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• ...that St Mary's Church, Widnes has a wayside pulpit (pictured) incorporated into its boundary wall?
• ...that American film maker John Korty’s studio in Marin County inspired George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola to establish studios in the San Francisco Bay Area?
• ...that Omaha, Nebraska pioneer gambler Dan Allen was buried with his madam girlfriend under a concrete slab with columns resembling bedposts?
• ...that the Athina B became a temporary tourist attraction after becoming beached at an English seaside town?
• ...that two-time Olympic diving gold medalist Bob Webster won his first collegiate diving title for a junior college with no pool, training off a board in his coach's back-yard sand pit?
• ...that, at his death, Charlesworth Samuel was one of only two sitting Members of Parliament who attended the first session of the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda in 1981?
• ...that voice announcer Bob LeMond, who announced on the original, lost pilot episode of I Love Lucy, had to re-record his original lines for the show once the episode was rediscovered in the early 2000s?
  

• Space Shuttle Mission STS-122 launches from Cape Canaveral to deliver the Columbus module to the International Space Station.
• A tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills at least 54 people and injures more than 100 others.
• Damages to several undersea cables disrupt internet services in parts of Asia and Africa.
• In American football, the New York Giants defeat the season's previously unbeaten New England Patriots 17–14 in Super Bowl XLII.
• Boris Tadić (pictured) is re-elected as President of Serbia, defeating Tomislav Nikolić.
• An earthquake at Lake Kivu kills at least 39 people in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

February 7: Chinese New Year's Day, Losar in Tibet, Tết Nguyên Ðán in Vietnam (2008); Independence Day in Grenada.

• 1301 – Edward of Carnarvon, the future King Edward II (statue pictured), became the first English heir apparent to hold the title as Prince of Wales.
• 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Eylau began between the French Empire, and Russian and Prussia forces of the Fourth Coalition near Preußisch Eylau, East Prussia.
• 1863 – HMS Orpheus, a corvette of the Royal Navy, sank off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189 crew out of the ship's complement of 259.
• 1984 – During NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first and second untethered spacewalks, respectively, using Manned Maneuvering Units.
• 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty, which led to the formation of the European Union, was signed in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

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