| Date | Text | |||
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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 1925 | Arthur Berry: Artist | |||
| 07 Feb 1925 | H Eisenreich: Writer | |||
| 07 Feb 1925 | Marius Constant: Romania -- Dutch composer / conductor (Paradise Lost) | |||
| 07 Feb 1925 | Romolo Valli: Actor (Bobby Deerfield, Fistful of Dynamite, La Viaccia) | |||
| 07 Feb 1925 | Hans Schmidt, Canadian wrestler (d. 2012) | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 1950 | Burt Hooton: Baseball player | |||
| 07 Feb 1950 | Dan Quisenberry: Baseball pitcher (KC Royals) | |||
| 07 Feb 1950 | Marilyn Cochran: Burlington, Vermont -- Skier (1972 Olympics) | |||
| 07 Feb 1950 | Georges Bidault forms French government | |||
| 07 Feb 1950 | Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |||
| 07 Feb 1950 | US and Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime | |||
| 07 Feb 1950 | Karen Joy Fowler, American author | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 1975 | Marika Lehtimaki: Ice hockey center (Finland, Olympics - 1998) | |||
| 07 Feb 1975 | Brendan Fay: Actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54 | |||
| 07 Feb 1975 | NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak | |||
| 07 Feb 1975 | Rémi Gaillard, French comedian and actor | |||
| 07 Feb 1975 | Alexandre Daigle, Canadian ice hockey player | |||
| 07 Feb 1975 | birth Wes Borland, guitarist with Limp Bizkit, who had the 2001 UK No.1 single 'Rollin' & US & UK No.1 album 'Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavoured Water'. | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 2000 | Big Pun, American rapper and actor (Terror Squad) (b. 1971) | |||
| 07 Feb 2000 | Dave Peverett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Foghat and Savoy Brown) (b. 1943) | |||
| 07 Feb 2000 | Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970) | |||
| 07 Feb 2000 | Doug Henning, Canadian magician and politician (b. 1947) | |||
| 07 Feb 2000 | Big Punisher died of a heart attack, aged 28. The rapper had weighed 318kg (50 stone) when he had the attack. His second album, Yeeeah Baby, completed before his death, was issued as scheduled in April 2000. It peaked at No.3 on the Billboard charts. | |||
| 07 Feb 2000 | English guitarist and singer Dave Pevertt died from kidney cancer aged 56. Had been a member of Savoy Brown and Foghat who had the 1970's hit singles 'My Babe', and 'Slow Ride'. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 2005 | Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934) | |||
| 07 Feb 2005 | Atli Dam, Faroese engineer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1932) | |||
| 07 Feb 2005 | Michael Jackson's Thriller was named the top pop video in a poll of Channel 4 viewers in the UK. The 1983 video, which depicts the singer as a werewolf and a zombie, beat videos by Madonna and Robbie Williams. Animated videos for Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer and A-Ha's Take On Me were in second and third place respectively. 4th was Queen with Bohemian Rhapsody, 5th, Madonna Like a Prayer, 6th, Robbie Williams, Rock DJ, 7th, Michael Jackson, Billie Jean, 8th, The Verve, Bittersweet Symphony, 9th, Madonna Vogue and 10th Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit. | |||
07 Feb 2005
NASA |
NASA (space exploration) NASA announce budget plans – in the announcement, they state that a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope will not take place, and that a robotic mission to deorbit the telescope with a safe descent into an ocean will take place. The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) mission is also cancelled. |
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07 Feb 2005
National Academy of Sciences |
National Academy of Sciences (appointments) The National Academy of Sciences elects Ralph Cicerone as its next president, to begin his 6-year term on July 1. He takes over from Bruce Alberts. |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 2010 | Franco Ballerini, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1964) | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 2015 | John C. Whitehead, American banker and politician, 9th United States Deputy Secretary of State (b. 1922) | |||
| 07 Feb 2015 | Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (b. 1931) | |||
| 07 Feb 2015 | Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (b. 1934) | |||
| 07 Feb 2015 | Billy Casper, American golfer and architect (b. 1931) | |||
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