February 7 in History

Historical Events on February 7

1783 American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

1898 Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.

1900 Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.

1943 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.

1951 Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are butchered by South Korean forces.

1986 Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.

1991 Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.

1991 The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government.

1999 Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.

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Famous Birthdays on February 7

1812 Charles Dickens

1973 Juwan Howard

1988 Matthew Stafford

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Famous Deaths on February 7

1799 Qianlong Emperor

1878 Pope Pius IX

1999 Hussein of Jordan

2015 Dean Smith

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