Today is Friday, February 8, the 39th day of 2013. There are 326 days left in the year.
1622 ― King James I disbands the English parliament
1895 ― Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake" premieres in Petersburg
1942 ― Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort
1965 ― Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
1969 ― Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
1975 ― 1,800 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1976 ― Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China
1977 ― Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced
1984 ― First time eight people in space
1985 ― Opposition leader Kim Dae-jung returns to South Korea