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− | '''February 7''' | + | '''February 7''' in history: |
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| + | * 1861, the general council of the Choctaw Indian nation adopted a resolution declaring allegiance with the South "in the event a permanent dissolution of the American Union takes place." |
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| + | * 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings |
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| + | * 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president |
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| + | * 1943, the government announced the start of shoe rationing, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the remainder of the year |
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| + | * 1948, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff; he was succeeded by General Omar Bradley |
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| + | * 1964, The Beatles began their first American tour as they arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport |
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| + | * 1983, Elizabeth H. Dole was sworn in as the first female secretary of transportation by the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor |
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| + | * 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless the Second and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk |
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| + | * 2003, Tom Christerson, 71, the longest-living recipient of a fully |
| + | self-contained artificial heart, died at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, after 512 days on the AbioCor |
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| + | [[Category:February]] [[Category:Days of the Year]] |