Wikipedia: February 7

February 7
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February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 327 days remaining, 328 in leap years.

Events

457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1301 - Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first Prince of Wales.
1550 - Julius III becomes Pope.
1613 - Mikhail Romanov becomes Tsar of Russia.
1795 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
1812 - The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
1882 - In Mississippi City, the last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place.
1898 - Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
1900 - The British Labour Party is formed.
1904 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1943 - World War II: In the United States it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in two days.
1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy Nazi forces launch a counteroffensive.
1962 - The United States Government bans all US-related Cuban imports and exports.
1964 - The Beatles arrived on their first visit to the United States.
1971 - Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.
1974 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1977 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24.
1984 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.
1986 - 28 years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
1990 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
1991 - Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
1992 - The European Union is formed.
1998 - The 1998 Winter Olympic Games open in Nagano, Japan.
1999 - Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the ruler of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.

Births

1478 - Sir Thomas More, statesman and humanist, author of Utopia, (d. 1535)
1812 - Charles Dickens, novelist, (d. 1870)
1834 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements, (d. 1907)
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie, (d. 1957)
1883 - Eubie Blake, musician, composer, (d. 1983)
1885 - Sinclair Lewis, author, (d. 1951)
1904 - Ernst Ginsberg, actor and film director, (d. 1964)
1905 - Paul Nizan, author, (d. 1940)
1908 - Buster Crabbe, Olympic Games swimming gold medalist, actor, (d. 1983)
1910 - Max Bense, philosopher, (d. 1990)
1914 - Ramon Mercader, assassin of Leon Trotsky, (d. 1978)
1920 - An Wang, computer pioneer, (d. 1990)
1922 - Hattie Jacques, actress, (d. 1980)
1926 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
1927 - Juliette Greco, singer and actor
1927 - Vladimir Kuts, Soviet long-distance runner
1932 - Gay Talese, author
1943 - Gareth Hunt. actor
1945 - Pete Postlethwaite, actor
1953 - Lige Curry, musician (P Funk)
1954 - Dieter Bohlen German Composer and Performer (Modern Talking)
1962 - Garth Brooks, country music star
1962 - Eddie Izzard, actor, comic
1967 - Chris Rock, comedian, actor
1968 - Peter Bondra, hockey player
1974 - Steve Nash, Canadian NBA star
1978 - Ashton Kutcher, actor

Deaths

780 - Nicetas, Patriarch of Constantinople
1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, (b. 1778)
1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, writer, (b. 1814)
1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander, (b. 1874)
1938 - Harvey Firestone, manufacturer, (b. 1868)
1979 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal, (b. 1911)
1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer, (b. 1904)
1993 - Lillian Gish, actress, (b. 1893)
1998 - Lawrence Sanders, author
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan, (b. 1935)
1999 - Bobby Troup, musician, actor
2000 - Big Pun, singer, (b. 1971)
2000 - Doug Henning, magician, (b. 1947)
2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, aviator, (b. 1906)
2001 - Dale Evans, actress, singer
2003 - Augusto Monterroso, author
2004 - John Hench, Artistic designer for Walt Disney
2004 - Rebeca Martinez, girl born with two heads, died of complications from surgery to remove extra head (b. 2003)

Holidays and observances

Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mulk (Dominion) - First day of the 18th month of the Bahá'í Calendar

See Also:

February 6 - February 8 - January 7 - March 7 -- listing of all days

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