|
What happened in history on this day: February 7?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On February 7 in ...
- 1981 - Steve Wozniak's private plane crashes during take-off, near the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. The accident leaves him with a loss of short-term memory, lasting for over a month.
- 1984 - Victor Technologies files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 1997 - Microsoft announces it is ceasing development of Windows NT for systems using PowerPC processors.
- 1997 - In San Francisco, California, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference is held. Intel previews a next-generation Pentium processor (code-named Deschutes) running at 433 MHz.
- 1997 - Apple Computer completes its acquisition of Next Software, for a total cost of US$430 million.
- 2000 - In Canada, Corel annouces the intent to purchase Inprise for US$1.1 billion in stock.
- 2000 - At the International Solid State Circuits Conference, Advanced Micro Devices demonstrates an Athlon processor operating at 1.1 GHz. Intel demonstrates a prototype 1 GHz Pentium III processor.
- 1927 - Film Booking Offices releases the Alice Comedy film Alice at the Carnival to theaters.
- 1936 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Who Killed Cock Robin? for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1936 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Three Orphan Kittens for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1937 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Country Cousin for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1938 - The first daily "Donald Duck" comic strip is published, written by Bob Karp, drawn by Al Taliaferro.
- 1940 - RKO Radio Pictures world premieres Disney's second animated feature film, Pinocchio, at the Central Theatre in New York. The film cost US$2.6 million to make. The film is based on the story by Carlo Lorenzini.
- 1942 - The film The New Spirit is premiered in Washington, DC.
- 1942 - The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Birthday Party is released. Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Clara Cluck, and Goofy also appear. The film is a color remake of the 1931 film The Birthday Party.
- 1944 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Saludos Amigos for an Oscar Award in the category Sound Recording.
- 1944 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Victory Through Air Power for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
- 1944 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Saludos Amigos for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.
- 1944 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the song "Saludos Amigos" from the film Saludos Amigos for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Song.
- 1944 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Reason and Emotion for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1965 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Gallegher, part three.
- 1971 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Bayou Bay, part one.
- 1988 - The ABC TV network airs The Disney Sunday Movie, entitled Rock 'n' Roll Mom.
- 1989 - St. Vincent issues ten postage stamps depicting Disney characters in India-related themes.
- 1989 - The Grenadines of St. Vincent issues ten postage stamps depicting Disney characters in India.
- 1992 - Disney releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Medicine Man to theatres.
- 1997 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Most of the show is a parody of the Disney film Mary Poppins:
- the show's title "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala-D'oh-cious" ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"),
- the name of the nanny Shary Bobbins (Mary Poppins),
- song "Cut Every Corner" ("A Spoonful of Sugar"),
- song "A Boozehound Named Barney" ("Feed the Birds Tuppence a Bag"),
- a character says "Superduperfragicallyexpialido..." ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious").
A dream sequence resembles the black-and-white musical cow in Disney's Steamboat Willie, complete with "Turkey in the Straw" music playing. A character asks "Did you say Mary Pop...", to which the reply is "No, I definately did not. I'm an original creation like Ricky Rouse and Ronald Ruck.".
- 1997 - At the Walt Disney World Speedway, the Richard Petty Driving Experience begins offering driving and passenger rides in stock cars.
- 2004 - (to March 7) At Disneyland Paris in France, The Lion King Carnival musical dance performs.
- 2006 - Disney releases the animated film Bambi II on DVD in the USA.
- 1957 - At Daytona Beach in Florida, the Speed Week Performance Trials are held. Bill Mitchell's 310-hp 336-ci fuel-injected Corvette SR-2 and production Corvettes are entered.
- In the Standing-start Mile (Production) class, Paul Goldsmith in a 1957 Corvette wins with average speed 91.301-MPH.
- In second place is Johnny Beauchamp at 89.798-MPH in a Corvette.
- In third place is Betty Skelton at 87.4-MPH in a Corvette.
- In the Standing Mile (Modified), Buck Baker in the Corvette SR-2 wins with 93.047-MPH.
- In the Flying Mile (Production), Paul Goldsmith in a 1957 Corvette wins with 131.941-MPH.
- Second is Johnny Beauchamp; third is Betty Skelton.
- In the Flying Mile (Modified), Buck Baker in the Corvette SR-2 is 2nd with 152.866-MPH, behind a Jaguar D-Type car.
- 1999 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A car used by undercover police appears to be a red 1991-96 Corvette coupe.
- 1940 - (0600 hours) Irish steamship Munster strikes a mine in the Irish Sea and sinks. All 300 passengers and crew survive.
- 1940 - At General Gerd von Rundstedt's headquarters in Koblenz, Germany, a war game is held to consider a German armored assault through the Ardennes Forest of Belgium toward France.
- 1943 - Japanese forces evacuate Gualcanal.
- 1943 - (evening) 323 British Bombers attack German submarine bases at Lorient.
- 1945 - (evening) 285 British Lancaster bombers and ten Mosquito Pathfinders drop 1384 tons of high explosives on Cleve, Germany. The high explosives cause huge craters. A total of 900 heavy bombers take part in the evening's bombings, including Goch, Weeze, Udem, Geldern, and Calcar.
- 1945 - 100 Lancaster bombers attack the synthetic oil plant at Wanne-Eickel, Germany.
- 1983 - Atari seeks a legal injunction against Coleco Industries to stop it from selling its Colecovision adapter to play Atari cartridges.
- 2005 - At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, California, engineers from Sony, IBM, and Toshiba reveal specifications for the Cell processor. Sony will use the Cell in its next-generation PlayStation console. The Cell will have a 64-bit IBM Power processor and eight processing units capable of handling separate computing tasks. The processor is expected to run at speeds faster than 4GHz, process 256 billion calculations per second, incorporate 2.5 MB of on-chip memory and have the ability to transfer data to and from off-chip memory at speeds up to 100 gigabytes per second. The chip will incorporate 234 million transistors and be produced using advanced 90-nanometer chipmaking processes.
- 1998 - (to February 22) The 18th Olympic Winter Games are held in Nagano, Japan. Sweden wins 2 silver and 1 bronze medals.
- 1984 - Bill C-19 is introduced in the House of Commons, including sections to make possession or sale of false coins an offense unless the piece has "copy" or "copie" on it.
- 1882 - Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan knocks out Paddy Ryan in Mississippi.
- 1884 - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms.
- 1903 - VVV '03 Soccer team forms in Venlo.
- 1949 - Joe DiMaggio becomes first US$100,000 per year baseball player (New York Yankees).
- 1958 - Brooklyn Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
- 1959 - Dorothy Rigney sells Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported US$27 million.
- 1969 - Diane Crump becomes first woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah, Florida).
- 1970 - LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 points in losing cause.
- 1970 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn.
- 1970 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood.
- 1973 - First time New York Rangers shut-out New York Islanders 6-0.
- 1975 - NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28-game road losing streak.
- 1976 - Darryl Sittler, Toronto Maple Leafs, sets NHL record with ten points in a game.
- 1979 - Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for West Indies versus India at Kanpur.
- 1979 - Toronto Maple Leafs' Darryl Sittler scores NHL record ten points (6 goals).
- 1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
- 1985 - New Jersey Devils' Don Lever becomes 57th NHL player to score 300 goals.
- 1986 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas.
- 1987 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano.
- 1987 - For only the second time, a Major League Baseball player is forced to take a pay cut due to salary arbitration. Los Angeles Dodgers' pitcher Orel Hershiser signs for US$800,000 which is a twenty percent reduction.
- 1988 - 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago, Illinois.
- 1988 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6.
- 1988 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic.
- 1989 - 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- 1991 - Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin, and Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame.
- 1993 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20.
- 1993 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic.
- 1995 - Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting.
- 1998 - (to February 22) The XVIII Olympic Winter Games are held in Nagano, Japan.
- 1998 - NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7.
- 2005 - The Detroit Tigers sign right-fielder Magglio Ordonez for five-years for US$75 million.
- 2006 - Venezuela's Caracas Lions wins its first Caribbean Series championship since 1989, defeating the Dominican Republic's Licey Tigers.
- 2010 - The New Orleans Saints defeat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in the NFL Super Bowl at Dolphin Stadium in New Orleans, to claim their first NFL title.
- 2010 - The NFL Super Bowl is watched by more than 106 million people in the U.S., surpassing the 1983 finale of M*A*S*H to become the most-watched program in U.S. television history, according to the Neilsen Company.
- 1977 - Soyuz 24 launches with two cosmonauts.
- 1979 - Neptune becomes farthest planet from the sun in our solar system (will remain that way for 20 years).
- 1984 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
- 2008 - STS-122: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches to deliver the European-built Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station.
- 1812 - In New Madrid, Missouri, a magnitude 7.4 - 8.2 earthquake occurs, the largest historical earthquake in Missouri. The town of New Madrid is destroyed.
- 1892 - In Verkhoyansk, Russia, an Asian record cold temperature of -90 degrees F is recorded.
You can pick a particular day to view that day's events in history.
Bookmark this URL: http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/today/ and revisit each day.
(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
Or, visit my Timelines of History page.
Other web pages of interest:
Chronology of World History
What's Notable About this Year?
Ken P's Coin/Stamp/Bill Novelties
|
