7 February
Notable Births
Shedeur Sanders
b. 2002
American football player (born 2002)
R. J. Hampton
b. 2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
Omar Marmoush
b. 1999
Egyptian footballer (born 1999)
Nicolò Barella
b. 1997
Italian football player (born 1997)
Anhelina Kalinina
b. 1997
Ukrainian tennis player (born 1997)
Aaron Ekblad
b. 1996
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Pierre Gasly
b. 1996
French racing driver (born 1996)
Tom Glynn-Carney
b. 1995
English actor (born 1995)
Roberto Osuna
b. 1995
Mexican baseball player (born 1995)
Riley Barber
b. 1994
American ice hockey player (born 1994)
Nathan Walker
b. 1994
Welsh-Australian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Javon Hargrave
b. 1993
American football player (born 1993)
Chris Mears (diver)
b. 1993
British diver (born 1993)
Sergi Roberto
b. 1992
Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Ksenia Stolbova
b. 1992
Russian pair skater (born 1992)
Maimi Yajima
b. 1992
Japanese singer and actress (born 1992)
Gabbie Hanna
b. 1991
American internet personality and musician
Ryan O'Reilly
b. 1991
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Richard Pánik
b. 1991
Slovak ice hockey player (born 1991)
Morris Claiborne
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Notable Deaths
Dafydd Elis-Thomas
d. 2025
Welsh politician (1946–2025)
Tony Roberts (actor)
d. 2025
American actor (1939–2025)
Li Wenliang
d. 2020
Chinese ophthalmologist (1985–2020)
John Dingell
d. 2019
American politician (1926–2019)
Albert Finney
d. 2019
English actor (1936–2019)
Jan Olszewski
d. 2019
42nd Prime Minister of Poland from 1991 to 1992
Frank Robinson
d. 2019
American baseball player and manager (1935–2019)
Richard Hatch (actor)
d. 2017
American actor (1945–2017)
Hans Rosling
d. 2017
Swedish statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)
Tzvetan Todorov
d. 2017
Bulgarian-French literary scholar et al (1939–2017)
Billy Casper
d. 2015
American professional golfer (1931–2015)
Marshall Rosenberg
d. 2015
American psychologist and mediator (1934–2015)
Dean Smith
d. 2015
American basketball coach (1931–2015)
John C. Whitehead
d. 2015
American civil servant (1922–2015)
Doug Mohns
d. 2014
Canadian ice hockey player
Krsto Papić
d. 2013
Harry Keough
d. 2012
American soccer player (1927–2012)
Franco Ballerini
d. 2010
Italian cyclist (1964–2010)
Blossom Dearie
d. 2009
American jazz singer and pianist (1924–2009)
Dürrüşehvar Sultan
d. 2006
Ottoman princess (1914–2006)
On This Day in History
All 48 ›2024
Pakistan election offices are hit by twin bombings, killing at least 24 people a day before general elections.
February 2024 Balochistan bombings
2021
The 2021 Uttarakhand flood begins.
2021 Uttarakhand flood
2016
North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.
Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4
2014
Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
Happisburgh footprints
2013
The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
Mississippi
2012
President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of the Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
Mohamed Nasheed
2009
Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
Black Saturday bushfires
2001
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-98, carrying the Destiny laboratory module to the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1999
Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
Abdullah II of Jordan
1995
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ramzi Yousef
1992
The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
Maastricht Treaty
1991
Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
Haiti
1991
The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government.
The Troubles
1990
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1986
Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
Haiti
1984
Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
Space Shuttle program
1981
A plane crash at Pushkin Airport kills 50 people, including 16 members of the Pacific Fleet.
1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash
1979
Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
Pluto
1974
Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Grenada
1966
The Great Fire of Iloilo breaks out in a lumber yard in Iznart Street and burns for almost half a day destroying nearly three-quarters of the City Proper area and Php 50 million pesos in total properties' damage.
1966 Iloilo City fire