February 8: Feast day of Saint Josephine Bakhita (Catholicism); Military Foundation Day in North Korea (1948)South Carolina Highway Patrolmen before the Orangeburg Massacre421 Honorius declaredConstantiusIII to be his co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire.1250 Seventh Crusade: The Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt defeated and captured King LouisIX of France at the Battle of Fariskur.1575 William of Orange founded Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands.1960 The official groundbreaking of the Walk of Fame took place in Hollywood, Los Angeles, in California.1968 Law enforcement officers in Orangeburg, South Carolina (pictured), fired into a crowd of college students who were protesting segregation, killing three and injuring twenty-seven others.Jack Lemmon (b.1925)Valerie Thomas (b.1943)A.Chandranehru (d.2005)Mary Wilson (d.2021)More anniversaries: February 7February 8February 9ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout