Historical Events In February - 07

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

1990  Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators on February - 07.  

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

1990  USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties on February - 07.  

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  On February - 07 european Community ministers formally sign the Maastricht Treaty, paving the way for the creation of the European Union.  

1992  Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial on this day in history.  

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

1992  Jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87 on February - 07.  

1993  Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed on February - 07.  

1993  On February - 07 w Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82  

1994  On this day in history howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge  

1994  On this day in history jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant  

1994  On February - 07 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  George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89 on February - 07.  

1997  US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21 on February - 07.  

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

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

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

2007  On February - 07 sharon Osbourne announces that Ozzfest 2007 is free.  

2009  On February - 07 bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in e wor natural disaer in Auralia's hiory.  

2013  Eugène Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People is vandalized at the Louvre-Lens museum on this day in history.  

2014  German treasurer under Angela Merkel, Helmut Linssen, resigns after a scandal involving offshore banking accounts in the Bahamas and Panama on this day in history.  

2018  Armed groups release 300 child soldiers from Yambio, South Sudan according to UN on February - 07.  

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

2018  Missing Nigerian painting masterpiece of Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi by Ben Enwonwu announced rediscovered in London on February - 07.  

2018  On February - 07 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 on February - 07.  

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

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1102  On this day in history birth of empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)  

1478  Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia) was born on February - 07.  

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 February - 07.  

1612  On February - 07 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  On this day in history birth of maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange  

0590  Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague on February - 07.  

0999  Death of Boleslaus II of Bohemia on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79  

1609  On February - 07 ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies  

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