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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, 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 - The ABC TV network airs the last episode of the TV series Crumbs.
- 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.
- 2006 - Konami releases the Winning Eleven 9 video game for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Xbox in the US.
- 2011 - Nintendo releases the Mario Sports Mix video game for the Nintendo Wii in the US.
- 2012 - Nintendo releases the Circle Pad Pro for the Nintendo 3DS in the US. The accessory adds a second analog Circle Pad controller, and a second set of shoulder buttons. Price is US$19.99.
- 2012 - Capcom releases the Resident Evil: Revelations video game for the Nintendo 3DS in the US.
- 2012 - Electronic Arts releases the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
- 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.
- 1916 - The House of Representatives passes a bill to authorize production of McKinley gold dollars.
- 1986 - The Secret Service replies to a collector who submitted a 1959-D Lincoln/Wheat cent for authentication, saying they consider it genuine.
- 2009 - At the World Money Fair in Berlin, Germany, World Coin News presents awards to winners of its 26th annual Coin of the Year contest (for 2007-dated coins).
- Most Historically Significant: USA $1 commemorating 400th anniversary of Jamestown Settlement in Virginia.
- Best Contemporary Event: USA $1 silver for 50th anniversary of integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Most Popular Coin: USA $1 George Washington circulating coin.
- 1849 - American heavyweight boxing championship event is held at Roach's Point, Maryland. Tom Hyer defeats James Ambrose AKA Yankee Sullivan in 17 minutes, 18 seconds.
- 1882 - Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan knocks out Paddy Ryan in Mississippi, USA.
- 1884 - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms.
- 1908 - Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to Saint Louis Browns for $5,000.
- 1912 - Second Dutch 11-city skate (Coen de Koenig wins with time of 11:40).
- 1942 - First indoor 15-foot pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam, 15 feet 3/8 inch).
- 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.
- 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.
- 2014 - (to February 23) The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia.
- 2022 - At Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, NHL regular season game: Ottawa Senators beats New Jersey Devils by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, NHL regular season game: Toronto Maple Leafs beats Carolina Hurricanes by score 4-3.
- 2023 - In a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma Thunder in Los Angeles, California, LeBron James breaks the NBA's all-time scoring record with his 38,387th point, passing previous record holder Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
- 1977 - Soyuz 24 launches with two cosmonauts.
- 1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science, and will remain that way for 20 years.
- 1984 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
- 2001 - A comet plunges into the Sun.
- 2008 - STS-122: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches to deliver the European-built Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station.
- 2016 - North Korea launches a long-range rocket into space, violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.
- 1892 - In Verkhoyansk, Russia, an Asian record cold temperature of -90 degrees F is recorded.
- 1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states.
- 1812 - In New Madrid, Missouri, USA, a magnitude 7.4 - 8.2 earthquake occurs, the largest historical earthquake in Missouri. The town of New Madrid is destroyed.
- 1827 - Ballet (Deserter) first introduced to US at Bowery Theater (New York City, New York).
- 1862 - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, CSA.
- 1864 - Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida.
- 1865 - John Henry Winder, Confederate Brigadier-General/provost marshal, dies at age 64.
- 1870 - The US Supreme Court rules in Hepburn versus Griswold that Congress making paper notes legal tender was unconstitutional.
- 1876 - US President Ulysses Grant's private-secretary Orville is acquitted in Whiskey Ring.
- 1889 - Astronomical Society of Pacific holds first meeting in San Francisco, California.
- 1904 - Baltimore, Maryland, USA catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks).
- 1905 - Dominican Republic signs treaty turning over customs collection to USA.
- 1905 - Oklahoma admitted to statehood of USA.
- 1934 - First contract for Tennessee-Valley Authority power, Tupelo, Mississippi.
- 1936 - A flag is authorized for the US Vice President.
- 1940 - RKO Radio Pictures world premieres Disney's second animated feature film, Pinocchio, at the Central Theatre in New York City, USA.
- 1942 - USS Shark submarine makes last known message, reporting chasing en empty cargo ship.
- 1943 - Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to three more pairs in 1942).
- 1945 - General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila, Philippines.
- 1945 - US President Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court.
- 1945 - US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer.
- 1946 - Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill.
- 1948 - Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as US Army Chief of Staff.
- 1950 - Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- 1950 - US and Great Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime.
- 1962 - US President John Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba.
- 1965 - US begins regular bombing and strafing of North Vietnam.
- 1973 - US Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities.
- 1976 - US Federal Communications Commission raids and shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn, New York).
- 1984 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
- 1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official anthem of New York City, New York.
- 1989 - The Los Angeles, California, City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.
- 1990 - Oil tanker American Trader leaks 1.1 million litres of crude oil from a gash in the hull, causing an oil slick 22km long polluting Bosa Chica, a southern California nature reserve.
- 1992 - Shannon Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA.
- 1994 - 21st American Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins.
- 2007 - HSBC announces it is setting aside US$10 billion to cover bad loans in its US mortgage division.
- 2008 - STS-122: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches to deliver the European-built Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station.
- 2009 - The number of U.S. workers drawing unemployment aid reaches a record high of 4.99 million, the highest since records began in 1967.
- 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.
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