February 08:
1587: Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth, her cousin.
1828: Jules Verne born.
1836: Davy Crockett and his "Tennessee Mounted Volunteers" arrive at the Alamo.
1837: When no Vice Presidential candidated received a majority of the electoral votes, the U.S. Senate picked the Vice President, Richard Mentor Johnson.
1910: The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.
1915: The motion picture, Birth of a Nation, premiered at Clunes Auditorium in Los Angeles. It was directed by D.W. Griffith.
1924: The gas chamber is used for the first time in the United States at Carson City, Nevada.
1925: Actor Jack Lemmon born.
1940: Ted Koppel born.
1940: Actor Nick Nolte born.
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