February 7 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for February 7
In the headlines today:

2000		Foghat lead singer/guitarist 'Lonesome' Dave Peverett, 56, dies of complications from kidney cancer in an Orlando, Florida hospital. Peverett was also a member of the English blues group Savoy Brown. (photo credit: Rhino / WEA)
1999	King Hussein of Jordan dies of cancer at age 63, and is succeeded by his son, Abdullah.
1995	Terrorist Ramzi Yousef is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he had been hiding for two years, for his part in the World Trade Center parking garage bombing.
1990	Hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil spill off the California coast near Huntington Beach, from the tanker, American Trader.
1986	Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees, ending 28 years of rule by his family.
1984	US space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert Stewart perform the first untethered space walk.
1974	Grenada wins its independence from Britain.
1964	The Beatles arrive at New York's JFK International Airport, on their first American tour.
1948		US general Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Army chief of staff, and is succeeded by general Omar Bradley. (photo credit: Times Books)
1944	The Nazis launch a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy, during WWII.
1922	Reader's Digest magazine goes on sale for the first time.
1904	Fire erupts in Baltimore, MD, burning for nearly 30 hours and destroying over 1500 buildings.
1882	The last unprotected (i.e., without padded gloves) heavyweight boxing championship fight is held in Mississippi City.