The 7t o Februar is the 38t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 327 days ti come (328 in lowp years).
Events
1984: Bruce McCandless II on his spacewalk
2014: Openin o the Winter Olympic Gemmes in Sochi
- 1301 - The future King Edward II o Ingland becomes the first Inglis Prince o Wales.
- 1812 - New Madrid, Missouri, is hit bi a magnitude 8 yirdquauk.
- 1863 - Australie flagship "HMS Orpheus" sinks aff New Zealand, killin 189 oot o 259 fowk on baird.
- 1904 - The Great Fire o Baltimore, Maryland, destroys 1,500 biggins.
- 1935 - The baird gemme Monopoly is inventit.
- 1962 - The Unitit States bans aw Cuban imports an exports.
- 1971 - A referendum conductit amang men approves the richt o weemen tae vote in maist o Swisserland.
- 1974 - Grenada gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1979 - Pluto moves intae the orbit o Neptune.
- 1984 - Bruce McCandless II performs the first untethered spacewalk.
- 1986 - End o the rule o Jean-Claude Duvalier in Haiti.
- 1992 - The Maastricht Treaty is signed, creatin the European Union.
- 1998 - The 1998 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Nagano, Japan, begin.
- 1999 - Abdullah II o Jordan becomes King.
- 1999 - The NASA space probe Stardust is launched.
- 2009 - Bush fires in Victoria, Australie, kill 173 fowk.
- 2014 - The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, soothren Roushie, begin.
- 2021 - A landslide causes a fluid in Uttarakhand, Indie, killin at least 36 fowk an leavin 170 missin.
Births
Charles Dickens
- 1102 - Empress Matilda, claimant tae the Inglis throne (d. 1167)
- 1478 - Sir Thomas More, Inglis statesman an humanist (d. 1535)
- 1693 - Anna o Roushie (d. 1740)
- 1812 - Charles Dickens, Inglis writer (d. 1870)
- 1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer (d. 1957)
- 1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrick medicinar an psychotherapist (d. 1937)
- 1885 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer (d. 1951)
- 1906 - Puyi, last Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1967)
- 1934 − Rory O'Hanlon, politeecian in the Republic o Ireland
- 1940 - Toshihide Maskawa, Japanese theoretical pheesicist
- 1946 - Pete Postlethwaite, Inglis actor (d. 2011)
- 1960 - James Spader, American actor
- 1962 - Eddie Izzard, Inglis actor, comedian an writer
- 1965 - Chris Rock, American comedian an actor
- 1978 - Ashton Kutcher, American actor
- 1978 - Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian fitbawer
- 1979 - Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni activist
Daiths
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