February 07
1795
The 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
1904
A disastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore.
1926
Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month.
1964
The Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time.
1971
Women in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage.
1974
The island of Grenada won its independence from Britain
1986
President Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier fled Haiti.
1990
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union allowed other parties to compete for power.
1991
Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as first democratically-elected president of Haiti.
Birthdays
Frederick Douglass
1817–1895, American Abolitionist.
Sir Thomas More
statesman (1478)
John Deere
industrialist and manufacturer (1804)
Charles Dickens
novelist (1812)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
author (1867)
Eubie Blake
pianist and composer (1883)
Sinclair Lewis
novelist (1885)
An Wang
computer entrepreneur (1920)
James Spader
actor (1960)
Garth Brooks
country singer (1962)
Chris Rock
comedian (1966)
Ashton Kutcher
actor (1978)