7th February anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1883
  • United States
  • "Birth of Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer ."
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "Birth of Buster Crabbe, American Olympic Gold medal-winning swimmer. (He said he was born in 1910)"
• event
  • 1301
  • Great Britain
  • Son of Edward I created first Prince of Wales
  • 1964
  • United States
  • The Beatles arrive on their first visit to the United States
  • 1965
  • Viet Nam
  • First US raids against North Vietnam
  • 1984
  • United States
  • American space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless and Robert L. Stewart carried out the first untethered spacewalk
  • 2005
  • Great Britain
  • Ellen Macarthur sails solo around the world
• Death
  • 1959
  • South Africa
  • "Death of Daniel Malan, South African Prime Minister who formed the first exclusively Afrikaner government"
  • 1979
  • Germany
  • "Death of Josef Mengele, German physician at Auschwitz, Nazi war criminal"
  • 1999
  • Jordan
  • Death of King Hussein of Jordan