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February 8

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In 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.

In 1693, a charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

In 1915, the motion picture "The Birth of a Nation, " directed by D.W. Griffith, premiered at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles.

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Actress Lana Turner  (1921)

Composer-conductor John Williams  (1932)

ABC News anchor Ted Koppel  (1940)

Comedian Robert Klein  (1942)

Actress Brooke Adams  (1949)

Actor Gary Coleman  (1968)

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"If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history."
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Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and critic  (1647-1706)