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What happened in history on this day: February 7?
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- 590 - Pelagius II Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague.
- 1238 - Mongols attack and burn Vladimir in Russia.
- 1301 - Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes first prince of Wales.
- 1478 - Birth of Thomas More lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia).
- 1522 - Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches.
- 1550 - Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III.
- 1554 - Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt and supporters defeated, captured.
- 1556 - Birth of Maria van Nassau Dutch countess of Buren.
- 1569 - King Philip II forms inquistion in South America.
- 1589 - Birth of Jacob de Witt Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician.
- 1593 - Jacques Amyot French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at age 79.
- 1609 - Ferdinand I cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies.
- 1612 - Birth of Thomas Killigrew English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men).
- 1613 - Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia.
- 1639 - Académie Française begins the Dictionary of the French Language.
- 1643 - First European landing on island in South Atlantic by Dutchman Claes Gerritsz Bierenbroodspot, named Tristan da Cunha.
- 1649 - English House of Commons votes to abolish the office of king.
- 1653 - Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendent of Finance of France.
- 1655 - Birth of Jean-François Regnard French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria).
- 1668 - Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace".
- 1688 - Birth of Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange.
- 1693 - Birth of Anna Ivanova Romanova empress of Russia (1730-40).
- 1700 - Birth of Philippe Buache French geographer/cartographer (Contourlijnen).
- 1725 - Death of Johann Philipp Krieger at age 75 in Weissenfels; composer, court organist at Bayreuth (1670), music director at Halle and Weissenfels (1680+).
- 1740 - Birth of Adam-Philippe Custine French earl/General/Member of Parliament.
- 1753 - Birth of Rhijnvis Feith Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa).
- 1764 - Birth of Ann Radcliffe London, Gothic novelist (Mysteries of Udolpho).
- 1788 - British Captain Arthur Philip, flotilla commander of ships arriving at Australia, raises his flag at Sydney Cove.
- 1792 - Austria and Prussia sign anti-French covenant.
- 1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states.
- 1795 - Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies.
- 1803 - Birth of Edgar Quinet; French writer/historian (Ahasvérus).
- 1804 - Birth of John Deere; pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
- 1809 - Birth of Frederik Paludan-Müller; Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden).
- 1812 - In New Madrid, Missouri, USA, a magnitude 7.4 - 8.2 earthquake occurs, the largest historical earthquake in Missouri. The town of New Madrid is destroyed.
- 1812 - Birth of Charles Dickens in England; novelist (Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities).
- 1817 - Birth of Leroy Pope Walker; US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861).
- 1823 - Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at age 58.
- 1824 - Birth of William Higgins; discovered nature of spiral "nebulae".
- 1827 - Ballet (Deserter) first introduced to US at Bowery Theater (New York City, New York).
- 1831 - Belgium adopts its Constitution.
- 1833 - Birth of Ricardo Palma in Peru; writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas).
- 1834 - Birth of Dmitri I Mendelejev; Russian chemist (devised Periodic Table of elements).
- 1837 - Birth of James Augustus Henry Murray in Scotland; created Oxford Dictionary.
- 1839 - Birth of Nicolaas G Pierson; Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901).
- 1849 - American heavyweight boxing championship event is held at Roach's Point, Maryland. Tom Hyer defeats James Ambrose AKA Yankee Sullivan in 17 minutes, 18 seconds.
- 1857 - Félix PBOG Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at age 65.
- 1862 - Birth of Bernard Maybeck; US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco).
- 1862 - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, CSA.
- 1864 - Birth of Arthur Collins; singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet).
- 1865 - John Henry Winder, Confederate Brigadier-General/provost marshal, dies at age 64.
- 1866 - Birth of Raf[ael] Verhulst [Koen Ravestein]; Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus).
- 1867 - Birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder in Wisconsin, USA; children's book author (Little House on the Prairie).
- 1869 - Birth of Jindrich S Baar; Czechoslovakia pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura).
- 1870 - Birth of Alfred Adler in Austria; psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex).
- 1870 - The US Supreme Court rules in Hepburn versus Griswold that Congress making paper notes legal tender was unconstitutional.
- 1872 - Birth of Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis; Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister.
- 1876 - US President Ulysses Grant's private-secretary Orville is acquitted in Whiskey Ring.
- 1877 - Birth of Julius Curtius; German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-).
- 1878 - Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at age 85.
- 1881 - Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces.
- 1882 - Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan knocks out Paddy Ryan in Mississippi, USA.
- 1883 - Birth of Eubie Blake; ragtime composer/pianist ("I'm Just Wild About Harry", "Memories of You").
- 1883 - Lieutenant-Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako, Niger.
- 1884 - Birth of George Ward Linn, in Ohio, USA; founder and editor of Linn's Weekly Stamp News.
- 1884 - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms.
- 1885 - Birth of Sinclair Lewis; novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel Prize 1930).
- 1889 - Astronomical Society of Pacific holds first meeting in San Francisco, California.
- 1892 - In Verkhoyansk, Russia, an Asian record cold temperature of -90 degrees F is recorded.
- 1896 - Birth of Harold Hoffman in South Amboy, New Jersey, USA; American politician (Governor-New Jersey).
- 1896 - Birth of Jacob Paludan; Danish pharmacist/writer (Jørgen Stein).
- 1899 - Birth of Arvid Pelshe; Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member.
- 1900 - British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal.
- 1900 - Labour Party forms in England.
- 1901 - Birth of Bob den Doolaard [Cornelis Spoelstra]; Dutch writer (Grape Pickers).
- 1901 - Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
- 1902 - Birth of Ethelda Blebtrey in Waterford, New York, USA; 100 metre swimmer (Olympics-gold-1920).
- 1904 - Baltimore, Maryland, USA catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks).
- 1904 - Birth of Milton Krims; writer (Speed).
- 1905 - Birth of Paul Nizan; French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration).
- 1905 - Birth of Ulf Svante von Euler in Sweden; physiologist (Nobel Prize 1970).
- 1905 - Dominican Republic signs treaty turning over customs collection to USA.
- 1905 - Oklahoma admitted to statehood of USA.
- 1906 - Birth of Henry P'u-i; last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo.
- 1908 - Birth of Clarence Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe in Oakland, California, USA; swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon).
- 1909 - Birth of Joseph "Poeske" Scherens; Flemish cyclist (champion sprinter 1932-37).
- 1911 - Harry Graham, cricket player (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies.
- 1912 - Second Dutch 11-city skate (Coen de Koenig wins with time of 11:40).
- 1912 - Birth of Derek Farr in London, England; actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large).
- 1912 - Birth of Jane Ross in Spokane, Washington, USA; actress (Audrey - Phyllis, Coed Fever).
- 1914 - Birth of David Ignatow; US poet (Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead).
- 1915 - First wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received.
- 1915 - Second Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surround a Russian army.
- 1917 - Birth of Dick Emery in London, England; actor/comedian (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love).
- 1919 - Birth of Ilse Pausin in Austria; figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936).
- 1920 - Alexander Koltsjak, Admiral/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, is executed.
- 1920 - Birth of Eddie Bracken in Astoria, Queens, New York, USA; actor (Summer Stock, Young and Willing).
- 1920 - Birth of Oscar Brand in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; folk singer ("Draw Me a Laugh", "Get Up Stand Up").
- 1921 - Birth of Athol Rowan; cricket player (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner).
- 1923 - Birth of George H H Lascelles; English earl of Harewood/leader (Covent Garden).
- 1923 - Birth of Keefe Brasselle in Elyria, Ohio, USA; actor (Be Our Guest).
- 1924 - Birth of Cathy Long; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Louisiana, 1985-86).
- 1924 - Birth of Dora Bryan [Broadhurst] in Southport, England; actress (Taste of Honey).
- 1924 - Birth of Hattie Jacques in Kent, England; actress (Carry on Doctor).
- 1924 - Benito Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR.
- 1925 - Birth of Marius Constant in Rumania; Dutch composer/conductor (Paradise Lost).
- 1925 - Birth of Romolo Valli; actor (Bobby Deerfield, Fistful of Dynamite, La Viaccia).
- 1926 - Birth of Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov in USSR; cosmonaut (Voskhod I).
- 1932 - Birth of Alfred M Worden in Jackson, Michigan, USA; Colonel US Air Force/astronaut (Apollo 15).
- 1932 - Birth of Gay Talese; author (Honor Thy Father).
- 1933 - Colonial troops in Suriname kill two demonstrators.
- 1933 - Social-Democrat meeting in Berlin, Germany "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead.
- 1934 - First contract for Tennessee-Valley Authority power, Tupelo, Mississippi.
- 1934 - Birth of King Curtis [Curtis Ousley] in Fort Worth, Texas, USA; saxophonist (Memphis Soul Stew).
- 1934 - Birth of Piet Bukman; Dutch minister for Development Aid (CDA).
- 1935 - Birth of Herb Kohl; American politician (Senator-Democrat Wisconsin).
- 1936 - A flag is authorized for the US Vice President.
- 1937 - Elihu Root, US Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel Prize 1912), dies at age 91.
- 1940 - Birth of Gary Bond in England; actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of a Thousand Days).
- 1940 - British railroads are nationalized.
- 1940 - Francis Ford, cricket player (5 Tests for England versus Australia 1894-95), dies.
- 1940 - RKO Radio Pictures world premieres Disney's second animated feature film, Pinocchio, at the Central Theatre in New York City, USA.
- 1942 - First indoor 15-foot pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam, 15 feet 3/8 inch).
- 1942 - Birth of Ton [ACHM] de Kok; Dutch Member of Parliament (CDA).
- 1942 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, marathon runner (Olympics-gold-1908), dies at age 56.
- 1943 - Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to three more pairs in 1942).
- 1943 - Japanese forces evacuate Gualcanal.
- 1944 - Birth of Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst; Dutch foreign state secretary (CDA).
- 1944 - Birth of Berry [AH] Esselink; Dutch Member of Parliament (CDA).
- 1944 - Birth of Michael A Andrews; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Texas, 1983-).
- 1944 - Germans launch counter-offensive at Anzio, Italy.
- 1945 - Birth of Gerald Davies; British rugby player.
- 1945 - General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila, Philippines.
- 1945 - US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer.
- 1946 - Birth of Pete Postlethwaite; British actor (The Boxer, Sharpe's Company, Lost for Words).
- 1946 - Birth of Hector Babenco; director (Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman).
- 1946 - Birth of Lawrence Ascott; rocker (Isotope).
- 1946 - Birth of Sammy Johns; rocker (Politics, Religion and Her).
- 1946 - Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill.
- 1947 - Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine.
- 1948 - "Red" McKenzie blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies.
- 1948 - Birth of Jimmy Greenspoon in Los Angeles, California, USA; rock organist (Three Dog Night - "Joy to the World").
- 1948 - Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as US Army Chief of Staff.
- 1949 - Birth of Alan Lancaster; bassist (Status Quo - "Down Down", "On the Level").
- 1949 - Birth of Sunil Wettimuny; cricket player (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups).
- 1949 - Joe DiMaggio becomes first US$100,000 per year baseball player (New York Yankees).
- 1950 - Birth of Dan Quisenberry; baseball pitcher (Kansas City Royals).
- 1950 - Birth of Marilyn Cochran in Burlington, Vermont, USA; skier (Olympics-1972).
- 1950 - Georges Bidault forms French government.
- 1950 - Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- 1950 - US and Great Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime.
- 1951 - Birth of Manfred Schumann in the German Federal Republic; bobsled (Olympics-silver/bronze-1976).
- 1954 - Birth of Miguel Ferrer in Santa Monica, California, USA; actor (Robocop).
- 1955 - Birth of Rolf Benirschke in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; NFL place kicker / Wheel of Fortune host.
- 1958 - Birth of Manuel Mijares in Mexico; Spanish vocalist (Maria Bonita).
- 1958 - Brooklyn Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
- 1958 - Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced.
- 1958 - Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at age 76.
- 1959 - Birth of Brian Travers; rock saxophonist (UB40 - "Red Red Wine").
- 1959 - Fidel Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution.
- 1959 - Cessna jet lands in Las Vegas after 65 days without landing (refuels in air).
- 1959 - Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at age 84.
- 1959 - Dorothy Rigney sells Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported US$27 million.
- 1960 - Birth of James Spader in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Endless Love, Wall Street, Mannequin).
- 1960 - Birth of Steve Bronski; rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat - "Smalltown Boy").
- 1960 - Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at age 57.
- 1960 - Old handwriting found at Qumran, near the Dead Sea.
- 1961 - Jane Fonda makes her acting debut in the NBC drama A String of Beads.
- 1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician/author/anti-Semite, dies at age 67.
- 1962 - Arthur Carr, cricket player (11 Tests for England 22-29), dies shovelling snow.
- 1962 - Birth of Alan Sippy; cricket player (dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980s).
- 1962 - Birth of David Bryan; rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi - "You Give Love a Bad Name").
- 1962 - Birth of Garth Brooks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; country singer ("No Fences", "Ropin' the Wind").
- 1962 - Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine in Voelklingen, Germany, kills 298.
- 1962 - US President John Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba.
- 1963 - Birth of Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; Lieutenant Commander US Navy/astronaut.
- 1963 - Birth of Jason Adams in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Ryan's Hope, A Nightmare on Elm Street).
- 1963 - Birth of Roland Lefebvre; cricket pace bowler (Glamorgan and Holland).
- 1964 - Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream.
- 1964 - First visit to the United States by the Beatles.
- 1964 - Birth of Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead in Riverside, California, USA; swimmer (Olympics-silver-1984).
- 1964 - Hermann A J Kees, German Egyptologist, dies at age 77.
- 1964 - Lillian Copeland, US discus thrower (Olympics-gold-32), dies at age 59.
- 1965 - Birth of Jason Gedrick in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Heavenly Kid, Class of '96).
- 1965 - Birth of Kristal Parker-Gregory in Columbus, Ohio, USA; LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-20th).
- 1965 - Birth of Reginald Thal; soccer player (MVV).
- 1965 - Nance O'Neil, actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at age 90.
- 1965 - Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curaçao.
- 1965 - US begins regular bombing and strafing of North Vietnam.
- 1966 - Birth of Chris Rock; comedian (Saturday Night Live, CB4, Boomerang).
- 1966 - Birth of Kristin Otto; swimmer (first woman athlete to win six gold medals at the Olympic Games (1988)).
- 1967 - Birth of Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene in Dayton, Ohio, USA; long jumper (Olympics-bronze-1992, 1996).
- 1967 - Henry Morgenthau, US minister of Finance (devalued dollar), dies at age 74.
- 1968 - Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls.
- 1968 - Birth of Martin Sinner in Koblenz, Germany; tennis star (1990 Pretoria).
- 1968 - Birth of Peter Bondra in Lutsk, Ukraine; NHL right wing (Washington Capitals).
- 1968 - Death of Nick Adams at age 36 of a drug overdose; actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story, Johnny Yuma - The Rebel TV show, Saints and Sinners).
- 1968 - Death of Stuart Foster at age 49; singer (with Tommy Dorsey, Ina Ray Hutton, Galen Drake Show TV show).
- 1969 - This Is Tom Jones debuts on ABC TV.
- 1969 - Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of Palestinian Liberation Organization.
- 1969 - Birth of Bucky Richardson; US football quarterback (Houston Oilers).
- 1969 - Birth of Fiona Robinson in Collie, Western Australia; basketball player (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 1970 - Hollywood Palace last airs on ABC TV.
- 1970 - Birth of Chris Gardocki; NFL punter (Indianapolis Colts).
- 1970 - Birth of Denis Chasse in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets).
- 1970 - Birth of Stanley Roberts; NBA center (Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves).
- 1970 - LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 points in losing cause.
- 1970 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn.
- 1970 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood.
- 1971 - Birth of Andrew Currey; Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Marvin Graves; Canadian Football League quarterback (Montreal Alouettes).
- 1971 - Women win the right to vote in Switzerland.
- 1972 - Birth of Aftab Habib; cricket player (Leicestershire right-handed batsman 1996).
- 1972 - Birth of John Slaney in Saint John's, Newfoundland, Canada; NHL defenseman (Los Angeles Kings).
- 1973 - First time New York Rangers shut-out New York Islanders 6-0.
- 1973 - Birth of Billy Baumhoff in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; soccer midfielder/forward (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Juwan Howard; NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards).
- 1973 - Birth of Kristin Godridge in Traralgon, Australia; tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore).
- 1973 - Birth of Leanne Schuster in Mesa, Arizona, USA; WPVA volleyball player (National-9th-1995).
- 1973 - Birth of Sonia Paquette in St-Janvier, Québec, Canada; hurdler (Olympics-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Tim Bowens; NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins).
- 1973 - US Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities.
- 1974 - Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at age 61.
- 1974 - Birth of Ryan Phillips; linebacker (New York Giants).
- 1974 - Birth of Steve Nash; NBA guard (Phoenix Suns).
- 1974 - Grenada gains independence from Britain.
- 1974 - Mel Brooks' film Blazing Saddles opens in movie theaters.
- 1975 - Birth of Alexandre Daigle in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; NHL center (Ottawa Senators).
- 1975 - Birth of Marika Lehtimaki; ice hockey center (Finland, Olympics-1998).
- 1975 - Birth of Wes Borland; guitarist (Limp Bizkit).
- 1975 - Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at age 54.
- 1975 - NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28-game road losing streak.
- 1976 - Birth of Hrafnhildur Hafsteinsdottir; Miss Iceland-Universe (1996).
- 1976 - Birth of Terry Battle; running back (Detroit Lions).
- 1976 - Darryl Sittler, Toronto Maple Leafs, sets NHL record with ten points in a game.
- 1976 - US Federal Communications Commission raids and shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn, New York).
- 1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR).
- 1977 - Birth of Christine Scheels in New Berlin, Wisconsin; speed skater (Olympics-1994).
- 1977 - Birth of Hillary Wolf in Chicago, Illinois; extra lightweight judoka (Olympics-1996).
- 1977 - Soyuz 24 launches with two cosmonauts.
- 1977 - The 100th episode of US TV show Barnaby Jones airs.
- 1978 - Birth of Ashton Kutcher; American actor (That '70s Show).
- 1978 - Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert.
- 1978 - The TV pilot movie Mork & Mindy airs.
- 1979 - Birth of Cerina Vincent; Miss Nevada Teen-USA (1996).
- 1979 - Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumédienne in Algeria.
- 1979 - Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for West Indies versus India at Kanpur.
- 1979 - Death of Josef Mengele of drowning near Sao Paulo, Brazil; German experimental doctor, the Angel of Death, conducted inhuman medical experiments at the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- 1979 - Supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini take over Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration; the final session of the Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.
- 1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science, and will remain that way for 20 years.
- 1979 - Pink Floyd premiere their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles, California.
- 1979 - Toronto Maple Leafs' Darryl Sittler scores NHL record ten points (6 goals).
- 1980 - Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at age 73.
- 1982 - Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica.
- 1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
- 1983 - Birth of Elin Grindemyr; Swedish model.
- 1984 - Michael Jackson awarded a 4-foot-high platinum disc by CBS.
- 1984 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
- 1984 - Brooks West, actor (Richard - My Friend Irma), dies at age 67.
- 1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official anthem of New York City, New York.
- 1985 - Birth of [Alber]Tina Marie Majorino; actress (Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman).
- 1985 - New Jersey Devils' Don Lever becomes 57th NHL player to score 300 goals.
- 1985 - Uday Merchant, cricket player (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies.
- 1985 - The 100th episode of US TV show Magnum, PI airs.
- 1986 - Birth of Deanna Casaluce; Canadian actress (Degrassi).
- 1986 - Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France, ending 28 years of family rule; Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti.
- 1986 - Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns give the election to Marcos.
- 1986 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas.
- 1987 - David Savoy Junior, rock manager (Hüsker Du), commits suicide at age 24.
- 1987 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano.
- 1987 - For only the second time, a Major League Baseball player is forced to take a pay cut due to salary arbitration. Los Angeles Dodgers' pitcher Orel Hershiser signs for US$800,000 which is a twenty percent reduction.
- 1987 - Death of A. Davidson Dunton at age 74; newspaperman, Chairman of the CBC's Board of Governors, President of Carleton University.
- 1988 - 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago, Illinois.
- 1988 - Lin[wood V] Carter, American science-fiction writer (Lost World of Time), dies at age 57.
- 1988 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6.
- 1988 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic.
- 1988 - FOX airs the first episode of TV show America's Most Wanted, hosted by John Walsh.
- 1989 - 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- 1989 - The Los Angeles, California, City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.
- 1990 - Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies.
- 1990 - Death of Jimmy Van Heusen AKA Edward Chester Babcock at age 77; American composer (over 75 songs for Frank Sinatra, "My Kind of Town", "The Second Time Around", "Call Me Irresponsible").
- 1990 - Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators.
- 1990 - Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies from pneumonia at age 88.
- 1990 - The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
- 1990 - Oil tanker American Trader leaks 1.1 million litres of crude oil from a gash in the hull, causing an oil slick 22km long polluting Bosa Chica, a southern California nature reserve.
- 1991 - Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin, and Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame.
- 1991 - Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at age 75.
- 1991 - Gladys LaVerne dies of heart problems at age 87.
- 1991 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's first elected president.
- 1991 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
- 1991 - Death of Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (born 1920).
- 1992 - Shannon Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA.
- 1992 - The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.
- 1993 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at age 49 (born 1943).
- 1993 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20.
- 1993 - TV's Flintstones characters Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm Bamm Rubble get married
- 1993 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic.
- 1993 - W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at age 82.
- 1994 - 21st American Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins.
- 1994 - Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch Social-Democrat minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at age 74.
- 1994 - Richard Bissell, US under-director of US Central Intelligence Agency (Pig's Bay), dies at age 84.
- 1994 - Death of Witold Lutoslawski, Polish composer (born 1913).
- 1995 - Helen Wallis, cartographer/librarian, dies at age 70.
- 1995 - Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting.
- 1995 - Massimo Pallottino, Italian archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at age 86.
- 1998 - (to February 22) The XVIII Olympic Winter Games are held in Nagano, Japan.
- 1998 - NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7.
- 1998 - Death of Lawrence Sanders, American author (born 1920).
- 1999 - King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer (born 1935), and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.
- 1999 - Death of Bobby Troup at age 80 of a heart attack; jazz musician, actor (Emergency TV show).
- 2000 - Stipe Mesic is elected president of Croatia.
- 2000 - A barge holding 1.8 million litres of oil sinks to the bottom of the Amazon River in Brazil.
- 2001 - A comet plunges into the Sun.
- 2001 - Death of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (born 1906).
- 2003 - In Bogotá, Colombia, a car bomb explodes in the parking garage of the El Nogal social club, killing 35, injuring 160.
- 2004 - Several leaders of Abnaa el-Balad are arrested in Israel.
- 2005 - The Detroit Tigers sign right-fielder Magglio Ordonez for five-years for US$75 million.
- 2006 - An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
- 2006 - Venezuela's Caracas Lions wins its first Caribbean Series championship since 1989, defeating the Dominican Republic's Licey Tigers.
- 2007 - HSBC announces it is setting aside US$10 billion to cover bad loans in its US mortgage division.
- 2007 - Death of Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927).
- 2007 - Death of Barbara McNair at age 72 from throat cancer; singer-actress (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Ed Sullivan Show, General Hospital).
- 2008 - New lunar year 4705, Year of the Rat to the Chinese system of Earthly Branches.
- 2008 - STS-122: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches to deliver the European-built Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station.
- 2008 - Death of Andrew Bertie, British Grand Master of the Order of Malta (born 1929).
- 2009 - A rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante automobile, which sat in a Tyneside garage for 47 years, sells at auction for 3.4 million euros (US$4.4 million) in Paris, France.
- 2009 - Bolivia's President Evo Morales enacts a new constitution to empower the country's indigenous majority and allows for land reform.
- 2009 - At the World Money Fair in Berlin, Germany, World Coin News presents awards to winners of its 26th annual Coin of the Year contest (for 2007-dated coins). Coin of the Year: 500-tugrik silver coin of Mongolia, portraying a gulo gulo with diamonds for eyes.
- 2009 - James Whitmore, actor of movies (The Last Frontier, Oklahoma!, Planet of the Apes, The Shawshank Redemption, Battleground, Golden Globe award), television (The Law and Mr. Jones, Temperatures Rising, The Practice, Emmy award), and theater (Give 'em Hell, Harry, Command Decision, Tony award), dies at age 87 in Malibu, California, of lung cancer.
- 2009 - The deadliest bushfires in Australian history begin; they kill 173, injure 500 more, and leave 7,500 homeless.
- 2009 - The number of U.S. workers drawing unemployment aid reaches a record high of 4.99 million, the highest since records began in 1967.
- 2010 - Death of André Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (born 1936).
- 2010 - Ukrainian voters elect Viktor Yanukovich as new president, narrowly defeating Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
- 2010 - The New Orleans Saints defeat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in the NFL Super Bowl at Dolphin Stadium in New Orleans, to claim their first NFL title.
- 2010 - The NFL Super Bowl is watched by more than 106 million people in the U.S., surpassing the 1983 finale of M*A*S*H to become the most-watched program in U.S. television history, according to the Neilsen Company.
- 2014 - (to February 23) The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia.
- 2016 - North Korea launches a long-range rocket into space, violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.
- 2017 - Death of Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (born 1940).
- 2017 - Death of Smail Hamdani, 11th Prime Minister of Algeria (born 1930).
- 2019 - Anti-government protests demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse begin in several cities across the country.
- 2022 - Carnival Cruise Line announces the Aida cruise ship AIDAmira (built in 1999) will leave the fleet by March.
- 2023 - In a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma Thunder in Los Angeles, California, LeBron James breaks the NBA's all-time scoring record with his 38,387th point, passing previous record holder Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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