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Historical Events

07 Feb 1074
Battle of Montesarchio Prince of Benevento Pandulf IV killed battling the encroaching Normans in southern Italy
07 Feb 1301
Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes first (English) Prince of Wales
07 Feb 1522
Treaty of Brussels Habsburgers split into Spanish and Austrian Branches
07 Feb 1550
Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
07 Feb 1613
Michail Romanov (aged 16) becomes Tsar of Russia
07 Feb 1639
Academie Franaise begins Dictionary of French Language
07 Feb 1653
Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France
07 Feb 1668
Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of Ballet of Peace
07 Feb 1792
Domenico Cimarosas opera Il Matrimonio Segreto premieres in Vienna
07 Feb 1795
11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified affirms power of states
07 Feb 1795
Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
07 Feb 1818
1st successful US educational magazine Academician begins (NYC)
07 Feb 1827
Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)
07 Feb 1842
Battle of Debre Tabor Ras Ali Alula Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien
07 Feb 1856
The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of ) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
07 Feb 1863
HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland New Zealand killing 189
07 Feb 1872
Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College opens
07 Feb 1876
US President Grants private secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
07 Feb 1881
Battle at Ingogo Transvaal Boers beat superior British forces
07 Feb 1882
Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
07 Feb 1883
Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
07 Feb 1889
Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
07 Feb 1893
Vanderbilt University claims it participated in the first organised intercollegiate basketball game at the Nashville YMCA Gymnasium Vanderbilt beats YMCA 9-3
07 Feb 1894
The Cripple Creek miners strike led by the Western Federation of Miners begins in Cripple Creek Colorado
07 Feb 1903
VVV 03 soccer club is established in the Dutch southeastern city of Venlo
07 Feb 1904
Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
07 Feb 1905
Dominican Republic signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
07 Feb 1907
The Mud March first large procession organized by the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
07 Feb 1907
Conservative coalition take over Reichstag in Germany after rallying conservatives against the threat of a socialist government
07 Feb 1910
Edmond Rostands Chantecler premieres in Paris
07 Feb 1912
2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (1140)
07 Feb 1914
Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium San Francisco
07 Feb 1915
1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
07 Feb 1915
Second Battle of Masurian Lakes German armies surrounded a Russian army
07 Feb 1920
Admiral Kolchak surrenders to Bolshevik troops and is executed
07 Feb 1922
John Willards Cat & the Canary premieres in NYC
07 Feb 1928
1st solo flight from England to Australia takes off from Croydon piloted by Australian aviator Bert Hinkler (arrives 15 days later)
07 Feb 1931
US opera Peter Ibbetson by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera New York City
07 Feb 1933
Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
07 Feb 1933
Social-Dem meeting in Berlin As thousands cheer Marxism is dead
07 Feb 1936
Felix the Cat animated film released by Van Beuren Studios licensed from Otto Messmer
07 Feb 1942
1st indoor 15 pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15 38)
07 Feb 1943
Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
07 Feb 1944
Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy
07 Feb 1945
Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
07 Feb 1945
US 76th5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
07 Feb 1945
London Washington and Moscow discuss final phase of World War II
07 Feb 1946
Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee) bill
07 Feb 1947
The UK announces its intention to end the Mandate for Palestine
07 Feb 1948
Cradle Will Rock closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 performances
07 Feb 1948
After winning Lake Placid (1932) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1936) Olympic ski jumping gold medals Birger Ruud comes out of retirement to win silver in St. Moritz in a Norwegian medal sweep
07 Feb 1950
Senator Joe McCarthy finds communists in US Department of State (equiv. Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
07 Feb 1958
Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers Inc
07 Feb 1958
1st showing of Dutch auto-transmission car the DAF 600
07 Feb 1966
KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
07 Feb 1967
A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery Alabama kills 25 people.
07 Feb 1968
WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
07 Feb 1969
Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
07 Feb 1969
The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service
07 Feb 1970
Jingle Jangle hits 10 on the pop singles chart by Archies
07 Feb 1970
LSUs Pistol Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause
07 Feb 1959
Whoop-Up closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
07 Feb 1959
Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
07 Feb 1959
Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported 27M
07 Feb 1960
Old handwriting found in at Qumran near the Dead Sea
07 Feb 1962
Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
07 Feb 1964
Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
07 Feb 1964
Beatles land at NYs JFK airport for 1st US tour
07 Feb 1965
Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
07 Feb 1965
US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
07 Feb 1965
WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland Ohio (PBS) begins broadcasting
07 Feb 1971
Switzerland votes for national womens suffrage in a referendum
07 Feb 1973
US Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
07 Feb 1973
North Irelands United Loyalist Council hold a one-day strike loyalist paramilitaries forcibly try to stop people going to work
07 Feb 1974
Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
07 Feb 1974
The Symbionese Liberation Army claim responsibility for the kidnapping of Patty Hearst daughter of Randolph Hearst
07 Feb 1975
NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
07 Feb 1976
FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn New York)
07 Feb 1976
Worlds largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
07 Feb 1979
Supertrain TV Anthology Superbomb of debuts on NBC
07 Feb 1979
Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds president Boumedienne in Algeria
07 Feb 1979
Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur
07 Feb 1983
1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
07 Feb 1983
Jos Cuervo single released by Shelly West (Billboard Song of the Year )
07 Feb 1984
American astronaut Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
07 Feb 1984
David (born without immunity system) touches his mother for 1st time at age 12
07 Feb 1985
New York New York becomes the official anthem of New York City
07 Feb 1985
Marshall Us Bruce Morris scores a basket from 925
07 Feb 1985
NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
07 Feb 1987
Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring the Americas Cup back to US
07 Feb 1987
Police in South Korea make hundreds of arrests during protest demonstrations the countrys biggest for 6 years after a student died in custody
07 Feb 1988
NFL Pro Bowl Aloha Stadium Honolulu HI AFC beats NFC 15-6 MVP Bruce Smith Buffalo Bills DE
07 Feb 1990
Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
07 Feb 1990
USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
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 & loses 102-24
07 Feb 1991
Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haitis 1st elected president
07 Feb 1991
The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
07 Feb 1992
Shannon LA Rhea Marketic 22 (California) crowned 41st Miss USA
07 Feb 1992
Maastricht Treaty signed by 12 countries from the European Community (EC) to create the European Union (EU)
07 Feb 1993
NFL Pro Bowl Aloha Stadium Honolulu HI AFC beats NFC 23-20 MVP Steve Tasker Buffalo Bills WR
07 Feb 1994
American actor Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant
07 Feb 1997
US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki March 20-21
07 Feb 1998
XVIII Winter Olympic Games open in Nagano Japan
07 Feb 1999
NFL Pro Bowl Aloha Stadium Honolulu HI AFC beats NFC 23-10Keyshawn Johnson NY Jets QB Ty Law New England Patriots CB
07 Feb 1999
Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father King Hussein.
07 Feb 2000
Bahria University is established through Presidential Ordinance No. V of by the Government of Pakistan.
07 Feb 2001
51st Berlin International Film Festival Intimacy wins the Golden Bear
07 Feb 2005
Britains Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world taking 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes 33 seconds
07 Feb 2008
58th Berlin International Film Festival Elite Squad wins the Golden Bear
07 Feb 2009
Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australias history.
07 Feb 2010
Super Bowl XLIV Sun Life Stadium Miami Gardens Miami FL New Orleans Saints beat Indianapolis Colts 31-17 MVP Drew Brees New Orleans QB
07 Feb 2013
Eugne Delacroixs painting Liberty Leading the People is vandalized at the Louvre-Lens museum
07 Feb 2013
Azerbaijan launches its first satellite Azerspace-1
07 Feb 2013
63rd Berlin International Film Festival Childs Pose wins the Golden Bear
07 Feb 2014
German treasurer Helmut Linssen resigns amid a scandal involving offshore banking accounts in the Bahamas and Panama
07 Feb 2014
XXII Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi Russia
07 Feb 2018
Armed groups release 300 child soldiers from Yambio South Sudan according to UN
07 Feb 2018
The Los Angeles Times is bought by LA doctor Patrick Soon-Shiong from Tronc for 500 million
07 Feb 2018
Missing Nigerian painting masterpiece of Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi by Ben Enwonwu announced rediscovered in London
07 Feb 2018
DNA analysis of Chedder Man UKs oldest complete skeleton shows he had dark skin and blue eyes
07 Feb 2018
White House aide Rob Porter resigns in wake of physical abuse allegations by ex-wives
07 Feb 2018
All citrus fruit can be traced to the southeast foothills of the Himalayas according to DNA study published in Nature
07 Feb 2018
Angel Merkels Christian Democratic Union party reaches a coalition deal with Social Democrats after four months
07 Feb 1569
King Philip II forms Inquisition in South America
07 Feb 1817
Baltimore becomes the 1st American city lit by gas street lamps with the first turned on at Market and Lemon Streets (currently Baltimore and Holliday Streets)
07 Feb 1856
Colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the 1st piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of ) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot
07 Feb 1972
Dutch Olympic 1500m and 5000m speed skating champion Ard Schenk wins his 3rd gold medal at the Sapporo Winter Games when he takes out the 10000m
07 Feb 2013
Eugne Delacroixs painting Liberty Leading the People is vandalized at the Louvre-Lens museum Northern France
07 Feb 2019
Measles cases in Europe highest in a decade tripling in a year to 82596 according to WHO
07 Feb 2019
New kangaroo fossil research published from Riversleigh Australia show Kangaroos learned to hop 20 million years ago much earlier than first thought
07 Feb 2019
Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio declares national emergency over rape and sexual assault violence after instances double
07 Feb 2019
Measles outbreak declared in the Philippines with 1813 cases and 26 deaths
07 Feb 2019
France recalls its Italian ambassador from Rome after Italian deputy PM Luigi Di Maio met with yellow vest protesters
07 Feb 1931
US opera Peter Ibbetson by Deems Taylor premieres at Metropolitan Opera New York City
07 Feb 1994
American actor and singer Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle USMC) undergoes a liver transplant
07 Feb 1857
French writer Gustave Flaubert is acquitted on a charge of obscenity for his work Madame Bovary
07 Feb 1931
American opera Peter Ibbetson by Deems Taylor premieres at Metropolitan Opera New York City
07 Feb 1964
Roger Sessions 5th Symphony premieres in Philadelphia with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
07 Feb 1969
British rock band The Who record their song Pinball Wizard at Morgan Studios London
07 Feb 1238
Mongolian forces led by General Batu capture and burn the important Russian city of Vladimir after an eight-day siege
07 Feb 1920
Russian Imperial Navy Admiral Kolchak leader of anti-communist White Movement executed by Bolshevik firing squad in Irkutsk Russian SFSR
07 Feb 1959
American pilots Bob Timm and John Cook break recently set airplane flight endurance record exceeding 1550 hours (64 days 22 hours and 19 minutes) landing The Hacienda their modified Cessna 172 where they started in Las Vegas Nevada [1]
07 Feb 1959
Mark Charlap and Norman Gimbels musical Whoop-Up starring Julienne Marie and Sylvia Syms closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
07 Feb 1964
Beatles land at New Yorks JFK airport for 1st US tour
07 Feb 1991
Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting in an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister John Major injuring four people
07 Feb 2019
First reports of poisonous homemade alcohol killing people in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh will go on to kill about 100
07 Feb 1862
Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island North Carolina
07 Feb 1872
Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College opens by Lorman Mississippi - 1st US black land grant college
07 Feb 1910
Edmond Rostands play Chantecler premieres in Paris
07 Feb 1922
John Willards play Cat & the Canary premieres in NYC
07 Feb 1934
1st contract for TVA power Tupelo Mississippi
07 Feb 1945
Harry Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of US Customs Court
07 Feb 1945
US 76th5th Infantry divisions begin crossing the Sauer river near Echternach Luxembourg and breach the Siegfried Line
07 Feb 1965
US begins regular bombing & strafing of North Vietnam
07 Feb 1971
Switzerland votes for national womens suffrage in a referendum - last European country to do so except for Liechtenstein
07 Feb 1976
Worlds then largest telescope at 605 cm the BTA-6 begins operations in the USSR
07 Feb 1983
Elizabeth Dole is sworn in as the 1st US female secretary of transportation
07 Feb 1992
Shannon Marketic 22 (California) crowned 41st Miss USA
07 Feb 2005
Britains Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world taking 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes 33 seconds
07 Feb 2018
Brock Purdy signs his letter of intent to commit to Iowa State University
07 Feb 1925
Anthropologist Raymond Dart publishes his landmark paper about the discovery of Australopithecus africanus (the Taung Child) confirming Charles Darwins prediction of an African human origin
07 Feb 1987
Dennis Conner and Stars & Stripes return the Americas Cup yachting trophy to US
07 Feb 2005
Britains Ellen MacArthur becomes the then fastest person to sail solo around the world taking 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes and 33 seconds
07 Feb 2021
Himalayan glacier crashes into the Dhauliganga river destroying a dam and causing a huge flood in Uttarakhand province India killing 26 leaving 150 missing
07 Feb 2021
Sarah Thomas becomes the first woman to referee a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay Florida
07 Feb 2022
European security facing its most dangerous moment since the Cold War amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine according to EU foreign policy chief [1]
07 Feb 2023
UK Metropolitan police officer David Carrick jailed for life for 85 serious offences including 48 rapes over 17 years amid calls for a radical overhaul of the police service [1]
07 Feb 1759
Thomas Siddel is reported to have harvested a 17-14 lb (7.8 kg) 47-ibch long potato from his garden in Chester England
07 Feb 1792
Austria and Prussia sign an anti-French covenant
07 Feb 1795
11th Amendment to US Constitution affirming power of state courts is ratified [1]
07 Feb 1842
Battle of Debre Tabor Ras Ali Alula Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien
07 Feb 1856
Colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation the Electoral Act of anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot
07 Feb 1872
Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College opens near Lorman Mississippi - 1st US black land grant college
07 Feb 1877
First American Guernsey Cattle Club is organized in New York City
07 Feb 1881
Battle at Ingogo Transvaal Boers defeat a superior British force
07 Feb 1915
First wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received
07 Feb 1933
Social-Democrat meeting in Berlin As thousands cheer Marxism is dead
07 Feb 1942
First indoor 15 pole vault by Cornelius Warmerdam at 15 38
07 Feb 1958
First showing of Dutch automatic transmission car the DAF 600
07 Feb 1964
The Beatles land at New Yorks JFK airport for 1st US visit
07 Feb 1969
Diane Crump (20) becomes 1st woman jockey to ride against men at a major US racetrack aboard Bridle n Bit in a race at Hialeah Park in Hialeah Florida [1]
07 Feb 1973
Rangers shut out Islanders 6-0 for the first time
07 Feb 1997
US and Russia announce a summit set for Helsinki on March 20-21
07 Feb 1999
Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father King Hussein bin Talal
07 Feb 2005
Britains Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world taking 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes and 33 seconds
07 Feb 2009
Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australian history
07 Feb 2018
All citrus fruit can be traced to the southeastern foothills of the Himalayas according to a DNA study published in Nature
07 Feb 2025
Greek island of Santorini is placed under a state of emergency amid a swarm of earthquakes that began 27 January [1]