Feb. 8 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I. In 1692, a doctor in Massachusetts Bay Colony said two village girls were possibly bewitched, a charge that set off the Salem witch trials. In 1693, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., was granted a charter by Britain's King William III. In 1915, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation , a landmark in the history of cinema and the first