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02-07-2007, 06:00 AM
jseal
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February 7th
1812
~
Birthday of
Charles Dickens
, Novelist.
1834
~
Birthday of
Dmitri Mendeleev
, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements.
1883
~
Birthday of Eubie Blake, Musician, Composer.
1885
~
Birthday of Sinclair Lewis, Author.
1905
~
The
Great Baltimore Fire
destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1964
~
The
Beatles arrived in New York
for their first American tour, touching off rock 'n' roll's “British invasion”.
1971
~
Women became entitled to vote in Switzerland.
1984
~
Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart went on
the first untethered spacewalk
.
1990
~
The
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
agreed to let other political parties compete for control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power.
1992
~
The
European Union
was formed.
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