February 8 - this day in history

On February 8, 1692, a doctor in the American village of Salem announces that 3 teenage girls are dominated by the devil. Beginning of the Salem witch process. On charges of witchcraft, 19 women were hanged, one man was crushed with stones and 175 to 200 people were imprisoned (at least five of them died).

1815 - at the Congress of Vienna - a pan-European conference, a declaration was adopted prohibiting slave trade.

1837 - duel between Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin and Georges de Heecker (Dantes) on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Duelists shot at the pistols. As a result of the duel, Pushkin was mortally wounded and died two days later.

1865 - during a meeting of the scientific community in Bern, Gregor Mendel delivered a report formulating the laws of Mendel.

1906 - Sydney Sonnino, Italian politician and statesman, becomes prime minister of Italy, twice heading the Italian Cabinet of Ministers.

1910 - Scout organization is established in the USA. The word scout translates from English as "scout." Therefore, scouting is also sometimes called intelligence.

1921 - The Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR adopted a decree on the reserve Askania-Nova, a research institution in the system of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, a state reserve founded in 1898 by Frederick Falz-Fein.

1956 - the double-decker bus (Doubledecker) "Rutmaster", which became the symbol of London and, possibly, the most recognizable bus in the world, began operating in London.

1974 - the third and last expedition of visiting the first and only US space station Skylab is completed.

1984 - the XIV Olympic Winter Games opened in Sarajevo. Games opened Mika Shpiljak.