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4 sourced moments from February 8 in history: Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay in 1587; The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated (1910); The First U.S. Execution by Gas Chamber (1924), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on February 8

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1969 Space · Solar System

The Allende meteorite holds the solar system's oldest solids

The car-sized rock that burst over Chihuahua in 1969 carries grains dated to 4,567 million years, and it is still rewriting the solar system's history.

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1924 Society & Economy · Crime

The First U.S. Execution by Gas Chamber

On a cold Nevada morning in 1924, the United States carried out its first execution using lethal gas, hailed as humane and quickly proven otherwise.

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1910 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated

On a single Washington morning, an American publisher chartered a youth movement borrowed from Britain.

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1587 History · Medieval

Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay in 1587

Elizabeth I signed the death warrant, then disowned it. Her secretary went to the Tower, and Mary's son later moved her body to Westminster Abbey.

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