{"id":3018,"date":"2019-02-07T04:17:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T22:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:28:11","slug":"history-of-7-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-7-february\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 7 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 7 February<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1900\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Second Boer War:\u00a0British\u00a0troops fail in their\u00a0third attempt\u00a0to lift the\u00a0Siege of Ladysmith.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1900<\/strong> \u2013 A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to\u00a0the bubonic plague\u00a0in the\u00a0first plague epidemic in the continental United States.<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1904\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A\u00a0fire\u00a0begins in\u00a0Baltimore, Maryland;<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1940\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The second full-length animated\u00a0Walt Disney\u00a0film,\u00a0<i>Pinocchio<\/i>, premieres.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1943\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0World War II:\u00a0Imperial Japanese Navy\u00a0forces complete the evacuation of\u00a0Imperial Japanese Army\u00a0troops from\u00a0Guadalcanal\u00a0during\u00a0Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from\u00a0Allied\u00a0forces in the\u00a0Guadalcanal Campaign.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1944\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 World War II: In\u00a0Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied\u00a0Operation Shingle.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1951\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers\u00a0are massacred\u00a0by\u00a0South Korean forces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1962\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The United States\u00a0bans\u00a0all\u00a0Cuban\u00a0imports and exports.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1974\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Grenada\u00a0gains independence from the United Kingdom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1979\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Pluto\u00a0moves inside\u00a0Neptune&#8217;s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Space Shuttle program:\u00a0STS-41-B\u00a0Mission:\u00a0Astronauts\u00a0Bruce McCandless II\u00a0and\u00a0Robert L. Stewart\u00a0make the first untethered\u00a0space walk\u00a0using the\u00a0Manned Maneuvering Unit\u00a0(MMU).<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in\u00a0Haiti, when President\u00a0Jean-Claude Duvalier\u00a0flees the\u00a0Caribbean\u00a0nation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The\u00a0Central Committee\u00a0of the\u00a0Soviet Communist Party\u00a0agrees to give up its monopoly on power.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Haiti&#8217;s first democratically elected president,\u00a0Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0The Troubles: The\u00a0Provisional IRA\u00a0launched\u00a0a mortar attack\u00a0on\u00a010 Downing Street\u00a0in London, the headquarters of the British government.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0Maastricht Treaty\u00a0is signed, leading to the creation of the\u00a0European Union.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the\u00a01993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in\u00a0Islamabad, Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Next merges with\u00a0Apple Computer, starting the path to\u00a0Mac OS X.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Crown Prince Abdullah\u00a0becomes the King of\u00a0Jordan\u00a0on the death of his father, King\u00a0Hussein.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Bushfires in Victoria\u00a0left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia&#8217;s history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 President\u00a0Mohamed Nasheed\u00a0of the\u00a0Republic of Maldives\u00a0resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The U.S. state of\u00a0Mississippi\u00a0officially certifies the\u00a0Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of\u00a0slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong> \u2013 Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, dating back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.<sup id=\"cite_ref-7\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>2016\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 North Korea launches\u00a0Kwangmy\u014fngs\u014fng-4\u00a0into outer space violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthdays Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Darcy Dolce Neto, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lee Ok-sung, South Korean boxer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Osamu Mukai, Japanese actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Micka\u00ebl Pi\u00e9trus, French basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Sho Kamogawa, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Christian Klien, Austrian race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Federico Marchetti, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Trey Hardee, American decathlete<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Tina Majorino, American actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Albin Hodza, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ai Kago, Japanese singer and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nick Calathes, Greek basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Elia Viviani, Italian cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Isaiah Thomas, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Gianluca Lapadula, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dalilah Muhammad, American hurdler<sup id=\"cite_ref-25\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Ryan O&#8217;Reilly, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Sergi Roberto, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ksenia Stolbova, Russian figure skater<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer, and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Diego Laxalt, Uruguayan footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chris Mears, English diver, and musician<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Riley Barber, American ice hockey player<sup id=\"cite_ref-26\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1995\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Roberto Osuna, Mexican baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Pierre Gasly, French racing driver<sup id=\"cite_ref-27\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1997\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Nicol\u00f2 Barella, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 7 February 1900\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Second Boer War:\u00a0British\u00a0troops fail in their\u00a0third attempt\u00a0to lift the\u00a0Siege of Ladysmith. 1900 \u2013 A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to\u00a0the bubonic plague\u00a0in the\u00a0first plague epidemic in the continental United States. 1904\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0fire\u00a0begins in\u00a0Baltimore, Maryland;\u00a0it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. 1940\u00a0\u2013 The second full-length animated\u00a0Walt Disney\u00a0film,\u00a0Pinocchio, premieres. 1943\u00a0\u2013\u00a0World 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