Year 1785
Warren Hastings, who was the Governor-General from 1774 to 1785, left India.
FEBRUARY 8
Daily Historical Chronicle
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8 February: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 8 February.
Year 1849
The Roman Republic was formed.
Year 1872
Lord Mayo, Viceroy of India, was killed by a prisoner named Sher Ali in the Andaman Islands.
Year 1899
Ganesh Shankar Dravid and Ramchandra Shankar Dravid, who told the British government the names of the Chafekar brothers who killed W. C. Rand, were shot dead by Vasudev Chafekar and Mahadev Ranade.
Year 1905
Ten thousand people died due to the severe cyclonic storm that struck Haiti and its surrounding islands.
Year 1943
Freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left for Japan via a ferry from Kell, Germany.
Year 1986
Prepaid taxi service started for the first time at Delhi Airport.
Year 1994
Cricketer Kapil Dev cracked Richard Headley’s world record for highest wickets in Test matches with 432 wickets.
Year 1996
The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
Year 2000
The government of Maharashtra decided to celebrate Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s birth anniversary on 19th February.
Year 2005
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.
Year 2010
A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
Year 2013
A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.2014: A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
Born 1700
Daniel Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician, and physicist.
Born 1828
Jules Verne, a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
Born 1834
Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist, and inventor.
Born 1897
Zakir Husain, an Indian economist, politician, and the third President of India.
Born 1941
Jagjit Singh, an Indian ghazal singer.
Born 1925
Shobha Gurtu, an Indian singer.
Born 1963
Mohammad Azharuddin, an Indian politician, a former cricketer.
Born 1964
Santosh Sivan, Indian director, cinematographer, producer, and actor
Died 1725
Peter the Great, the emperor of Russia.
Died 1971
K. Munshi, an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer, and educationist from the Gujarat state.
Died 1975
Robert Robinson, a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate.
Died 1995
Kalpana Datta, an Indian independence movement activist and a member of the armed independence movement led by Surya Sen
Died 2016
Nida Fazli, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1938)