Today in History
7 February
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| 1301 King Edward I of England revived the title of Prince of Wales and bestowed it on Edward of Caernarvon, later Edward II. | ||
| 1522 Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches | ||
| 1550 Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III | ||
| 1569 King Philip II forms inquistion in South America | ||
| 1613 Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia | ||
| 1653 Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France | ||
| 1668 Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace" | ||
| 1792 Austria and Prussia formed an alliance against France. | ||
| 1795 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states | ||
| 1795 Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies | ||
| 1812 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri | ||
| 1812 Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords | ||
| 1836 "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens | ||
| 1837 Gustav IV, king of Sweden 1792-1809, died. Due to his foreign policy, Sweden became totally isolated and in March 1809 he was overthrown in a coup. | ||
| 1864 Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida | ||
| 1878 Pope Pius IX died. At 31 years, 236 days, his pontificate was the longest in history | ||
| 1881 Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces | ||
| 1900 British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal | ||
| 1900 Labour Party forms in England | ||
| 1901 Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ||
| 1904 The biggest fire in the United States since the great Chicago blaze of 1871 broke out in Baltimore, destroying more than 2,600 buildings. | ||
| 1905 Oklahoma admitted to statehood | ||
| 1915 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received | ||
| 1915 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army | ||
| 1924 Mussolini govt exchanges diplomats with USSR | ||
| 1931 "Peter Ibbetson," an American opera composed by Deems Taylor, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. | ||
| 1933 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators | ||
| 1935 Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags | ||
| 1940 British railroads nationalized | ||
| 1941 The British captured Benghazi in Libya for the first time; they held it until April but were then forced to evacuate, recapturing it again in December. | ||
| 1944 Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy | ||
| 1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila | ||
| 1947 Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine | ||
| 1950 Georges Bidault forms French govt | ||
| 1950 US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime | ||
| 1959 Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution | ||
| 1959 Daniel Francois Malan, South African politician and creator of the apartheid policy, died. | ||
| 1962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 | ||
| 1962 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba | ||
| 1964 Amid scenes of mass hysteria, the Beatles pop group arrived in the United States for the first time. | ||
| 1965 Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali | ||
| 1968 Belgium govt of Vanden Boeynants falls | ||
| 1968 All 10 provincial premiers of Canada agreed to draft a new constitution giving the French language equal status with English throughout Canada. | ||
| 1969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO | ||
| 1971 In Switzerland, a referendum voted in favor of female suffrage. | ||
| 1974 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) | ||
| 1977 Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts | ||
| 1978 Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert | ||
| 1982 Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez was elected president of Costa Rica. | ||
| 1984 U.S. astronaut Bruce McCandless flew up to 100 yards from the Space Shuttle "Challenger" using only a powered backpack, the first time it had been done. | ||
| 1986 Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti | ||
| 1986 President Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti fled to France after demonstrations against his rule. | ||
| 1986 Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos | ||
| 1990 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators | ||
| 1990, the Soviet Communist Party leadership agreed to surrender its 70-year monopoly on power, paving the way for a multi-party democracy. | ||
| 1991 A mortar bomb attack was made on Number 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Prime Minister John Major, from a vehicle in a nearby street. | ||
| 1991 Popular leftist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president. | ||
| 1992 European Community ministers formally signed the Maastricht Treaty of European Union. | ||
| 1994 The European Union backed the use of air strikes to relieve besieged Sarajevo. | ||
| 1994 Iran arrested more than 20 "morally corrupt" suspects in a plot to assassinate President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. | ||
| 1996 Rene Preval became Haiti's second freely elected president. | ||
| 1998 18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan | ||
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