| February 8th 1896 | | Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris
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| February 8th 1896 | | Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf
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| February 8th 1898 | | John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass)
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| February 8th 1904 | | Russo-Japanese War begins
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| February 8th 1905 | | Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
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| February 8th 1908 | | Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth
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| February 8th 1909 | | France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
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| February 8th 1910 | | Boy Scouts of America incorporated & chartered (William D Boyce-Chic)
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| February 8th 1911 | | Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in NYC
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| February 8th 1911 | | US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras
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| February 8th 1912 | | 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
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| February 8th 1914 | | General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
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| February 8th 1915 | | "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
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| February 8th 1916 | | French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
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| February 8th 1916 | | NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25› seats
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