TODAY IN HISTORY

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Feb. 8, 1968

Three college students were killed in a confrontation between demonstrators and highway patrolmen at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg in the wake of protests over a whites-only bowling alley. The science-fiction film “Planet of the Apes,” starring Charlton Heston, had its world premiere in New York

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1587

Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

1693

A charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in the Virginia Colony.

1862

The Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, ended in victory for Union forces led by Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.

1910

The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.

1922

President Warren G. Harding had a radio installed in the White House.

1937

During the Spanish Civil War, Malaga fell to Nationalist and Italian forces.

1942

During World War II, Japanese forces began invading Singapore, which fell a week later.