Historical Events In February - 07

1990  On February - 07 hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil spill off the California coast near Huntington Beach, from the tanker, American Trader.   

1990  On this day in history karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators   

1990  The Soviet Communist Party leadership agrees to surrender its 70-year monopoly on power, paving the way for a multi-party democracy on February - 07.   

1990  USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties on this day in history.   

1990  On this day in history dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies   

1991  On February - 07 jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's first elected president   

1991  On this day in history dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75   

1992  European Community ministers formally sign the Maastricht Treaty, paving the way for the creation of the European Union on this day in history.   

1992  On this day in history mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial   

1992  Shannon Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA on this day in history.   

1992  On this day in history jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87   

1993  On February - 07 pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed   

1993  On this day in history w Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82   

1994  Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge on February - 07.   

1994  On February - 07 jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant   

1994  On this day in history maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74   

1995  Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch & Mike Gatting on February - 07.   

1995  On this day in history terrorist Ramzi Yousef is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he had been hiding for two years, for his part in the World Trade Center bombing.   

1995  On this day in history helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70   

1996  On this day in history george Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89   

1997  On this day in history uS & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21   

1998  On February - 07 18th Winter Olympics games open at Nagano Japan   

1999  On this day in history king Hussein of Jordan dies of cancer at age 63, and is succeeded by his son, Abdullah.   

2006  An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast on February - 07.   

2007  Sharon Osbourne announces that Ozzfest 2007 is free on this day in history.   

2009  On this day in history bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in e wor natural disaer in Auralia's hiory.   

2013  On February - 07 eugène Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People is vandalized at the Louvre-Lens museum   

2014  On February - 07 german treasurer under Angela Merkel, Helmut Linssen, resigns after a scandal involving offshore banking accounts in the Bahamas and Panama   

2018  On this day in history armed groups release 300 child soldiers from Yambio, South Sudan according to UN   

2018  On February - 07 "The Los Angeles Times" is bought by LA doctor Patrick Soon-Shiong from Tronc for $500 million   

2018  Missing Nigerian painting masterpiece of Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi by Ben Enwonwu announced rediscovered in London on this day in history.   

2018  DNA analysis of Chedder Man, UK's oldest complete skeleton shows he had dark skin and blue eyes on February - 07.   

2018  On this day in history white House aide Rob Porter resigns in wake of physical abuse allegations by ex-wives   

2018  All citrus fruit can be traced to the southeast foothills of the Himalayas, according to DNA study published in "Nature" on February - 07.   

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1102  Empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169) was born on February - 07.   

1478  On February - 07 birth of thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)   

1478  On this day in history birth of sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)   

1556  On this day in history birth of maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren   

1589  Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician was born on this day in history.   

1612  On this day in history birth of thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)   

1655  Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria) was born on this day in history.   

1688  Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange was born on February - 07.   

0590  On this day in history pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague   

0999  On this day in history death of boleslaus II of Bohemia   

1045  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)   

1317  On this day in history death of robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)   

1560  Death of Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493) on this day in history.   

1593  Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1609  On this day in history ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies   

1626  Death of William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548) on this day in history.