February 7
February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 327 days remaining, 328 in
leap years.
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Events
\n*457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.\n*1301 - Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first Prince of Wales.\n*1550 - Julius III becomes Pope.\n*1613 - Mikhail Romanov becomes Tsar of Russia.\n*1795 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.\n*1812 - The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.\n*1882 - In Mississippi City, the last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place.\n*1898 - Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.\n*1900 - The British Labour Party is formed.\n*1904 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. \n*1943 - World War II: In the United States it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in two days. \n*1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy Nazi forces launch a counteroffensive.\n*1962 - The United States Government bans all US-related Cuban imports and exports. \n*1964 - The Beatles arrived on their first visit to the United States.\n*1971 - Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.\n*1974 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom. \n*1977 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24. \n*1984 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. \n*1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City. \n*1986 - 28 years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation. \n*1990 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.\n*1991 - Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.\n*1992 - The European Union is formed.\n*1998 - The 1998 Winter Olympic Games open in Nagano, Japan.\n*1999 - Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the ruler of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.\n*2003 - Last contact to Pioneer 10 was replied.
Births
\n*1478 - Sir Thomas More, statesman and humanist, author of Utopia (d. 1535)\n*1812 - Charles Dickens, novelist (d. 1870)\n*1834 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements (d. 1907)\n*1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie (d. 1957)\n*1883 - Eubie Blake, musician, composer (d. 1983)\n*1885 - Sinclair Lewis, author (d. 1951)\n*1904 - Ernst Ginsberg, actor and film director (d. 1964) \n*1905 - Paul Nizan, author (d. 1940)\n*1908 - Buster Crabbe, Olympic Games swimming gold medalist, actor (d. 1983)\n*1910 - Max Bense, philosopher (d. 1990)\n*1914 - Ramon Mercader, assassin of Leon Trotsky (d. 1978)\n*1920 - An Wang, computer pioneer (d. 1990)\n*1922 - Hattie Jacques, actress (d. 1980)\n*1926 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut\n*1927 - Juliette Greco, singer and actor\n* 1927 - Vladimir Kuts, Soviet long-distance runner\n*1932 - Gay Talese, author\n*1943 - Gareth Hunt. actor\n*1945 - Pete Postlethwaite, actor\n*1953 - Lige Curry, musician (P Funk)\n* 1953 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (d. 1998)\n*1954 - Dieter Bohlen German Composer and Performer (Modern Talking)\n*1960 - James Spader, actor (Pretty in Pink, Stargate)\n*1962 - Garth Brooks, country music star\n* 1962 - Eddie Izzard, actor, comic\n*1967 - Chris Rock, comedian, actor\n*1968 - Peter Bondra, hockey player\n*1974 - Steve Nash, Canadian NBA star\n*1978 - Ashton Kutcher, actor
Deaths
\n*780 - Nicetas, Patriarch of Constantinople\n*1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)\n*1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, writer (b. 1814)\n*1878 - Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)\n*1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)\n*1938 - Harvey Firestone, manufacturer (b. 1868)\n*1979 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)\n*1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)\n*1993 - Lillian Gish, actress (b. 1893)\n*1998 - Lawrence Sanders, author\n*1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)\n* 1999 - Bobby Troup, musician, actor\n*2000 - Doug Henning, magician (b. 1947)\n* 2000 - Big Pun, singer (b. 1971)\n*2001 - Dale Evans, actress, singer\n* 2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, aviator (b. 1906)\n*2003 - Augusto Monterroso, author\n*2004 - John Hench, Artistic designer for Walt Disney\n* 2004 - Rebeca Martinez, girl born with two heads, died of complications from surgery to remove extra head (b. 2003)
Holidays and observances
\n*Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mulk (Dominion) - First day of the 18th month of the Bahá'í Calendar
February 6 -
February 8 -
January 7 -
March 7 --
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