February 7<\/p>\n
1301 \u2013 Edward of Caernarvon, son of King Edward I (known as Longshanks), later King Edward II of England, is invested by his father as the first English<\/em> Prince of Wales and heir to the throne.<\/p>\n 1497 \u2013 In Florence, Italy, supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books, in a “Bonfire of the vanities”.<\/p>\n 1795 \u2013 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.<\/p>\n 1812 \u2013 The strongest in a series of earthquakes that began the previous December, strikes New Madrid, Missouri.<\/p>\n 1894 \u2013 The Cripple Creek miner’s strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in – you guessed it – Cripple Creek, Colorado.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.<\/p>\n 1904 \u2013 A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland, destroying over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal, ending attempts to retake the island.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The body of fugitive war criminal, Josef Mengele is found in the waters\u00a0off the coast of Bertioga, Brazil, purported drowned after suffering a stroke while swimming.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 On Mission STS-41-B,\u00a0 aboard Shuttle\u00a0Challenger, <\/em>\u00a0Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 USAF Air Combat Victories: Rick Parsons-1 SU-7, Randy May-1 Mi-24, and Anthony Murphy-2 SU-22s<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/em> is launched on mission STS-98, carrying the Destiny<\/em> laboratory module to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Mississippi officially ratifies the 13th Amendment, becoming the last state to approve it after Mississippi in 1995.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 North Korea demonstrates it ability to launch to orbit by launching the Kwangmy\u014fngs\u014fng-4<\/em> reconnaissance satellite, in violation of multiple UN treaties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 7 1301 \u2013 Edward of Caernarvon, son of King Edward I (known as Longshanks), later King Edward II of England, is invested by his father as the first English Prince of Wales and heir to the throne. 1497 \u2013 In Florence, Italy, supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books, in a “Bonfire … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64609"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89848,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64609\/revisions\/89848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}