Right this moment is Friday, Feb. 7, the thirty eighth day of 2025. There are 327 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Feb. 7, 1964, the Beatles had been met by hundreds of screaming followers at New York’s John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport as they arrived to start their first American tour.
Additionally on this date:
In 1904, the Nice Baltimore Hearth started; one of many worst metropolis fires in American historical past, it destroyed over 1,500 buildings in central Baltimore.
In 1943, the federal government abruptly introduced that wartime rationing of footwear manufactured from leather-based would go into impact in two days, limiting customers to purchasing three pairs per individual per yr. (This was diminished to 2 pairs per yr in 1944; rationing was lifted in October 1945.)
In 1971, girls in Switzerland gained the proper to vote by way of a nationwide referendum, 12 years after a earlier try failed.
In 1984, house shuttle Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the primary untethered spacewalk.
In 1991, Jean-Bertrand Aristide (zhahn behr-TRAHN’ ahr-ihs-TEED’) was inaugurated as the primary democratically elected president of Haiti. (He was overthrown by the army the next September.)
In 1999, Jordan’s King Hussein died of most cancers at age 63; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Abdullah.
In 2013, Mississippi licensed its ratification of the thirteenth Modification to the U.S. Structure, making it the final state to formally abolish slavery.
In 2021, after transferring south to a brand new workforce and convention, Tom Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 31-9 Tremendous Bowl victory over the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on the Buccaneers’ residence subject.
In 2023, Lebron James handed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to grow to be the NBA’s all-time profession scoring chief.
Right this moment’s birthdays:
- Writer Homosexual Talese is 93.
- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., is 73.
- Actor James Spader is 65.
- Nation singer Garth Brooks is 63.
- Actor-comedian Eddie Izzard is 63.
- Actor-comedian Chris Rock is 60.
- Actor Essence Atkins is 53.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Steve Nash is 51.
- Actor Ashton Kutcher is 47.
- Actor Deborah Ann Woll is 40.
- NFL quarterback Matthew Stafford is 37.
- NHL ahead Steven Stamkos is 35.
