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Tuesday, February 7th 2012
Today is the 38th day of 2012. There are 327 days left in this year.
What Happened On This Day In History?
| 1904 |
A fire in Baltimore raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings. |
| 1936 |
President Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president. |
| 1943 |
The government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days, limiting each purchaser to three pairs for the remainder of the year. |
| 1944 |
During World War II, the Germans launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy. |
| 1948 |
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley. |
| 1974 |
The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain. |
| 1984 |
Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk. |
| 1986 |
Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of family rule. |
| 1990 |
The Soviet Union's Communist Party agreed to let other political parties compete for control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power. |
| 1991 |
The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president. |
| 1995 |
Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan, after two years as a fugitive. |
Born on this day
| 1812 |
Author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England. |
Died on this day
| 1998 |
It was announced that Carl Wilson, a founding member of The Beach Boys, had died in Los Angeles from complications of lung cancer; he was 51. |
| 1999 |
Jordan's King Hussein died of cancer at age 63; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Abdullah. |
| 2000 |
Magician Doug Henning died in Los Angeles at age 52. |
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