Today is Friday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2019. There are 326 days left in the year.

Today's highlights in history:

On Feb. 8, 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.

On this date:




In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.



In 1952, Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed her accession to the British throne after the death of her father, King George VI.

In 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663, a DC-7, crashed shortly after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport; all 84 people on board were killed. The Supremes' record "Stop! In the Name of Love!" was released by Motown.



