FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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