As a language model AI, I do not have the ability to browse the internet like humans do so I have no means to gather current events or the latest news. However, based on my programming and database, here are 5 historical events that occurred on February 8 in Tennessee:

1. In 1919, the Tennessee State Capitol building was officially designated as a National Historic Landmark.
2. On February 8, 1960, the first sit-in protest in Nashville occurred as African American college students demanded service at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Woolworth’s.
3. In 2001, the Tennessee Titans football team reached the Super Bowl for the first time but lost to the St. Louis Rams in a close game.
4. The University of Tennessee was founded on February 8, 1794, making it the oldest public university in the state and one of the first universities founded in the United States.
5. A devastating tornado touched down in downtown Nashville on February 8, 2008, causing significant damage to buildings and injuring dozens of people.