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  • Southern Italian peninsula and Sicily
    Friday Feb 7, 1783
    1783 Calabrian earthquakes

    Severe damage extended 15 km along the front of the Serre Mountains

    Southern Italian peninsula and Sicily
    Friday Feb 7, 1783

    This event occurred at about midday 40 km NE of the first mainshock on the 5th. Severe damage extended 15 km along the front of the Serre Mountains, leveling all the villages between Acquaro and Soriano Calabro. The earthquake is thought to have involved the rupturing of the southern segment of the Serre fault that bounds the Mesima Basin.




  • Preussisch Eylau, East Prussia (Present Day Bagrationovsk, Russia)
    Saturday Feb 7, 1807
    Napoleon

    Battle of Eylau

    Preussisch Eylau, East Prussia (Present Day Bagrationovsk, Russia)
    Saturday Feb 7, 1807

    Napoleon marched against the advancing Russian armies through Poland and was involved in the bloody stalemate at the Battle of Eylau in February 1807.




  • Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S.
    Friday Feb 7, 1919
    Desmond Doss: Hacksaw Ridge

    Birth

    Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S.
    Friday Feb 7, 1919

    Desmond Doss was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, to William Thomas Doss (1893–1989), a carpenter, and Bertha Edward Doss (née Oliver) (1899–1983), a homemaker and shoe factory worker. He grew up in the Fairview Heights area of Lynchburg, Virginia, alongside his older sister Audrey and younger brother Harold.




  • Arganda del Rey, Madrid, Spain
    Monday Feb 7, 1927
    Spanish Civil War

    Battle of Jarama

    Arganda del Rey, Madrid, Spain
    Monday Feb 7, 1927

    The consolidation of various militias into the Republican Army had started in December 1936. The main Nationalist advance to cross the Jarama and cut the supply to Madrid by the Valencia road, termed the Battle of Jarama, led to heavy casualties (6,000–20,000) on both sides. The operation's main objective was not met, though Nationalists gained a modest amount of territory.




  • United Kingdom
    Sunday Feb 7, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill arrived home

    United Kingdom
    Sunday Feb 7, 1943

    From Morocco, Churchill went to Cairo, Adana, Cyprus, Cairo again, and Algiers for various purposes. Churchill arrived home on 7 February having been out for the country for nearly a month.




  • Italy
    Wednesday Feb 7, 1945
    08:38:00 PM
    Benito Mussolini

    The Porzûs massacre

    Italy
    Wednesday Feb 7, 1945
    08:38:00 PM

    The Porzûs massacre was an intra-partisan massacre of the Italian resistance during late World War II, on 7 February 1945.




  • France
    Wednesday Feb 7, 1962
    Algerian War

    The OAS attempted to assassinate the Culture Minister André Malraux

    France
    Wednesday Feb 7, 1962

    On 7 February 1962, the OAS attempted to assassinate the Culture Minister André Malraux by setting off a bomb in his apartment building that failed to kill its intended target, but did leave a four-year girl living in the adjoining apartment blinded by the shrapnel.


  • John F. Kennedy Airport, New York, U.S.
    Friday Feb 7, 1964
    The Beatles

    The First visit to United States

    John F. Kennedy Airport, New York, U.S.
    Friday Feb 7, 1964

    On 7 February 1964, the Beatles left the United Kingdom with an estimated 4,000 fans gathered at Heathrow, waving and screaming as the aircraft took off. Upon landing at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, an uproarious crowd estimated at 3,000 greeted them.


  • Pleiku, South Vietnam
    Sunday Feb 7, 1965
    Vietnam War

    Attack on a U.S. Army base

    Pleiku, South Vietnam
    Sunday Feb 7, 1965

    The National Security Council recommended a three-stage escalation of the bombing of North Vietnam. Following an attack on a U.S. Army base in Pleiku on 7 February 1965, a series of air strikes was initiated.


  • Tasmania, Australia
    Tuesday Feb 7, 1967
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1967 Tasmanian Fires

    Tasmania, Australia
    Tuesday Feb 7, 1967

    The 1967 Tasmanian fires were an Australian natural disaster which occurred on 7 February 1967, an event which came to be known as the Black Tuesday bushfires. They were the most deadly bushfires that Tasmania has ever experienced, leaving 62 people dead, 900 injured and over seven thousand homeless.


  • Russia
    Wednesday Feb 7, 1990
    Dissolution of the Soviet Union

    Monopoly on political power

    Russia
    Wednesday Feb 7, 1990

    On February 7, 1990, the Central Committee of the CPSU accepted Gorbachev's recommendation that the party give up its monopoly on political power.


  • Victoria, Australia
    Saturday Feb 7, 2009
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    Black Saturday Bushfires

    Victoria, Australia
    Saturday Feb 7, 2009

    The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009 and were among Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters. The fires occurred during extreme bushfire weather conditions and resulted in Australia's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire; there were 173 direct identified fatalities, The figure was later increased to 180 fatalities, after several people had succumbed to their injuries. Many were left homeless as a result.


  • Greenwich Village, Manhattan, U.S.
    Tuesday Feb 7, 2017
    Kroger

    Kroger announced that had purchased Murray's Cheese

    Greenwich Village, Manhattan, U.S.
    Tuesday Feb 7, 2017

    On February 7, 2017, it was announced that Kroger Co. had purchased Murray's Cheese.


  • Singapore
    Friday Feb 7, 2020
    Covid-19 Pandemic: 2020 Coronavirus outbreak

    Singapore announcement

    Singapore
    Friday Feb 7, 2020

    On 7 February 2020, Singapore's Ministry of Health announced 3 new cases where none are linked to the existing cases or have been in China recently.


  • Milan, Italy
    Sunday Feb 7, 2021
    Zlatan Ibrahimović

    500 and 501 total club career goals

    Milan, Italy
    Sunday Feb 7, 2021

    Ibrahimović scored another brace in a 4–0 win over Crotone on 7 February, reaching the milestone of 500 and 501 total club career goals in the process.


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