February 8 - when radio came to White House

On this day in 1922, the radio entered White House

Today is Tuesday, February 8, the thirty ninth day of 2005.
There are 326 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1517 - Capt. Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, a Spanish explorer, sets sail from Cuba to discover Mexico.
1560 - Turkish galleys rout Spanish fleet under Duke of Medina Celi off Tripoli.
1587 - Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded after being accused of plotting murder of England's Queen Elizabeth I.

1807 - Indecisive battle at Eylau, Russia, between France and combined Russo-Prussian army.
1872 - Earl of Mayo, Viceroy of India is stabbed to death by an Afghan prisoner while inspecting a convict settlement on the Andaman Islands.

1904 - The Russo-Japanese War begins.
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.
1915 - DW Griffith's silent movie epic about the Civil War, "The Birth of a Nation," premieres in Los Angeles.
1920 - Russian Bolsheviks capture Odessa in the Ukraine.
1922 - US President Warren G Harding has a radio installed in the White House.
1924 - The first U.S. execution by gas takes place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City.
1940 - German troops shoot every tenth person in two Polish villages near Warsaw in reprisal for deaths of two German soldiers.
1962 - U.S. military council is established in South Vietnam.
1963 - Rebels in Baghdad, Iraq, assassinate Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, who is replaced by Abdul Salam Arif.
1968 - Three college students die in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, South Carolina, during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley.
1974 - Three U.S. Skylab astronauts return to Earth after setting record of 84 days in orbit.
1975 - Soviet spacemen begin training with Americans for joint U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz flights.
1990 - Punctured oil tanker leaks over 950,000 liters of oil into Pacific, threatening Southern California beaches.
1991 - A Saudi desalination plant is forced to close as a huge oil slick created by Iraqi destruction of Kuwaiti oil wells hits the coastline.
1992 - U.S.-European Ulysses space probe passes Jupiter.
1993 - Iranian passenger plane crashes outside Tehran, 132 dead.
1994 - The head of the French army's history section is fired over a report that cast doubt on the innocence of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, who was arrested for treason in 1894.
1995 - A powerful earthquake rocks Colombia, killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 230 others.
1996 - A cargo plane crashes into the market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing at least 350 people.
1997 - In Tirana, Albania, police beat protesters but fail to prevent thousands from demonstrating against the government's shutdown of get-rich schemes that had eaten up their savings.
1998 - New tremors kill 250 people in an area of Afghanistan hit by a quake that killed 4,500 people just days earlier.
1999 - Hundreds of dignitaries and heads of state, many of them bitter enemies, attend the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan.

2000 - Electronic vandals disrupt some of the Web's most popular sites by using dozens of powerful computers to spew out a crippling flood of fake data.
2001 - Astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis prepares to dock with the international space station 360 kilometers above Earth.
2002 - The United Nations ends talks with the Cambodian government on a genocide tribunal for leaders of the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge communist regime.
2003 - Fighting between Russian troops and Chechen rebels leaves six Russians dead _ while the region's prime minister Mikhail Babich resigns in a dispute with Akhmad Kadyrov, the leader of the Moscow-backed administration.

Today's Birthdays:
John Ruskin, English author-artist (1819-1900)
Jules Verne, French author (1828-1905)
Jack Lemmon, US actor (1925-2001)
James Dean, US actor (1931-1955)
Nick Nolte, US actor (1941--)
John Grisham, US author (1955--)
Gary Coleman, US actor (1968--)

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