Daily Calendar for February 8th, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1690s

• 1690: French and Indians attacked Schenectady, New York

• 1693: College of William & Mary chartered.

1720s

• Died 1725: Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great)

1800s

• 1802: Simon Willard granted patent for the banjo clock

1820s

• Born 1825: Henry Walter Bates (naturalist)

• Born 1828: Jules Verne (writer)

1870s

• 1879: Sandford Fleming proposed Universal Standard Time, Toronto, Ontario

1890s

• Born 1894: King Vidor (director of film)

1910s

• 1910: Boy Scouts of America incorporated

• 1918: "Stars and Stripes" newspaper published for the first time

1920s

• 1922: President Harding had the first radio installed in the White House

• Born 1925: Jack Lemmon (actor)

• Born 1929: Thelma Chalifoux (politician)

1930s

• Born 1931: James Dean (actor)

• Born 1932: John Williams (composer)

• 1936: Jay Berwanger became the first player to be drafted by the National Football League

1940s

• Born 1940: Ted Koppel (newscaster)

1950s

• Born 1953: Mary Steenburgen (actress)

• Born 1955: John Grisham (author)

1960s

• 1963: JFK administration banned travel of U.S. citizens to Cuba

• 1969: Last issue of Saturday Evening Post until the magazine's 1971 re-emergence

1970s

• Born 1974: Seth Green (actor)

1980s

• Died 1982: John Hay Whitney (multimillionaire)

• 1986: Debi Thomas won Women's Singles, U.S. National Figure Skating Championship

1990s

• Died 1994: Raymond Scott (composer)

• Born 1995: Jordan Todosey (actress)

2000s

• 2001: Disney's California Adventure Park opened

• Died 2002: William Dillard, Sr. (founder of the retail chain Dillard's)

• 2005: Ellen MacArthur set a new world record by sailing around the world in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds

• Died 2007: Joe Edwards (cartoonist)