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Events (February 5th)

• 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.
• 1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
• 1631 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
• 1778 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• 1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
• 1818 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 1846 - The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States.
• 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities.
• 1885 - King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
• 1917 - The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
• 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States.
• 1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
• 1936 - Charlie Chaplin releases the last movie of the silent film era, Modern Times.
• 1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1945 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
• 1946 - The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
• 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
• 1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
• 1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
• 1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.
• 1971 - Project Apollo: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard LM, Antares land on the Moon at Fra Mauro formation.
• 1972 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
• 1974 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.
• 1988 - Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
• 1988 - Comic Relief holds the first "Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.
• 1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
• 2004 - Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
• 2004 - Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

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Events (February 6th)

• 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and Juba at Thapsus.
• 337 - Julius I is elected pope.
• 1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
• 1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
• 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1806 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - Action of 6 February 1806.
• 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
• 1817 - The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
• 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
• 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
• 1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
• 1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
• 1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry.
• 1899 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
• 1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
• 1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
• 1922 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
• 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
• 1934 - February 6, 1934 political crisis in France. The far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, an attempted coup against the Third Republic.
• 1936 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
• 1951 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
• 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
• 1958 - Bobby Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with Manchester United F.C..
• 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
• 1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
• 1968 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - X Olympic Winter Games open in Grenoble, France.
• 1971 - Project Apollo: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepherd becomes the first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
• 1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
• 1985 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer.
• 1992 - The Saami people of Scandinavia have an official day celebrating their existence.
• 1996 - A Turkish Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Dominican Republic killing 189.
• 1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
• 2001 - Don Felder is fired from the Eagles
• 2004 - In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.
• 2005 - Jerrick De Leon, born 13 weeks premature, becomes the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an arterial switch.
• 2006 - The Conservative Party of Canada becomes a minority government in Canada's Parliament, replacing the Liberals after 13 years in power. Stephen Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada.

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Events (February 7)

• 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1074 - Battle of Montesarchio wherein the prince of Benevento, Pandulf IV, is killed battling the encroaching Normans.
• 1301 - Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
• 1550 - Julius III becomes Pope.
• 1795 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
• 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau - Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
• 1812 - The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
• 1842 - Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
• 1856 - The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot. [1]
• 1863 - HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
• 1882 - The last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi.
• 1894 - The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
• 1898 - Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
• 1904 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• 1914 - Charlie Chaplin first appears as "The Tramp", as his first film Kid Auto Races at Venice is released at Keystone Studios.
• 1942 - In Drakulici, Banja Luka, Croatian Nazis kill 2,300 Serbian civilians, among them 551 children.
• 1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy German forces launch a counteroffensive.
• 1944 - World War II: American Aircraft carrier strike on Truk.
• 1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
• 1962 - The United States Government bans all Cuban imports and exports.
• 1964 - The Beatles arrive on their first visit to the United States.
• 1967 - A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people.
• 1969 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.
• 1971 - Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.
• 1974 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1976 - Future Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs scores six goals and records four assists in an 11-4 victory over the Boston Bruins, setting a NHL record with 10 points in one game.
• 1977 - Soyuz programme: Soyuz 24 launched.
• 1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
• 1979 - The final session of Iranian National Consultative Assembly was held.
• 1984 - Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
• 1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.
• 1986 - Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• 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.
• 1991 - The IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
• 1992 - The European Union was formed.
• 1995 - Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
• 1998 - The Winter Olympics open in Nagano, Japan.
• 1999 - Crown Prince Abdullah became the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
• 2000 - Bahria University is established through the Presidential Ordinance No. V of 2000 of Government of Pakistan.

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Events (February 8th)

• 421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• 1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed.
• 1622 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
• 1692 - A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony declares that three teenage girls are under domination of Satan, leading to the Salem witch trials.
• 1693 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
• 1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
• 1807 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
• 1817 - Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
• 1837 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
• 1849 - New Roman Republic established.
• 1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
• 1867 - The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
• 1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• 1887 - The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• 1900 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
• 1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
• 1915 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• 1918 - The Stars and Stripes newspaper publishes for the first time.
• 1922 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
• 1924 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
• 1936 - Jay Berwanger becomes the first person to be selected by a National Football League draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Army encircles the troops of Paulus. The Germans surrender.
• 1943 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
• 1949 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary sentenced for treason.
• 1955 - The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
• 1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
• 1962 - Charonne massacre. 9 trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
• 1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
• 1968 - American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the deaths of three college students.
• 1969 - The last weekly issue of the Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands.
• 1971 - The Nasdaq stock market index debuts.
• 1974 - After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab return to Earth.
• 1974 - Military coup in Upper Volta.
• 1978 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
• 1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
• 1986 - 1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world.
• 1989 - An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal, killing 144.
• 1991 - Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract.
• 1993 - General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
• 1996 - The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
• 1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
• 1998 - First female ice hockey game in Olympic history: Finland beats Sweden 6-0.
• 2005 - Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.
• 2006 - Palestinians attack Temporary International Presence in Hebron offices in Hebron; International observers end decade-long presence

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Events (February 9th)

• 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
• 1621 - Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
• 1788 - The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
• 1822 - Haiti invades the Dominican Republic.
• 1825 - After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau was established.
• 1885 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
• 1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
• 1895 - William G. Morgan invents volleyball.
• 1900 - Davis Cup competition is established.
• 1904 - Battle of Port Arthur
• 1920 - By the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
• 1922 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1934 - The Balkan Entente is formed.
• 1942 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
• 1942 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.
• 1943 - World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
• 1950 - Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States State Department of being filled with Communists.
• 1960 - Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1964 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - The IX Olympic Winter Games close in Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
• 1966 - The NHL announces its intended expansion that will double its size.
• 1969 - First test flight of the Boeing 747.
• 1971 - The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
• 1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
• 1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
• 1975 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
• 1986 - Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century.
• 1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
• 1994 - Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
• 1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
• 2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.