WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Today is Wednesday, February 8, the 39th day of 2012. There 327 days left in the year.

421 ― Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman empire

1587 ― Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded

1600 ― Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death

1622 ― King James I disbands the English parliament

1895 ― Tchaikovsky/Petipa's ``Swan Lake" premieres in Petersburg

1920 ― Swiss men vote against women's suffrage

1975 ― 1,800 Unification Church couples' wed in Korea

1977 ― Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced

1984 ― First time eight people in space

1985 ― Opposition leader Kim Dae-jung returns to South Korea