Saturday February 8, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and day ago
  • months since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

The Devil’s Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
D.W. Griffith’s controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
Military coup in Upper Volta.
Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia’s second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 m deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
The massive Internet collaboration “24 Hours in Cyberspace” takes place.

Who were born on ?

Moses Gomberg, Russian-born American chemist (d. 1947)
Claro M. Recto, Filipino nationalist (d. 1960)
Bill Finger, American comic book writer (d. 1974)
Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)
Joe Raposo, American composer (d. 1989)
Cristina Ferrare, American former supermodel and actress
Robert Nebřenský, Czech actor and musician
Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger, German author
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)
Danny Tamberelli, American actor

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