February 7

MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Thursday March 28, 2024
Jump to navigationJump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.


<embed>

Thursday, February 7, 2013

<img src="670934564-missingImage.gif" alt="" />Image Not Available
50,000+ searches

<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0209-mayor-backs-tax-20130209,0,486313.story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Villaraigosa backs half-cent hike in sales tax</a>Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday backed the half-cent sales tax hike on the March 5 ballot, which is being pushed as a way to shield the Po

</embed> MyWikiBiz February 7 in history:


  • 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."
  • 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings
  • 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president
  • 1943, the government announced the start of shoe rationing, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the remainder of the year
  • 1948, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff; he was succeeded by General Omar Bradley
  • 1964, The Beatles began their first American tour as they arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport
  • 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
  • 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless the Second and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk
  • 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