8th February
- 1936 Pandit Jawaharlal succeeds Mahatma Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
9th February
- 1986 Halley’s Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
10th February
- 1904 Japan and Russia declare war
- 1931 New Delhi becomes capital of India
- 1691 Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta
11th February
- 1794 1st session of US Senate open to the public
- 1959 Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
12th February
- 1999 US President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial
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1882 Satyendranath Dutt, a famous Bengali poet, was born.
- 1809 Naturalist Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury.
13th February
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- 1601 1st British East India Company voyage departs from London, lead by John Lancaster
- 1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy
14th February
- 1894 Venus is both a morning star & evening star
- 1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopal disaster
