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

• 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.
• 1807 – Napoléon's French Empire began fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at the Battle of Eylau in Eylau, Poland.
• 1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
• 1882 – In Mississippi City, Mississippi, 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.
• 1940 – Pinocchio, an Academy Award-winning animated feature based on the story Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, was first released by Walt Disney Productions.
• 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.
• 1967  – A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people.
• 1971 – Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.
• 1974 – Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1976 – Darryl Sittler sets NHL record with ten points in one game.
• 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.
• 2001 – The City of Centennial is formed in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
• 2003 – Last contact to Pioneer 10 was replied.
• 2010 – Super Bowl XLIV will take place.

Births

• 1102 – Empress Maud of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
• 1478 – Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)
• 1812 – Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)
• 1834 – Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
• 1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)
• 1883 – Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)
• 1885 – Sinclair Lewis, American author (d. 1951)
• 1904 – Ernst Ginsberg, actor and film director (d. 1964)
• 1905 – Paul Nizan, author (d. 1940)
• 1908 – Buster Crabbe, swimmer and actor (d. 1983)
• 1910 – Max Bense, philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Ramón Mercader, assassin of Leon Trotsky (d. 1978)
• 1915 – Eddie Bracken, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Jock Mahoney, American actor (d. 1989)
• 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 runner
• 1932 – Gay Talese, author
• 1932 – Al Worden, astronaut
• 1934 – Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
• 1943 – Gareth Hunt. actor
• 1945 – Pete Postlethwaite, actor
• 1949 – Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach
• 1953 – Lige Curry, musician (P Funk)
• 1953  – Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)
• 1954 – Dieter Bohlen German composer
• 1955  – Mario Coutinho Brazilian physician
• 1955 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor
• 1960 – James Spader, actor
• 1962 – Garth Brooks, American country music singer
• 1962 – Eddie Izzard, actor and comedian
• 1965 – Jason Gedrick, American actor
• 1967 – Chris Rock, comedian and actor
• 1968 – Peter Bondra, hockey player
• 1974 – Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
• 1978 – Ashton Kutcher, actor
• 1983 – Elin Grindemyr, model
• 1985 – Tina Majorino, American actress

Deaths

• 780 – Nicetas, Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1045 – Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
• 1317 – Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
• 1779 – William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)
• 1823 – Ann Radcliffe, novelist (b. 1764)
• 1837 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
• 1873 – Sheridan Le Fanu, writer (b. 1814)
• 1878 – Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
• 1920 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
• 1938 – Harvey Firestone, manufacturer (b. 1868)
• 1968 – Nick Adams, American actor
• 1979 – Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
• 1985 – Matt Monro, singer (b. 1932)
• 1990 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter
• 1993 – Lillian Gish, actress (b. 1893)
• 1994 – Stephen Milligan, British journalist and Member of Parliament (b. 1948)
• 1998 – Lawrence Sanders, author
• 1999 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
• 1999  – Bobby Troup, musician, actor
• 2000 – Doug Henning, magician (b. 1947)
• 2000  – Big Pun, singer (b. 1971)
• 2000 – Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat)
• 2001 – Dale Evans, actress, singer
• 2001  – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, aviator (b. 1906)
• 2001 – Dale Evans, American actress, singer
• 2003 – Augusto Monterroso, author
• 2003  – John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California
• 2004 – John Hench, animator

Holidays and observances

• Independence Day in Grenada (1974)
• Bahá'í Faith – Feast of Mulk (Dominion) – First day of the 18th month of the Bahá'í Calendar
• Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan (2005)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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