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Happened this day (07 February) * Source Wikipedia

- Pre-1600
- 49 BC The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.
- 1325 Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1558 French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 1601–1900
- 1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1610 Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following night.
- 1708 – Battle of Zlatoust: Battle between Bashkir and Tatar rebels and the government troops of the Tsardom of Russia. It is one of the events of the Bashkir rebellion of 1704–1711.
- 1708 – Bashkir rebels besiege Yelabuga.
- 1738 A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
- 1782 The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
- 1835 HMS ;Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1867 The Kingstree jail fire kills 22 freedmen in Reconstruction-era South Carolina.
- 1894 Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1901–present
- 1904 The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
- 1919 Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- 1920 The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1922 Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.[citation needed]
- 1927 The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.
- 1928 A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
- 1931 Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
- 1935 Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
- 1940 Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 1948 Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
- 1950 In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
- 1954 Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1955 Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
- 1959 The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 1968 Surveyor program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A.
- 1972 Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
- 1973 In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, before being shot to death by police officers.
- 1979 Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- 1984 Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 1985 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
- 1989 Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.
- 1991 Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
- 1993 The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.
- 1993 Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
- 1994 A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
- 1999 The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
- 2012 A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
- 2015 Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, executing twelve people and wounding eleven others.
- 2015 A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
- 2020 The 6.4Mw  2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
- 2023 The longest U.S. House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 – February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
- 2025 A series of wildfires ravage the Greater Los Angeles area, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed.