Earthquake damage in Diyarbakır

• An earthquake
  (damage pictured) strikes Turkey and Syria, killing over 11,000 people and injuring more than 44,000 others.
• Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf dies at the age of 79.
• A Chinese balloon suspected of surveillance and espionage
  is shot down after overflying Canada and the United States.
• Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) makes its closest approach to the Earth.
• A suicide bombing in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills 100 people and injures more than 220 others.

February 8

William D. Boyce

• 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, led a failed rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• 1879 – Angered by a controversial umpiring decision, cricket spectators rioted and attacked the England team during a match in Sydney, Australia.
• 1910 – William D. Boyce (pictured) established the Boy Scouts of America, expanding the Scout Movement into the United States.
• 1965 – After taking evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision just after taking off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 84 people on board.
• 2010 – A freak storm triggered a series of avalanches that buried more than 3.5 km (2.2 mi) of road near the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing 175 people and trapping more than 2,500 travellers.