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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.
- 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 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.
- 1902 - Birth of Ethelda Blebtrey Waterford New York, 100 metre swimmer (Olympics-gold-1920).
- 1903 - VVV '03 Soccer team forms in Venlo.
- 1908 - Birth of Clarence Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe Oakland California, swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)/actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon).
- 1909 - Birth of Joseph "Poeske" Scherens Flemish cyclist (champion sprinter 1932-37).
- 1911 - Harry Graham cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies.
- 1919 - Birth of Ilse Pausin Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936).
- 1921 - Birth of Athol Rowan cricketer (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner).
- 1928 - Birth of Al "Fuzzy" Smith baseball player.
- 1938 - Birth of Juan Pizarro baseball player.
- 1940 - Francis Ford cricketer (5 Tests for England vs Australia 1894-95), dies.
- 1942 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri marathoner (Olympics-gold-1908), dies at 56.
- 1945 - Birth of Gerald Davies British rugby player.
- 1949 - Birth of Sunil Wettimuny cricket (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups).
- 1949 - Joe DiMaggio becomes first $100,000/year baseball player (New York Yankees).
- 1950 - Birth of Burt Hooton baseball player.
- 1950 - Birth of Dan Quisenberry baseball pitcher (Kansas City Royals).
- 1950 - Birth of Marilyn Cochran Burlington Vermont, skier (Olympics-1972).
- 1951 - Birth of Benny Ayala baseball player.
- 1951 - Birth of Manfred Schumann German Federal Republic, bobsled (Olympics-silver/bronze-1976).
- 1953 - Birth of Robert Brazile NFL player.
- 1955 - Birth of Charlie Puleo baseball player.
- 1955 - Birth of Rolf Benirschke Boston Massachusetts, NFL place kicker/Wheel of Fortune host.
- 1957 - Birth of Carney Lansford baseball player.
- 1957 - Birth of Damaso Garcia baseball player.
- 1958 - Brooklyn Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
- 1959 - Birth of Sammy Lee British soccer player.
- 1959 - Dorothy Rigney sells Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M.
- 1959 - Napoleon Lajoie baseball player, dies at 83.
- 1962 - Arthur Carr cricketer (11 Tests for England 22-29), dies shovelling snow.
- 1962 - Birth of Alan Sippy cricketer (dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980's).
- 1963 - Birth of Roland Lefebvre cricket pace bowler (Glamorgan and Holland).
- 1964 - Birth of Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead Riverside California, swimmer (Olympics-silver-84).
- 1964 - Birth of Gretchen Magers Pittsburgh PA/San Antonio Texas, tennis star.
- 1964 - Lillian Copeland US discus thrower (Olympics-gold-32), dies at 59.
- 1965 - Birth of Kristal Parker-Gregory Columbus Ohio, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-20th).
- 1965 - Birth of Reginald Thal soccer player (MVV).
- 1967 - Birth of Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene Dayton Ohio, long jumper (Olympics-bronze-1992, 1996).
- 1968 - Birth of Martin Sinner Koblenz Germany, tennis star (1990 Pretoria).
- 1968 - Birth of Michael Stich German Federal Republic, tennis star.
- 1968 - Birth of Peter Bondra Lutsk Ukraine, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals).
- 1969 - Birth of Bucky Richardson US football quarterback (Houston Oilers).
- 1969 - Birth of Fiona Robinson Collie Western Australia, basketball player (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 1969 - Diane Crump becomes first woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah FL).
- 1970 - Birth of Chris Gardocki NFL punter (Indianapolis Colts).
- 1970 - Birth of Denis Chasse Montréal, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets).
- 1970 - Birth of Stanley Roberts NBA center (Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves).
- 1970 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn.
- 1970 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood.
- 1971 - Birth of Andrew Currey Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Marvin Graves Canadian Football League quarterback (Montréal Alouettes).
- 1972 - Birth of Aftab Habib cricketer (Leicestershire right-handed batsman 1996).
- 1972 - Birth of John Slaney Saint John's, NHL defenseman (Los Angeles Kings).
- 1973 - First time New York Rangers shut-out New York Islanders 6-0.
- 1973 - Birth of Billy Baumhoff Saint Louis Missouri, soccer midfielder/forward (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Juwan Howard NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards).
- 1973 - Birth of Kristin Godridge Traralgon Australia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore).
- 1973 - Birth of Leanne Schuster Mesa Arizona, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1995).
- 1973 - Birth of Sonia Paquette St-Janvier Québec Canada, hurdler (Olympics-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Tim Bowens NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins).
- 1974 - Birth of Ryan Phillips linebacker (New York Giants).
- 1974 - Birth of Steve Nash NBA guard (Phoenix Suns).
- 1975 - Birth of Alexandre Daigle Montréal, NHL center (Ottawa Senators).
- 1975 - Birth of Marika Lehtimaki ice hockey center (Finland, Olympics-1998).
- 1975 - NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak.
- 1976 - Birth of Terry Battle running back (Detroit Lions).
- 1976 - Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game.
- 1977 - Birth of Christine Scheels New Berlin Wisconsin, speed skater (Olympics-1994).
- 1977 - Birth of Hillary Wolf Chicago Illinois, extra lightweight judoka (Olympics-1996).
- 1979 - Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 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.
- 1985 - Uday Merchant, cricketer (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies.
- 1986 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas.
- 1987 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano.
- 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 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49 (born 1943).
- 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 18th 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.
- 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 - Bruce McCandless makes first untethered space walk (US).
- 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.
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