On this day …
February 8, 2017
- In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed on suspicion of being involved in a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I.
- In 1693, the College of William and Mary was granted a charter in Williamsburg, Va.
- In 1837, Richard Johnson became the first vice president chosen by the U.S. Senate.
- In 1915, D.W. Griffith’s controversial film The Birth of a Nation premiered in Los Angeles.
- In 1922, President Warren G. Harding had the first radio installed in the White House.
- In 1924, the first American prisoner was executed by gas chamber in Nevada.
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