, 1963, the Baath party carried out a coup in Iraq and killed Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim, who had governed the country since the 1958 revolution. The coup was covertly supported by the CIA, which provided lists of communists for elimination. The Baath party would govern Iraq, with interruptions, until the American invasion of 2003.
On February 8, 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle on the orders of her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England, after nineteen years of imprisonment. Mary had been accused of conspiring to murder Elizabeth and seize the throne. Her execution triggered a diplomatic crisis with Scotland and Spain, which the following year sent its Spanish Armada.
Notable birthdays — February 8
Famous people born on February 8
Viktor Schwanneke
Viktor Eduard Julius Schwanneke was a German stage director and actor, writer, and film actor whose acting career began at the turn of the 20th century.
Danai Stratigopoulou
Danai Stratigopoulou was a Greek singer, writer, and university academic. She acquired recognition in the literary world for translating the works of the Chilean nobel laureate Pablo Neruda into the Greek language.
Birgitte Reimer
Birgitte Reimer was a Danish film actress. She appeared in 17 films between 1947 and 1964. Reimer died in April 2021 at the age of 95.
Ted Koppel
Edward James Martin Koppel is an American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline, from the program's inception in 1980 until 2005.
Valerie Thomas
Valerie L. Thomas is an American data scientist and inventor. She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. She was responsible for developing the digital media formats that image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program.
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