On this day in History - Feb.07

• 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 780 - Nicetas, dies, Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 1301 - Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first Prince of Wales.
• 1478 - Sir Thomas More, was born, statesman and humanist, author (d. 1535).
• 1502 - Hugo Boncompagni, nacimiento de, más tarde Papa Gregorio XIII.
• 1550 - Julius III becomes Pope.
• 1569 - Francis Drake, dies, corsario inglés.
• 1569 - Se establece la Inquisición en América.
• 1602 - El pirata británico William Parker toma al asalto la ciudad de San Felipe de Portobelo (Panamá).
• 1613 - Mikhail Romanov becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1639 - La Academie Française publica el primer diccionario de la lengua francesa.
• 1795 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
• 1804 - Nace John Deere, pionero en la creación de productos manufacturados para el uso de la agricultura.
• 1807 - Napoléon's French Empire began fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at the Battle of Eylau in Eylau, Poland.
• 1812 - The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes .
• 1812 - Lord Byron pronuncia su famoso discurso en la Cámara de los Lores.New Madrid, Missouri.
• 1812 - Charles Dickens, was born, novelist (d. 1870) .
• 1822 - Joaquín Gaztambide, nacimiento de, compositor español.
• 1823 - Ann Radcliffe, dies, novelist (b. 1764) .
• 1825 - Nasceu o pintor português Francisco Metrass.
• 1826 - El Congreso argentino nombra primer presidente de la República a Bernardino Rivadavia.
• 1833 - Ricardo Palma, nacimiento de, escritor peruano.
• 1834 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, was born, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements (d. 1907).
• 1834 - Nace en Buenos Aires el poeta, periodista, político y militar Estanislao del Campo.
• 1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden dies, (b. 1778) .
• 1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, was born, author (d. 1957).
• 1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, dies, writer (b. 1814) .
• 1848 - Doroteo Vasconcelos toma posesión de la Presidencia de El Salvador.
• 1870 - Nace Alfred Adler, psiquiatra austríaco.
• 1878 - Pope Pius IX dies, (b. 1792) .
• 1882 - In Mississippi City, the last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place.
• 1883 - Eubie Blake, was born, musician, composer (d. 1983).
• 1885 - Sinclair Harry Lewis, was born, author, Nobel Prize 1930 (d. 1951).
• 1897 - Benito Pérez Galdós ingresa en la Real Academia Española.
• 1898 - Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
• 1900 - The British Labour Party is formed.
• 1904 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• 1904 - Ernst Ginsberg, was born, actor and film director (d. 1964) .
• 1905 - Paul Nizan, was born, author (d. 1940) .
• 1908 - Buster Crabbe, was born, Olympic Games swimming gold medalist, actor (d. 1983) .
• 1909 - Portinari, nascimento de, pintor brasileiro.
• 1909 - Dom Helder Pessoa Câmara, morte de, prócer religioso católico brasileiro.
• 1910 - Max Bense, was born, philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1914 - Ramón Mercader, was born, assassin of Leon Trotsky (d. 1978).
• 1917 - Se funda el Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima, de Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos.
• 1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, dies, Russian military commander (b. 1874) .
• 1920 - An Wang, computer was born, pioneer (d. 1990) .
• 1922 - Hattie Jacques, was born, actress (d. 1980) .
• 1926 - Konstantin Feoktistov, was born, cosmonaut .
• 1927 - Juliette Greco, was born, singer and actor .
• 1932 - Gay Talese, was born, author .
• 1937 - Elihu Root, morre, político estadounidense, premio Nobel de la Paz en 1912.
• 1938 - Harvey Firestone, dies, manufacturer (b. 1868).
• 1940 - Pinocchio, an Academy Award-winning animated feature based on the story Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, was first released by Walt Disney Productions.
• 1943 - Gareth Hunt was born actor .
• 1943 - World War II: In the United States it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in two days.
• 1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy Nazi forces launch a counteroffensive.
• 1945 - Pete Postlethwaite, was born, actor .
• 1947 - Se establece la base chilena Arturo Prat en la Antártida.
• 1953 - Lige Curry, was born, musician (P Funk).
• 1953 - Dan Quisenberry, was born, baseball pitcher (d. 1998) .
• 1954 - Dieter Bohlen was born , German Composer and Performer (Modern Talking) .
• 1955 - Mario Coutinho was born, Brazilian Physician.
• 1958 - nace Manuel Mijares, cantante mexicano.
• 1960 - James Spader, was born, actor (Pretty in Pink, Stargate) .
• 1962 - Garth Brooks, was born, country music star .
• 1962 - Eddie Izzard, was born, actor, comic.
• 1962 - The United States Government bans all US-related Cuban imports and exports.
• 1964 - The Beatles arrived on their first visit to the United States.
• 1964 - Cassius Clay se convierte al islamismo.
• 1967 - Chris Rock, was born, comedian, actor .
• 1968 - Peter Bondra, was born, hockey player.
• 1971 - Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.
• 1974 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1974 - Steve Nash, was born, Canadian NBA star.
• 1977 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24.1978 - Ashton Kutcher, was born, actor.
• 1979 - Josef Mengele, dies, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911) .
• 1980 - Secondo Campini, dies, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904) .
• 1984 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
• 1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.
• 1985 - Matt Monro, dies, singer (b. 1932) .
• 1986 - 28 years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• 1989 - Hirohito, emperador de Japón.
• 1990 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
• 1991 - Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
• 1992 - The European Union is formed - Maastricht Treaty.
• 1993 - Lillian Gish, dies, actress (b. 1893) .
• 1994 - Stephen Milligan, British journalist and Conservative MP (b. 1948), died of autoerotic asphyxiation .
• 1996 - Ciento ochenta y nueve personas mueren a consecuencia de un accidente aéreo frente a las costas de la República Dominicana.
• 1998 - The 1998 Winter Olympic Games open in Nagano, Japan.
• 1998 - Lawrence Sanders, dies, author .
• 1999 - King Hussein of Jordan dies, (b. 1935) .
• 1999 - Bobby Troup, dies, musician, actor .
• 1999 - Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the ruler of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
• 1999 - Rey Hussein de Jordania.
• 2000 - Doug Henning, dies, magician (b. 1947) .
• 2000 - Big Pun, dies, singer (b. 1971) .
• 2001- Dale Evans, dies, actress, singer .
• 2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, dies, author, aviator (b. 1906) .
• 2003 - Augusto Monterroso, dies, author .
• 2003 - John Reading, dies, mayor of Oakland, California.
• 2003 - Last contact to Pioneer 10 was replied.
• 2003 - Augusto Monterroso dies. Guatemalian writer.
• 2004 - John Hench, dies, Artistic designer for Walt Disney .
• 2004 - Rebeca Martinez, girl born with two heads, died of complications from surgery to remove extra head (b. 2003) .