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February 8
What happened on this day
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Nasdaq opens
55 years ago
The world's first fully electronic stock market begins quoting prices in 1971, with no trading floor at all.
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Jules Verne born
198 years ago
The pioneer of science fiction, author of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' and 'Around the World in Eighty Days', is born in Nantes in 1828.
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Mary Queen of Scots executed
439 years ago
Elizabeth I has her cousin beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, after nineteen years of imprisonment and a conviction for plotting against the crown.
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Hollywood Walk of Fame begins
66 years ago
Ground is broken on Hollywood Boulevard in 1960; the first permanent star, for producer Stanley Kramer, is set that March.
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