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## On This Day: February 8th
In 1983, a group of gunmen stole Shergar, one of the world’s most valuable racehorses, from a stud farm in County Kildare, Ireland. The kidnappers demanded a $3.1 million ransom, but negotiations failed and the horse was never recovered. The case remains unsolved.
In 1993, at least 132 people were killed when a Russian-made Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner flying for Iran air Tours collided with a Sukhoi Su-24 military aircraft near Tehran, Iran. All aboard both aircraft perished.
In 2002, the Winter Olympic Games opened in Salt Lake City, Utah. The opening ceremony was held at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
In 2007, Anna Nicole Smith, a 39-year-old actress, model, and television personality, was found unresponsive at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood,Florida. She was later pronounced dead, and the cause of death was persistent to be a combination of multiple prescription drugs.
In 2014, snowboarding slopestyle made its Olympic debut at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.American Sage Kotsenburg won the first gold medal in the event.
In 2022, Austrian Matthias Mayer won the gold medal in the men’s super-G alpine skiing event at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. This made him the first man to win Olympic gold medals in super-G, downhill, and combined.
in 2024, Pakistan held general elections.While official results were delayed, early indications showed that candidates backed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party
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