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What happened in history on this day: February 7?
On February 7 in ...
- 1969 - This Is Tom Jones debuts on ABC TV.
- 1977 - The 100th episode of US TV show Barnaby Jones airs.
- 1978 - The TV pilot movie Mork & Mindy airs.
- 1985 - The 100th episode of US TV show Magnum, PI airs.
- 1988 - FOX airs the first episode of TV show America's Most Wanted, hosted by John Walsh.
- 1993 - TV's Flintstones characters Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm Bamm Rubble get married
- 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.
Births on February 7
- 1908 - Birth of Clarence Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe in Oakland, California, USA; swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon).
- 1912 - Birth of Derek Farr in London, England; actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large).
- 1917 - Birth of Dick Emery in London, England; actor/comedian (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love).
- 1920 - Birth of Eddie Bracken in Astoria, Queens, New York, USA; actor (Summer Stock, Young and Willing).
- 1923 - Birth of Keefe Brasselle in Elyria, Ohio, USA; actor (Be Our Guest).
- 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).
- 1925 - Birth of Romolo Valli; actor (Bobby Deerfield, Fistful of Dynamite, La Viaccia).
- 1940 - Birth of Gary Bond in England; actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of a Thousand Days).
- 1946 - Birth of Pete Postlethwaite; British actor (The Boxer, Sharpe's Company, Lost for Words).
- 1954 - Birth of Miguel Ferrer in Santa Monica, California, USA; actor (Robocop).
- 1960 - Birth of James Spader in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Endless Love, Wall Street, Mannequin).
- 1963 - Birth of Jason Adams in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Ryan's Hope, A Nightmare on Elm Street).
- 1965 - Birth of Jason Gedrick in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Heavenly Kid, Class of '96).
- 1966 - Birth of Chris Rock; comedian (Saturday Night Live, CB4, Boomerang).
- 1978 - Birth of Ashton Kutcher; American actor (That '70s Show).
- 1985 - Birth of [Alber]Tina Marie Majorino; actress (Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman).
- 1986 - Birth of Deanna Casaluce; Canadian actress (Degrassi).
Deaths on February 7
- 1958 - Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at age 76.
- 1965 - Nance O'Neil, actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at age 90.
- 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).
- 1974 - Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at age 61.
- 1975 - Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at age 54.
- 1980 - Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at age 73.
- 1984 - Brooks West, actor (Richard - My Friend Irma), dies at age 67.
- 1987 - Death of A. Davidson Dunton at age 74; newspaperman, Chairman of the CBC's Board of Governors, President of Carleton University.
- 1991 - Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at age 75.
- 1999 - Death of Bobby Troup at age 80 of a heart attack; jazz musician, actor (Emergency TV show).
- 2007 - Death of Barbara McNair at age 72 from throat cancer; singer-actress (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Ed Sullivan Show, General Hospital).
- 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.
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