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Today in History ~ February 7
Events1301 - Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales
1522 - Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches
1569 - King Philip II orders inquistion in South America
1613 - Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia
1639 - Academie Francaise begins Dictionary of French Language
1668 - English King William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"
1792 - Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna
1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified
1812 - Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
1827 - Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)
1836 - "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens
1839 - Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
1862 - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island , NC
1864 - Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
1872 - Alcorn A & M College opens
1876 - Pres Grant's private secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
1882 - Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
1891 - Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
1904 - Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
1905 - Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
1905 - Oklahoma admitted to statehood
1910 - Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler," premieres in Paris
1914 - Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
1914 - Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, SF
1915 - 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
1922 - John Willard's "Cat & the Canary," premieres in NYC
1924 - Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR
1931 - US opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera NYC
1931 - Aviator Amelia Earhart married publisher George P. Putnam in Noank, Conn.
1933 - Social-Dem meeting in Berlin -- "As thousands cheer" Marxism is pronounced dead
1934 - 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
1936 - President Franklin Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president.
1936 - Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer
1940 - Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres(NYC)
1941 - Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey Orch record "Everything Happens to Me"
1943 - The government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the remainder of the year.
1944 - Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records
1944 - Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy
1945 - US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
1947 - Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff; he was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
1949 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees)
1950 - Sen Joe McCarthy claims "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1956 - Autherine Lucy, the first black person admitted to the University of Alabama, was expelled after she accused school officials of conspiring in the riots that accompanied her court-ordered enrollment.
1958 - Brooklyn Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
1959 - Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
1960 - Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1961 - Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
1962 - President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
1962 - Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational
1964 - Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
1964 - The Beatles began their first American tour as they arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. [H]
1965 - Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1965 - US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
1968 - Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in NYC
1969 - Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1971 - Women in Switzerland won the right to vote.
1973 - The Senate voted to set up a committee to investigate the break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington, D.C's Watergate complex.
1974 - Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk.
1984 - David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time
1985 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of NYC
1986 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1986 - Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti
1986 - Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
1990 - Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
1990 - USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties [H]
1991 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide was inaugurated as Haiti's first democratically elected president in 186 years.
1992 - Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin and French President Francois Mitterrand signed a cooperation treaty in Paris.
1992 - Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson testified at his rape trial in Indianapolis that his accuser, a Miss Black America contestant, had consented to having sex with him.
1992 - Three people were killed and one critically injured when a gunman angry with his girlfriend opened fire in Winter Garden, Fla.
1993 - Another 13 women accused Sen. Bob Packwood of improper advances, bringing the total to 23 women who have said the Oregon Republican harassed them with unwelcome sexual overtures.
1994 - Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
1995 - The alleged "mastermind" in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, was arrested in Pakistan. He was extradited to New York the next day.
1995 - President Clinton invited the two sides in the major league baseball strike to the White House in a final
effort to reach an agreement. The next day, he announced the effort had failed and called for binding arbitration.
1997 - The Air Force suspended all its flights in restricted training areas on the East Coast after a pair of close calls between National Guard jets and civilian airliners.
1997 - Mindful of Russian President Boris Yeltsin's ailments, President Clinton agreed to shift their March summit meeting from the United States to Helsinki, Finland.
1998 - The Winter Olympics opened in Nagano, Japan.
1999 - Jordan's King Hussein died of cancer at age 63; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Abdullah.
2001 - The Senate voted to release $582 million in dues owed the United Nations.
2001 - The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a trip to the international space station.
Birthdays Today
1478 - Sir Thomas Moore ('Man for All Seasons') (statesman, lawyer/lord chancellor of England, author; guilty of treason, beheaded; sainted in 1935)
1612 - Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)
1693 - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40) [NS]
1710 - William Boyce, English organist/composer of Cathedral music
1739 - Joseph Pouteau, composer
1740 - Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP
1801 - John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
1804 - John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
1812 - Charles Dickens in Portsmouth, England (novelist: David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist)
1837 - James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder (writer: Little House series including Little House on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods)
1870 - Alfred Adler, Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)
1871 - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer
1883 - Eubie (James Hubert) Blake (pianist, writer of 1,000 songs: I'm Just Wild about Harry, Memories of You; received Presidential Medal of Freedom [1981])
1885 - Sinclair Lewis (1st American Nobel prize-winning author [1930]: Elmer Gantry; refused Pulitzer prize: Arrowsmith [1926], Main Street)
1908 - Buster (Clarence) Crabbe (Olympic Gold medal swimmer, actor: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Billy the Kid)
1920 - Eddie Bracken (actor: Summer Stock, National Lampoon's Vacation, Tales from the Darkside; TV quiz show panelist)
1920 - Oscar Brand (folk singer, composer: Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads; music director: NBC-TV Sunday; host: Let's Sing Out, Draw Me a Laugh)
1921 - Wilma Lee Cooper (Leary) (country singer: Come Walk with Me with husband, Stoney; group: Clinch Mountain Clan with daughter, Carol Lee)
1923 - Keefe Brasselle (Brusselle) (actor: Skirts Ahoy!, Streets of Sin; Eddie Cantor Story: singer in title role)
1932 - Gay Talese (writer: The Kingdom and the Power, Unto the Sons, Honor Thy Father)
1937 - Juan Pizarro (baseball)
1941 - James King (basketball)
1946 - Jeff Van Note (football)
1948 - Jimmy Greenspoon (musician: organ: group: Three Dog Night: Joy to the World, It Ain't Easy, Black and White, Shambalaya)
1950 - Burt Hooten (baseball pitcher Texas at Austin: NCAA Division I career record of four wins in 1969-70 [shares record])
1950 - Marilyn Cochran (skier)
1951 - Benny Ayala (baseball)
1951 - Tom Williams (hockey)
1953 - Robert Brazile (football)
1956 - Garth Brooks, Tulsa Okla, country vocalist (No Fences, Friends in Low Places)Famous deaths
0590 - Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague
1609 - Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
1743 - Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57
1749 - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76
1779 - William Boyce, composer, dies at 67
1820 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57 at 58
1827 - Franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73
1865 - John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64
1878 - Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
1938 - Harvey S. Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Fren physician/author/anti-semite, dies at 67
1967 - Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74
1979 - Josef Mengele, Nazi concentration camp "Angel of Death" Death not discovered until 1985. [H]
1980 - Ernst Kunz, composer, dies at 88
1993 - Lillian Gish dies
1996 - Mercer Ellington dies
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan died following a battle with cancer. He was 63. Hussein had ruled Jordan for 46 years.
2001 - Death claimed singer-actress Dale Evans at age 88
2001 - Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh, at age 94.
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