On This Day
8 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1872 Lord Mayo, Viceroy of India, was assassinated by a prisoner during his visit to Andaman Islands.
- 1897 Dr Zakir Hussain, economist and politician who served as the third president of India, was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
- 1936 Jawaharlal Nehru elected president of Indian National Congress.
- 1941 Jagjit Singh, composer, singer and musician, was born. Dubbed "The Ghazal King" or "King of Ghazals", he composed and sang in numerous languages and is credited for the revival and popularity of ghazal, an Indian classical art form, by choosing poetry that was relevant to the masses and composing them in a way that laid more emphasis on the meaning of words and melody evoked by them.
- 1963 Mohammad Azharuddin, politician and a former international cricketer, was born.
- 1967 Indira Gandhi was struck in the face by a stone while addressing a crowd during an election campaign rally in Bhubaneswar, Orissa (now Odisha).
- 1986 Sister Alphonsa was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Kottayam, 40 years after her death. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour.
- 1999 General Krishnaswamy "Sundarji" Sundararajan, PVSM, Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1986 to 1988, died. He was the last former British Indian Army officer to command the Indian Army.
- 2016 Nida Fazli, prominent Indian Hindi and Urdu poet, lyricist and dialogue writer, died. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2013 by the government of India for his contribution to literature.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1672 Isaac Newton reads first optics paper before Royal Society in London.
- 1819 John Ruskin, English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era, was born. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. He is the author of Unto This Last, a book which had an everlasting impression on Mahatma Gandhi.
- 1828 Jules Verne, French novelist, poet and playwright, was born. Around the World in Eighty Days was one of his notable books.
- 1834 Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Russian chemist and inventor, was born. He is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements.
- 1924 The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
- 1952 Princess Elizabeth proclaims herself Queen at a ceremony in St James's Palace, London.
- 1955 The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
- 1955 John Grisham, American novelist and lawyer known for his popular legal thrillers, was born. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 28 consecutive number-one bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide.
- 2018 Bangladesh court sentences former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to 5 years in prison for corruption.
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