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4/02/1938
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Released

4/02/1948 Ceylon now Sri Lanka gains independence from British rule

4/02/1959 Barbie Doll Invented By Ruth Handler

4/02/1974 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is kidnapped in Berkeley, California

4/02/1976 In Guatemala and Honduras a 7.5 magnitude earthquake centered about 160 km northeast of Guatemala City kills more than 22,000.
 
4th February

211 The death, in York, (formerly known as Eboracum), of the Roman Emperor Septemius Severus while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He left the empire in control of his two quarrelling sons.

1911 Rolls-Royce commissioned their famous figurehead 'The Spirit of Ecstasy' by Charles Sykes. He used Lord Montague's mistress, Eleanor Thornton, as his model.

1927 Malcolm Campbell reached 174.88 mph in Bluebird on Pendine Sands, a 7 mile stretch of beach on the shores of Carmarthen Bay on the south coast of Wales to set a new land speed record.

2013 A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park in August 2012 was confirmed as that of English king Richard III.
 

1941
United Service Organization{USO} is founded
1957
The 1st electric portable typewriter goes on sale in Syracuse,NY
1973
An international inspection team goes to Vietnam to observe the progress of the Paris Truce Agreement
1980
'Studio 54' which was the most well known disco club in the world held its grand closing party.Over 2,000 people came to see a performance by Liza Minnelli,Diana Ross.The day after,owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were sent to prison for 3 yrs on tax evasion charges.The club closed for good after that
 
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5/02/1917 Congress passes the Immigration Act which required a literacy test

5/02/1922 Readers Digest First Published

5/02/1953 Sweet rationing ends in Great Britain

5/02/1974 Patty Hearst is Kidnapped by The Symbionese Liberation Army

5/02/1983 Klaus Barbie indicted for "crimes against humanity."

5/02/2002 John Walker Lindh Indicted

5/02/2008 C.I.A. admits to 'waterboarding' terror suspects
 
5th February

1788 The birth, in Bury, Lancashire, of Sir Robert Peel the first commoner to become British Prime Minister. Peel was the founder of the Metropolitan Police, first nicknamed 'Peelers', the 'Bobbies' after his name.

1918 The SS Tuscania was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland by the German U-Boat UB-77. She sank with the loss of 210 lives and was the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.

1967 A ban by the Musicians' Union, 'in the cause of decency', stopped The Rolling Stones' latest record Let's spend the night together from being performed on television.
 
1901
the loop-the loop centrifugal RR{roller coaster} was patented by Ed Prescot
1919
film studio,United Artists was founded by actors,Charlie Chaplin,Douglas Fairbanks,Mary Pickford,director DW Griffith
1922
Reader' Digest Magazine 1st issue was published
1972
U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers,luggage
 
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6/02/1926 1938 Bondi Beach Freak Waves "Black Sunday" in Australia

6/02/1952 King George V1 Dies

6/02/1954 Mercedes introduced the 300SL coupe

6/02/1958 Manchester United Football Club Disaster

6/02/1971 Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon
 
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February 6
Waitangi, New Zealand

Neve Ardern Gayford, daughter of Jacinda Ardern, watches proceedings at Beat the Retreat on a national holiday that celebrates the signing of the treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840 by Maori chiefs and the British crown, that granted the Maori people the rights of British citizens and ownership of their lands

Photograph: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images
 
6th February

1918 The Representation of the People Act passed by the British Parliament received the Royal Assent, granting the vote to women over 30. Their first opportunity to use it would come at the General Election on 14th December 1918.

1958 Seven Manchester United footballers (Busby's Babes) died when their plane crashed in thick snow on the runway at Munich airport during its 3rd attempted take off. Of the 44 passengers and crew on board, 8 United players were killed and there were15 other fatalities, including 8 journalists.

2017 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British Monarch to reach her Sapphire Jubilee.
 
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February 6
Waitangi, New Zealand

Neve Ardern Gayford, daughter of Jacinda Ardern, watches proceedings at Beat the Retreat on a national holiday that celebrates the signing of the treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840 by Maori chiefs and the British crown, that granted the Maori people the rights of British citizens and ownership of their lands

Photograph: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images
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February 6
Waitangi, New Zealand

Neve Ardern Gayford, daughter of Jacinda Ardern, watches proceedings at Beat the Retreat on a national holiday that celebrates the signing of the treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840 by Maori chiefs and the British crown, that granted the Maori people the rights of British citizens and ownership of their lands

Photograph: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images
Mellow Yellow,how many ****** times do I have to say this to you,PLEASE NO PICTURES!
 
Feb 6th
1935
The board game,Monopoly goes on sale for 1st time
1964
The Channel Tunnel linking England and France sign accord to build it.This idea was 1st suggested nearly 200 yrs ago
1983
trial of former Gestapo head,Klaus Barbee begins in France for war crimes during WWII
2018
Elon Musk's Company,Space X launches the world's powerful rocket'Falcon Henry' On board is Musk's Telsa Roadster along with dummy nicknamed 'Starman'
 
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7/02/1962 A U.S. embargo ordered by President Kennedy will go into effect on all imports from Cuba including tobacco, seafood, fruits and vegetables

7/02/1964 The Beatles arrive on their first visit to the United States

7/02/1992 The Maastricht Treaty Signed

7/02/2008 Congress has approved the $168 billion economic stimulus program

7/02/2009 Black Saturday Bushfires Australia

7/02/2010 Super Bowl XLIV breaks viewing records
 
7th February

1301 Edward of Caernarfon (later King Edward II) became the first Prince of Wales.

1863 185 British sailors were killed when HMS Orpheus was wrecked off the coast of New Zealand.

1974 The island of Grenada gained independence from the United Kingdom.

1991 Prime Minister John Major and senior Cabinet Ministers escaped unhurt during an apparent assassination attempt when the IRA fired three mortar shells at 10 Downing Street from a van parked several streets away in the centre of London.

2015 Printing blocks from a typeface called 'Doves Type' were discovered in the River Thames. The font has not been used for nearly a century as the printing type blocks, used to print letters, were thrown into the river in 1917.
 
1817
Baltimore,MD becomes 1st U.S.city to be lit by gas lamps
1940
Walt Disney's 2nd animated movie "Pinocchio' is released
1984
U.S. astronaut,Navy Capt,Bruce McCandless designed a rocket pact that allowed him to take his 1st spacewalk outside the Challenger Spacecraft. He flew 320 feet away travelling 17,500 mph,stayed in space for 1hr 1/2 before he returned to spacecraft
2005
Ellen MacArthur,of Great Britain becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world in 71 days,14 hrs,18 min
 
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8/02/1910 The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated

8/02/1922 President Warren G. Harding has a radio installed in the White House

8/02/1943 Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal

8/02/1952 Queen Elizabeth the Second Becomes Queen

8/02/1983 Shergar is stolen from a stud farm owned by the Aga Khan in County Kildare, Ireland
 
8th February

1587 After 19 years imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded for treason at Fotheringay Castle, Northamptonshire. She had been implicated in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

1836 The first London railway train ran from Spa Road to Deptford. There were fears that the 'great speed' of 16 miles an hour would break passengers' necks.

1855 The 'Devil's Footprints' mysteriously appeard in south Devon when trails of hoof-like marks appeared overnight in the snow. Estmates of the total distance covered by the prints ranged from 40 to 100 miles.

1886 A peaceful demonstration by unemployed people started in Trafalgar Square and turned into a riot with looting in Oxford Street and Pall Mall.

1965 Health Minister Kenneth Robinson announced that cigarette advertisements were to be banned from British television.
 
1918
The weekly U.S. armed forces newspaper'Stars&Stripes' debuted
1971
The world's 1st electronic stock market'Nasdaq Composite' debut with 50 companies with a value of 100.Its now has 2,5000 companies its value is 13,856
2013
a massive blizzard began in U.S. and Canada resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights left 900,000 people without power
 
9th February

1942 World War II: Soap rationing began in Britain.

1945 World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic - HMS Venturer sank U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine to submarine combat.

2015 Seven straw houses went on sale at Shirehampton, Bristol, clad in brick to fit in with the surroundings. Declared to be safe from "huffing and puffing" the prefabricated timber walls, filled with straw bales were said to be 90% cheaper in terms of heating costs than traditional brick houses.
 
1895
William G.Morgan presents his new sport'Mintonitte' at Springfield College in Massachusetts.He later renamed it'Volleyball'
1950
Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed he has a list of over 250 Communist Party sympathizers working at the U.S. State Dept.When asked for more details,he couldn't provide any names. The Senate took him so seriously,they named Sen Millard Tydings to chair a subcommittee to investigate McCarthy's allegations,nothing was found
1964
The Beatles 1st appearance on the'Ed Sullivan Show' from NYC drew 73.7 million viewers
 
10th February

1355 The St Scholastica's Day Riots began in Oxford when university students clashed with townspeople in a three day street battle, following a dispute about beer in The Swindlestock Tavern. 64 students were killed and 30 locals.

1840 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, both aged 20, were married in St James' Palace, London.

1840 The Uniform Penny Post came into force throughout the UK. Through this system, the price of a regular letter was set at 1d (one penny).

1906 Britain's first modern and largest battleship, HMS Dreadnought, was launched. It established the pattern of the turbine-powered, "all-big-gun" warship, a type hat dominated the world's navies for the next 35 years.
 
1863
The 1st fire extinguisher patent was granted to Alanson Crane of Virginia
1897
The New York Times begins using slogan'All The News That's Fit To Print'
1942
Glenn Miller awarded the 1st Gold Record ever for selling 1 million copies of 'Chattanooga Choo Choo'
1962
The United States&Russia swapped intelligence spies,Frances Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel
On May 1st 1960,Powers was flying in his CIA U2 spy plane deep in Russian airspace when he was shot down.He was convicted of espionage,sentenced to 3 yrs,plus 7 years of hard labor. Abel was serving a 30yr sentence for espionage
 
11th February

1956 Two British spies, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, who had vanished in mysterious circumstances five years previously, re-appeared in the Soviet Union.

1971 Eighty-seven countries, including the UK, the United States and the USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty. It outlawed nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in internatinal waters.

1975 Margaret Thatcher won the Conservative Party leadership and became the first woman leader of a British political party.
 


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