| Date | Text | |||
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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 1924 | Cathy Long: (Rep-D-Louisiana, 1985-86) | |||
| 07 Feb 1924 | Dora Bryan [Broadhurst]: Southport, England -- Actress (Taste of Honey) | |||
| 07 Feb 1924 | Hattie Jacques: Kent, England -- Actress (Carry on Doctor) | |||
| 07 Feb 1924 | Johnny Jordaan [Jan van Musscher]: Amsterdam folk vocalist | |||
| 07 Feb 1924 | Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR | |||
| 07 Feb 1924 | birth Dora Bryan, English actress and singer who had the 1963 UK No.20 single 'All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle'. | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 1949 | Alan Lancaster: Bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level) | |||
| 07 Feb 1949 | Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000 / year baseball player (New York Yankees) | |||
| 07 Feb 1949 | Jacques Duchesneau, Canadian police officer and politician | |||
| 07 Feb 1949 | Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach | |||
| 07 Feb 1949 | WW2 | Li Mi met with Chiang Kaishek over a meal and reported to Chiang his Nov 1948 total defeat at the hand of the communists near Chenguan County, Henan Province, China. | ||
| 07 Feb 1949 | birth Alan Lancaster, bassist with English group Status Quo. He left the band in 1984. Famous for the 1977 UK No.3 single 'Rockin' All Over The World' plus the Quo have scored over 50 other UK Top 75 singles since 1968. | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 1974 | Ryan Phillips: Linebacker (New York Giants) | |||
| 07 Feb 1974 | Steve Nash: NBA guard (Phoenix Suns) | |||
| 07 Feb 1974 | Arline Judge: Actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61 | |||
| 07 Feb 1974 | Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) | |||
| 07 Feb 1974 | Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom. | |||
| 07 Feb 1974 | Steve Nash, South African-Canadian basketball player | |||
| 07 Feb 1974 | J Dilla, American rapper and producer (Slum Village) (d. 2006) | |||
| 07 Feb 1974 | Nujabes, Japanese DJ and producer (d. 2010) | |||
| 07 Feb 1974 | birth Danny Goffey, drummer with English group Supergrass who had the 1995 UK No.2 single 'Alright', and the 1995 UK No.1 album 'I Should Coco' which spent 35 weeks on the UK chart. | |||
| 07 Feb 1974 | birth James Dewitt Yancey, (J Dilla or Jay Dee), hip hop producer and MC. He died on Feb 10th 2006 of a rare blood disease at his home in Los Angeles, California. | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 1999 | Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein. | |||
| 07 Feb 1999 | Bobby Troup, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1918) | |||
| 07 Feb 1999 | Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935) | |||
| 07 Feb 1999 | Blondie went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Maria', giving the group their 6th UK No.1 single, 20 years after their first. At the age of 54, lead singer Debbie Harry became the oldest female to make No.1. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 2004 | Queen's single 'We Will Rock You' topped a poll of music fans to find the greatest rock anthem of all time. The 1977 song beat the band's classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody' into second place in a survey of 1,000 people carried out for the UCI cinema chain. The poll was carried out to mark the release of new Jack Black comedy 'School of Rock.' | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 2009 | Bushfires in Victoria leaves 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history. | |||
| 07 Feb 2009 | Blossom Dearie, American singer and pianist (b. 1924) | |||
| 07 Feb 2009 | Jack Cover, American pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun (b. 1920) | |||
| 07 Feb 2009 | Molly Bee, American singer and actress (b. 1939) | |||
| 07 Feb 2009 |
death Jack Cover Died 7 Feb 2009 at age 88 (born 6 Apr 1920). John Higson (Jack) Cover Jr. was an American inventor and aerospace engineer who invented the Taser stun gun weapon from an inspiration after reading of a man briefly immobilized by an electric fence. He worked in his garage and by the late 1960s had created a device resembling a flashlight that used gunpowder to fire darts able to deliver an electric shock to a target within 15 feet. He named it with the acronym Taser from the initials of the words in Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle adapted from a favorite science fiction book from his childhood, Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. He started the company Taser Systems Inc. in 1970. It was classified as a firearm because of its use of powder, but a revised design, offered to Cover in 1993 by Rick and Tom Smith, that used compressed gas to project the dart removed that restriction. The Los Angeles Police Department was an early adopter in 1980. |
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| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 07 Feb 2014 | Over 350 people were injured in the anti-government unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina. | |||
| 07 Feb 2014 | The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics is held in the Russian city of Sochi. | |||
| 07 Feb 2014 | Doug Mohns, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933) | |||
| 07 Feb 2014 | Tado, Filipino comedian and actor (b. 1974) | |||
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