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