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Events on February 7

• 1497 Following a fiery sermon by Girolamo Savonarola, countless luxury goods and cultural objects are burned in Florence. Sandro Botticelli personally hands some of his paintings to the flames.
• 1882 The Berlin Stadtbahn begins operating, initially only as a local service.
• 1898 Émile Zola is charged with defamation because of his open letter of January 13 to French President Félix Faure, in which he accuses the judiciary of errors in the conviction of Alfred Dreyfus and sets the Dreyfus Affair in motion.
• 1914 The film comedy Soapbox Derby in Venice, featuring Charlie Chaplin for the first time in the role of the Tramp, is premiered.
• 1940 Walt Disney's second feature-length animated film, Pinocchio, premieres in the United States.
• 1946 In Berlin, DIAS (Wired Radio in the American Sector), predecessor of the RIAS, begins broadcasting via telephone lines. The station is conceived as a counterprogram to Berliner Rundfunk, which is under Soviet control.
• 1962 In the Luisenthal mine disaster in Völklingen in Saarland, 299 miners lose their lives in a coal dust explosion.
• 1964 The Beatles arrive at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on their first trip to America, where they are welcomed on the tarmac by 5,000 fans and 200 journalists.
• 1984 During the STS-41-B mission of Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Bruce McCandless performs an extravehicular activity with a jet backpack—a so-called Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU)—for the first time.
• 1986 Betty Mahmoody and her daughter arrive in Michigan (USA) after being held hostage for one and a half years by her husband and father in Tehran (Iran). Later, her bestseller Not Without My Daughter and the film of the same name starring Sally Field are released.
• 1992 The Treaty of Maastricht is signed by the European Council in Maastricht. It establishes the European Union and sets out its “three pillars”: the European Communities, the Common Foreign and Security Policy, and police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
• 1998 Japanese Emperor Akihito opens the XVIII Olympic Winter Games in Nagano. Nordic combined skier Kenji Ogiwara recites the Olympic oath, and former figure skater Midori Itō lights the Olympic flame.

Born on February 7

• 1870 Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist
• 1870 Adolf Jandorf, German merchant and entrepreneur
• 1873 Thomas Andrews, British inventor and ship designer
• 1910 Max Bense, German philosopher, writer and publicist
• 1931 Holger Börner, German politician
• 1932 Wolfgang Hilberg, German engineer, inventor of the radio clock
• 1960 Klaus J. Behrendt, German actor
• 1960 James Spader, American actor
• 1971 Ingo Nommsen, German television presenter
• 2001 Shani Louk, German-Israeli influencer and victim of Hamas terrorism

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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