February seventh
Today's Highlight in History:On February seventh, 1943, the government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the remainder of the year
On this date:
In 1812, author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England
In 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1500 buildings
In 1936, President Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president
In 1944, during World War Two, the Germans launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy
In 1944, Bing Crosby and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra recorded "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records in Los Angeles
In 1948, General Dwight D
Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff; he was succeeded by General Omar Bradley
In 1964, The Beatles began their first American tour as they arrived at New York's John F
Kennedy International Airport
In 1974, the island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain
In 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless the Second and Robert L
Stewart went on the first untethered space walk
In 1986, Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of his family's rule
Ten years ago: The Soviet Union's Communist Party agreed to let alternative political parties compete for control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power
An 811-foot tanker, the "American Trader," spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of Alaskan crude oil off the coast of Huntington Beach, California
Five years ago: Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan, after two years as a fugitive
One year ago: Jordan's King Hussein died of cancer at age 63; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Abdullah
NASA launched the "Stardust" spacecraft on a mission to chase a comet in hopes of collecting a sample of comet dust
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"There are only two classes of mankind in the world -- doctors and patients
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-- Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet (1865-1936)
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