02-07-2006, 06:34 AM
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Location: Maryland
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February 7th
1812 ~ Birthday of Charles Dickens, Novelist.
1834 ~ Birthday of Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements.
1883 ~ Birthday of Eubie Blake, Musician, Composer.
1885 ~ Birthday of Sinclair Lewis, Author.
1905 ~ The Great Baltimore Fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1964 ~ The Beatles arrived on their first visit to the U.S.
1971 ~ Women became entitled to vote in Switzerland.
1979 ~ Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit, and became for the next 20 years, the eighth planet from the sun.
1990 ~ Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agreed to give up its monopoly of power.
1992 ~ The European Union was formed.
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