Today in History-February2, 2007?

Answer 1

If you actually mean today, February 7th...

On this day...
0590 Pelagius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1301 Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales
1522 Treaty of Brussels Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches
1550 Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
1569 King Philip II forms inquistion in South America
1613 Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia
1639 Académie Française begins the Dictionary of the French Language
1653 Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendent of Finance of France
1668 Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"
1792 Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
1792 D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto" premieres in Vienna
1795 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
1795 Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
1812 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid MO; this is the last of Midwest quakes (see 12/16)
1812 Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
1818 1st successful US educational magazine "Academician" begins (New York NY)
1827 Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (New York NY)
1831 Belgium adopts its Constitution
1836 "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens
1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
1862 Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC
1864 Federal troops occupy Jacksonville FL
1872 Alcorn A & M College opens
1876 President Grant's private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
1877 1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (New York NY)
1881 Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal Boers beat superior British forces
1882 Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Mississippi
1883 Lieutenant-Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
1889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
1891 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
1900 Labour Party forms in England
1900 British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal
1901 Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1903 VVV '03 Soccer team forms in Venlo
1904 Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
1905 Dominican Republic signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
1905 Oklahoma admitted to statehood
1908 Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
1910 Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler" premieres in Paris
1912 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40))
1914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco
1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
1915 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
1915 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes German armies surrounded a Russian army
1922 John Willard's "Cat & the Canary" premieres in New York NY
1924 Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR
1928 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
1931 US opera, "Peter Ibbetson", by Deems Taylor premieres at Metropolitan Opera NYC
1933 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
1933 Social-Democrat meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead
1934 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo MS
1935 Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags
1936 A flag is authorized for the Vice President
1936 Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer
1940 British railroads nationalized
1940 Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio", premieres (New York NY)
1941 Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey Orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me"
1942 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
1943 Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
1944 Germans launch counter-offensive at Anzio Italy
1944 Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records
1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
1945 President Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
1945 US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
1946 Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill
1947 Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
1948 Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
1948 "Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 performances
1949 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (New York Yankees)
1950 Georges Bidault forms French government
1950 Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1950 US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime
1956 Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled
1958 1st showing of DAF 600 auto
1958 Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
1958 Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
1959 Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
1959 "Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
1959 Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
1959 Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
1960 Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1961 Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
1962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
1962 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
1964 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
1964 Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
1964 Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1964 Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres
1965 George Harrison of the Beatles, has his tonsils removed
1965 US begins regular bombing & strafing of North Vietnam
1965 Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curaçao
1965 WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Arthur Miller's "Price" premieres in New York NY
1968 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls
1968 WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 "This Is Tom Jones" debuts on ABC TV
1969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah FL)
1970 LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 points in losing cause
1970 "Hollywood Palace" last airs on ABC TV
1970 "Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies
1970 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1970 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1971 Women win the right to vote in Switzerland
1971 Swiss men accept female suffrage
1973 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1973 Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
1974 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1974 Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters
1975 NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
1976 Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game
1976 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn NY)
1976 World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
1976 Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9
1977 Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
1978 Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
1979 Neptune becomes farthest planet from the sun in our solar system (will remain that way for 20 years)
1979 Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 points (6 goals)
1979 "Supertrain", TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC
1979 Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumédienne in Algeria
1979 Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for West Indies vs India at Kanpur
1979 Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1982 Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica
1983 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
1984 Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk (US)
1984 David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time
1984 Michael Jackson awarded a 4-foot-high platinum disc by CBS
1985 Marshall University's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5¼"
1985 New York Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
1985 "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York NY
1986 Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti
1986 Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
1986 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1987 Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US
1987 Madonna's "Open Your Heart" single goes #1
1987 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93
1987 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1988 Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
1988 38th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 138-133 at Chicago
1988 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1988 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 15-6
1989 Tennis superstar Björn Börg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan
1989 40th NHL All-Star Game Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton
1990 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
1990 Lisa Leslie of Morningside High School in Inglewood CA scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance High School decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24
1990 USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1991 Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame
1991 Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president
1992 Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial
1992 Shannon Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA
1993 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 23-20
1993 Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed
1993 Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
1994 21st American Music Award Whitney Houston wins
1994 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
1994 Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant
1995 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch & Mike Gatting
1997 US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21
1998 18th Winter Olympics games open at Nagano Japan
1998 NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7

Answer 2

Today is the 7th of February 2007!

Answer 3

On February second, 1956, Atlantic Records signed The Coasters.
In 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper made what ended up being their last public appearances at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. They died in a plane crash the next day.

In 1973, the N-B-C T-V rock show "Midnight Special" made its debut, with Helen Reddy as the hostess.

In 1974, Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer sustained minor cuts when a rigged piano exploded prematurely during a concert in San Francisco.

In 1979, former Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose at age 21. The death was ruled accidental.

In 1990, songwriter Sammy Cahn got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was placed next to one honoring Frank Sinatra, who recorded several of Cahn's songs.

In 1992, Miss America Pageant host Bert Parks died at a California hospital.

In 1993, a judge in New York dropped gun charges against singer Harry Connick Junior. He had been arrested when he tried to bring a pistol on board a flight at Kennedy Airport.

Also in 1993, Willie Nelson and the Internal Revenue Service reached a settlement on his estimated 17 (M) million-dollar tax debt.

In 1996, entertainer Gene Kelly died of complications from strokes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83.

Today's birthdays: Actress Elaine Stritch is 82. Actor Robert Mandan ("Soap," "Three's A Crowd") is 75. Comedian Tom Smothers is 70. Singer Graham Nash is 65. Actor Bo Hopkins is 65. Singer Howard Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers is 61. Actress Farrah Fawcett is 60. Actor Brent Spiner ("Star Trek: The Next Generation") is 58. Bassist Ross Valory of Journey is 58. Model Christie Brinkley is 53. Actor Michael Talbott ("Miami Vice") is 52. Actress Kim Zimmer ("Guiding Light") is 52. Bassist Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots is 41. Drummer Ben Mize of Counting Crows is 36. Rapper T-Mo (Goodie Mob) is 35. Actress Lori Beth Denberg is 31. Singer Shakira is 30.

Answer 4

Actually, today is February 7th, 2007.

Answer 5

'bout a week late cher. But, since I'm here I'll give you one for each. 2/7-Collapse of the USSR.

2/2-National League is formed (baseball)

Answer 6

yeah lip gloss, and the only approximately locking and droping some thing...yet via some distance comparable lady..god I hate R.Kelly songs hes just about attempting to sing on a similar time as talking its stressful the two communicate or sing damnit haha....

Answer 7

Uhm... todays Feb. 7th not the 2nd...
LOL