Today is Tuesday, February 8, the 39th day of 2011. There are 326 days left in the year.
1587 ― Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded
1622 ― King James I disbands the English parliament
1775 ― Leidse University 400th anniversary dinner
1895 ― Tchaikovsky/Petipa's ``Swan Lake" premieres in Petersburg
1918 ― ``Stars & Stripes", weekly U.S. armed forces newspaper, first published
1920 ― Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
1975 ― 1,800 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1976 ― Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China
1993 ― Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
1998 ― First female ice hockey game in Olympics history ― Finland beats Sweden 6-0