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  On this day in history karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators   

1990  The Soviet Communist Party leadership agrees to surrender its 70-year monopoly on power, paving the way for a multi-party democracy on this day in history.   

1990  On February - 07 uSSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties   

1990  On February - 07 dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies   

1991  On this day in history jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's first elected president   

1991  Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75 on February - 07.   

1992  On February - 07 european Community ministers formally sign the Maastricht Treaty, paving the way for the creation of the European Union.   

1992  On February - 07 mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial   

1992  Shannon Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA on February - 07.   

1992  On this day in history jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87   

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  Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 bombing on February - 07.   

1995  On February - 07 helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70   

1996  George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1997  On February - 07 uS & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21   

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

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

2006  An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast on this day in history.   

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 February - 07.   

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 this day in history.   

2018  On this day in history "The Los Angeles Times" is bought by LA doctor Patrick Soon-Shiong from Tronc for $500 million   

2018  On this day in history missing Nigerian painting masterpiece of Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi by Ben Enwonwu announced rediscovered in London   

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 this day in history.   

2018  On this day in history 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  Empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169) was born on February - 07.   

1478  On February - 07 birth of thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)   

1478  Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1612  Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men) was born on February - 07.   

1655  Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria) was born on this day in history.   

1688  Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange was born on this day in history.   

0590  On this day in history pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague   

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

1045  On February - 07 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  On this day in history death of bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)   

1593  Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79 on February - 07.   

1609  Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies on February - 07.   

1626  On this day in history death of william V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)