On this day: February 8
POSTED: 09:06 PM PST Feb 07, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 07, 2013
The Boy Scouts of America is founded, the gas chamber is first used in the United States, the first NFL Draft is held, "Good Times" premieres, and women's ice hockey debuts as an Olympic sport, all on this day.
The Times and Democrat
1968: Nine South Carolina Highway Patrol officers in Orangeburg, S.C., fire into a crowd of protesters demonstrating against segregation at a whites-only bowling alley near the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically black college, killing three men and wounding another 28. The federal government brought charges against the state patrolmen in the first federal trial of police officers for using excessive force at a campus protest. All nine defendants were acquitted.
