Historical Events
- GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
- Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
Famous Deaths
- Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies
- Douglas Heyes, American director and writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73
- Eliot Janeway, American financial columnist (Eliot Doomsday), dies at 80
- Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82
- N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
- Paul Brickhill, Dutch-American WW II pilot and physician, dies
About February 8, 1993
Day of the Week: Monday
How Long Ago? 30 years and 4 months
Leap Year: No
Generation: Millennial
Chinese Zodiac: Rooster
Star Sign: Aquarius
Music Charts
#1 Song: I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
#1 Song: No Limit - 2 Unlimited
Actors
Actresses
Basketball Players
Footballers
Pop Stars
Rockers