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Thursday, February 7, 2008

February 7

On This Day In History

1964: British Invasion launched with Beatles' arrival in U.S.

The musical British Invasion began when the Beatles landed in New York City this day in 1964, and two nights later, as Beatlemania stormed America, their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show was watched by 73 million viewers.

The Beatles, surrounded by the press corps, wave to fans after landing at John F. Kennedy

Biography Of The Day

Charles Dickens

Born in England this day in 1812, Charles Dickens, whose works include A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, is generally considered the greatest Victorian-era novelist.

Charles Dickens

More Events On This Day In History

1986

1986

In the wake of political unrest, Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, with U.S. assistance, for France.

1974

Grenada gained independence from the United Kingdom.

1885

Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist and social critic who punctured national complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satiric novels and who in 1930 became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born.

1812

1812

One of the largest earthquakes in U.S. history occurred along the New Madrid Fault.

1613

1613

Michael Romanov, founder of the Romanov dynasty, became tsar of Russia.

1477

English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More was born in London.

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