Historical Events on February 7

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• 457 Leo I crowned Eastern Roman Emperor, 1st to be crowned by the Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1074 Battle of Montesarchio: Prince of Benevento, Pandulf IV killed battling the encroaching Normans in southern Italy
• 1238 Mongolian forces led by General Batu capture and burn the important Russian city of Vladimir, after an eight-day siege

• 1522 Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish and Austrian Branches

• 1613 Michail Romanov (aged 16) becomes Tsar of Russia
• 1639 Academie Française begins Dictionary of French Language

• 1792 Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
• 1792 Domenico Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto" premieres in Vienna
• 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

• 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)
• 1818 1st successful US educational magazine "Academician" begins (NYC)
• 1827 Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)
• 1831 Belgium adopts its Constitution

• 1842 Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien

• 1856 Colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the 1st piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot

• 1862 Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island, North Carolina
• 1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189
• 1864 Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
• 1872 Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College opens by Lorman, Mississippi - 1st US black land grant college
• 1876 US President Grant's private secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
• 1877 1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (NYC)
• 1881 Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces

• 1883 Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako, Niger
• 1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
• 1889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
• 1893 Vanderbilt University claims it participated in the first organised intercollegiate basketball game at the Nashville YMCA Gymnasium; Vanderbilt beats YMCA, 9-3
• 1894 The Cripple Creek miners' strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado
• 1900 British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal
• 1903 VVV '03 soccer club is established in the Dutch southeastern city of Venlo
• 1904 Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
• 1905 Dominican Republic signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
• 1907 Conservative coalition take over Reichstag in Germany after rallying conservatives against the threat of a socialist government
• 1907 The Mud March, first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

• 1910 Edmond Rostand's play "Chantecler" premieres in Paris
• 1912 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)

• 1914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco
• 1915 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
• 1915 Second Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
• 1920 Russian Imperial Navy Admiral Kolchak, leader of anti-communist "White Movement" executed by Bolshevik firing squad in Irkutsk, Russian SFSR
• 1922 John Willard's play "Cat & the Canary" premieres in NYC

• 1928 1st solo flight from England to Australia takes off from Croydon, piloted by Australian aviator Bert Hinkler (arrives 15 ½ days later)
• 1931 American opera "Peter Ibbetson" by Deems Taylor premieres at Metropolitan Opera, New York City
• 1933 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
• 1933 Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead
• 1934 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Mississippi
• 1936 Felix the Cat, animated film released by Van Beuren Studios licensed from Otto Messmer
• 1936 Flag of the US Vice President authorized

• 1942 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
• 1943 Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)

• 1944 Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy

• 1945 Harry Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of US Customs Court
• 1945 London, Washington and Moscow discuss final phase of World War II
• 1945 US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing the Sauer river near Echternach, Luxembourg, and breach the Siegfried Line
• 1946 Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee) bill
• 1947 The UK announces its intention to end the Mandate for Palestine
• 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

• 1950 Georges Bidault forms French government
• 1950 Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Department of State (equiv. Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

• 1958 1st showing of Dutch auto-transmission car, the DAF 600
• 1958 Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
• 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]

• 1960 Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea

• 1962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298

• 1964 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
• 1964 Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for 1st US tour

• 1965 Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
• 1965 US begins regular bombing & strafing of North Vietnam
• 1965 WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, Ohio (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1966 KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1967 A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people
• 1968 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls
• 1968 WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1969 British rock band The Who record their song "Pinball Wizard" at Morgan Studio's, London
• 1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
• 1969 The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service
• 1970 "Hollywood Palace" last airs on ABC TV
• 1970 "Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies
• 1970 LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause
• 1971 Switzerland votes for national women's suffrage in a referendum - last European country to do so except for Liechtenstein

• 1973 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0

• 1973 North Ireland's United Loyalist Council hold a one-day strike, loyalist paramilitaries forcibly try to stop people going to work
• 1973 US Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

• 1974 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)

• 1976 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn New York)
• 1976 Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9

• 1976 World's then largest telescope at 605 cm, the BTA-6 begins operations in the USSR
• 1977 Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
• 1978 Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
• 1979 "Supertrain", TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC
• 1979 Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds president Boumedienne in Algeria
• 1979 Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur

• 1982 Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica
• 1983 "José Cuervo" single released by Shelly West (Billboard Song of the Year 1983)
• 1983 Elizabeth Dole is sworn in as the 1st US female secretary of transportation
• 1984 American astronaut Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
• 1984 David (born without immunity system) touches his mother for 1st time at age 12

• 1985 "New York, New York" becomes the official anthem of New York City
• 1985 Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5"

• 1985 NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals

• 1987 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93
• 1987 Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring the America's Cup back to US

• 1987 Police in South Korea make hundreds of arrests during protest demonstrations, the country's biggest for 6 years, after a student died in custody

• 1990 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
• 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
• 1990 USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties

• 1991 Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president

• 1994 American actor and singer Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC) undergoes a liver transplant

• 1997 US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21
• 1998 NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7
• 1998 XVIII Winter Olympic Games open in Nagano, Japan
• 1999 Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
• 2000 Bahria University is established through Presidential Ordinance No. V of 2000 by the Government of Pakistan
• 2005 Britain's Ellen MacArthur becomes the then fastest person to sail solo around the world, taking 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds

• 2009 Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.

• 2013 Adam Ondra completes the first ascent of La Dura Dura in Spain, his second 9b+ (5.15c) after Change
• 2013 Azerbaijan launches its first satellite, Azerspace-1
• 2013 Eugène Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People" is vandalized at the Louvre-Lens museum, Northern France
• 2014 German treasurer Helmut Linssen resigns amid a scandal involving offshore banking accounts in the Bahamas and Panama
• 2014 XXII Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi, Russia
• 2016 Super Bowl L, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA: Denver Broncos beat Carolina Panthers, 24–10; MVP: Von Miller, Denver, LB
• 2018 "The Los Angeles Times" is bought by LA doctor Patrick Soon-Shiong from Tronc for $500 million
• 2018 All citrus fruit can be traced to the southeast foothills of the Himalayas, according to DNA study published in "Nature"

• 2018 Armed groups release 300 child soldiers from Yambio, South Sudan according to UN
• 2018 Brock Purdy signs his letter of intent to commit to Iowa State University
• 2018 DNA analysis of Chedder Man, UK's oldest complete skeleton shows he had dark skin and blue eyes

• 2018 White House aide Rob Porter resigns in wake of physical abuse allegations by ex-wives
• 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
• 2019 France recalls its Italian ambassador from Rome after Italian deputy PM Luigi Di Maio met with yellow vest protesters
• 2019 Measles cases in Europe highest in a decade, tripling in a year to 82,596 according to WHO
• 2019 Measles outbreak declared in the Philippines with 1,813 cases and 26 deaths
• 2019 New kangaroo fossil research published from Riversleigh, Australia, show Kangaroos learned to hop 20 million years ago, much earlier than first thought
• 2019 Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio declares national emergency over rape and sexual assault violence after instances double
• 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
• 2021 Sarah Thomas becomes the first woman to referee a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, Florida

• 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]

• 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]

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