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Events on the 7th of February in history

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07 Feb 0457 Leo I the Thracian becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
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07 Feb 1074 Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
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07 Feb 1301 Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st Prince of Wales
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07 Feb 1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
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07 Feb 1497 The Bonfire of the Vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
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07 Feb 1522 Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish / Austrian Branches
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07 Feb 1550 Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
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07 Feb 1569 King Philip II forms inquistion in South America
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07 Feb 1613 Michail Romanov (16) becomes Czar of Russia
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07 Feb 1653 Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France
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07 Feb 1668 Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"
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07 Feb 1783 American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
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07 Feb 1792 Austria and Prussia sign anti-French covenant
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07 Feb 1795 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
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07 Feb 1795 Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
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07 Feb 1795 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
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07 Feb 1807 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoleon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
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07 Feb 1812 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
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07 Feb 1812 Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
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07 Feb 1812 The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
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07 Feb 1813 Action of 7 February 1813: stalemate two evenly matched frigates from the French Navy and the British Royal Navy, Aréthuse and HMS Amelia.
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07 Feb 1818 1st successful US educational magazine "Academician, " begins (NYC)
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07 Feb 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
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07 Feb 1827 Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)
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07 Feb 1836 "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens
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07 Feb 1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than President"
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07 Feb 1842 Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
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07 Feb 1856 The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
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07 Feb 1862 Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island, North Carolina
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07 Feb 1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
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07 Feb 1864 Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
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07 Feb 1872 Alcorn A&M College opens
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07 Feb 1877 1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (NYC)
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07 Feb 1881 Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces
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07 Feb 1882 Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Mississippi
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07 Feb 1883 Lieutenant Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
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07 Feb 1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
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07 Feb 1889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
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07 Feb 1891 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
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07 Feb 1894 The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
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07 Feb 1897 Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4,000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
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07 Feb 1898 Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
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07 Feb 1900 British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal
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07 Feb 1900 Labour Party forms in England
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07 Feb 1900 Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
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07 Feb 1901 Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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07 Feb 1904 Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
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07 Feb 1904 A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
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07 Feb 1905 Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
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07 Feb 1905 Oklahoma admitted to statehood
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07 Feb 1907 The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
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07 Feb 1908 Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St. Louis Browns for $5,000
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07 Feb 1912 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
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07 Feb 1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
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07 Feb 1914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco
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07 Feb 1915 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
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07 Feb 1915 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
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07 Feb 1924 Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR
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07 Feb 1928 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
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07 Feb 1931 US opera, "Peter Ibbetson, " by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera, New York City
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07 Feb 1933 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
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07 Feb 1933 Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead
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07 Feb 1934 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Mississippi
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07 Feb 1935 Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags
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07 Feb 1935 The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
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07 Feb 1936 A flag is authorized for Vice President
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07 Feb 1936 Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer
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07 Feb 1940 British railroads nationalized
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07 Feb 1940 The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
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07 Feb 1941 Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me"
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07 Feb 1943 Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
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07 Feb 1943 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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07 Feb 1944 Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records
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07 Feb 1944 Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy
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07 Feb 1944 World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
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07 Feb 1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
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07 Feb 1945 President Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
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07 Feb 1945 US 76th / 5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
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07 Feb 1946 Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill
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07 Feb 1947 Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
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07 Feb 1948 "Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 performances
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07 Feb 1948 Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
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07 Feb 1949 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000 / year baseball player (New York Yankees)
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07 Feb 1950 Georges Bidault forms French government
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07 Feb 1950 Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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07 Feb 1950 US and Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime
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07 Feb 1951 Korean War: 705 suspected communist sympathizers are butchered by South Korean forces.
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07 Feb 1956 Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled
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07 Feb 1958 1st showing of DAF 600 auto
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07 Feb 1958 Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
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07 Feb 1958 Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
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07 Feb 1959 "Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
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07 Feb 1959 Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
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07 Feb 1959 Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
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07 Feb 1959 Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
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07 Feb 1960 Old handwriting found in Qumran, near the Dead Sea
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07 Feb 1961 Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
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07 Feb 1962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
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07 Feb 1962 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
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07 Feb 1962 Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational
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07 Feb 1962 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
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07 Feb 1964 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
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07 Feb 1964 Cassius Clay becomes a black Moslem
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07 Feb 1964 The Beatles first arrive in the United States. Their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later would mark the beginning of the British Invasion.
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07 Feb 1965 Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim and adopts the name Muhammad Ali
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07 Feb 1965 George Harrison has his tonsils removed
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07 Feb 1965 Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
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07 Feb 1965 US begins regular bombing and strafing of North Vietnam
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07 Feb 1965 WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Feb 1966 KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Feb 1968 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls
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07 Feb 1968 WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Feb 1969 "This Is Tom Jones, " debuts on ABC TV
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07 Feb 1969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes President of PLO
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07 Feb 1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
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07 Feb 1970 "Hollywood Palace, " last airs on ABC TV
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07 Feb 1970 "Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies
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07 Feb 1970 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
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07 Feb 1970 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
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07 Feb 1971 Swiss men accept female suffrage
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07 Feb 1973 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
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07 Feb 1973 Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
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07 Feb 1974 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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07 Feb 1974 Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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07 Feb 1975 NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
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07 Feb 1976 Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game
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07 Feb 1976 FCC raids and shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn NY)
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07 Feb 1977 Soyuz 24 launches with 2 Cosmonauts
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07 Feb 1978 Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
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07 Feb 1979 "Supertrain, " TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC
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07 Feb 1979 Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI vs. India at Kanpur
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07 Feb 1979 Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles
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07 Feb 1979 Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 pts (6 goals)
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07 Feb 1979 Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
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07 Feb 1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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07 Feb 1982 Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica
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07 Feb 1983 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
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07 Feb 1984 Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk (US)
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07 Feb 1984 David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time
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07 Feb 1984 Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS
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07 Feb 1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
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07 Feb 1985 "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York City
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07 Feb 1985 New York Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
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07 Feb 1986 Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent Dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
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07 Feb 1986 Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
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07 Feb 1987 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron and DC Crew peaks at #93
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07 Feb 1987 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
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07 Feb 1988 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago
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07 Feb 1988 Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
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07 Feb 1988 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
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07 Feb 1989 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton
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07 Feb 1990 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
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07 Feb 1990 Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half and loses 102-24
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07 Feb 1990 USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
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07 Feb 1990 Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
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07 Feb 1991 Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
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07 Feb 1992 Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial
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07 Feb 1992 Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA
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07 Feb 1992 The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
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07 Feb 1993 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20
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07 Feb 1993 Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm Bamm Rubble wed
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07 Feb 1993 Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
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07 Feb 1994 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins
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07 Feb 1994 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
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07 Feb 1994 Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant
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07 Feb 1995 Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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07 Feb 1997 US and Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21
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07 Feb 1998 18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan
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07 Feb 1999 Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
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07 Feb 2009 Bushfires in Victoria leaves 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
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07 Feb 2012 President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
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07 Feb 2013 At least 51 people are killed in a crash involving a bus and truck in Zambia.
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07 Feb 2014 Over 350 people were injured in the anti-government unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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07 Feb 2014 The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics is held in the Russian city of Sochi.
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