February 8th

Today is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 317 days remaining until the end of time.

1692 A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials.  Witch hunts continue. . .There will be someone else targeted soon.

 

1936 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota

1942 Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort despite the 4th, 5th, 8th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.

 

1965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"

1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg), but Crosby, Stills and Nash didn’t write a song about them.

1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial and homophobic remarks attributed to him by the Advocate

1992 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1.  You're damned skippy about that!

1925 Jack Lemmon, US actor

1931 James Dean, purportedly gay US actor

1941 Nick Nolte, US actor/former Sexiest Man on Earth.  Great buns, though.

1961 Vince Neil, US singer/guitarist (Mötley Crüe)

1970 Roman Knizka, German actor

1974 Seth Green, US actor/comedian/producer

1974 Joshua Morrow, US actor

1975 Jonah Blechman, US actor

1981 Julien Rivier, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model

1982 Erik Rhodes, US porn star

1983 Jim Verraros, US gay actor/singer/American Idol contestant

1587 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), loses her head while those around her are keeping theirs

1924 Gee Jon, U.S. mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), <gasp><gasp><gasp>

2007 Anna Nicole Smith [Vickie Lynn Marshall], American model, actress, and entertainer, takes it to the limit

2007 Ian Stevenson, Canadian-US professor and reincarnation expert, finds a flaw in his ontology.