February 8th (1979) was a Thursday. It's the 36th day of the year (37th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days left to the end of the year.
Famous Birthdays on February 8 in 1979
» Aaron Cook (baseball) e.g Aaron Cook, American baseball player
» Josh Keaton, American actor and singer
February 8th Famous Deaths for 1979
» Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
February 8th Holidays in History
» Christian Feast Day:
» Cuthmann of Steyning
» Saint Jerome Emiliani named Jerome Emiliani
» Josephine Bakhita
» Juventius of Pavia
» Meingold of Huy
» Saint Stephen of Muret known as Stephen of Muret
» February 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Earliest day on which Feast of Orthodoxy can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated 42 days before Easter. (Orthodoxy)
» Parinirvana Day e.g Nirvana Day (Mahayana Buddhism)