CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY-MONDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Monday, February 7, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY-MONDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Today is Monday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2011. There are 327 days left in the year.

Today in History: Monday, February 07, 2011

AP Highlight in History:
On Feb. 7, 1964, the Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, beginning rock 'n' roll's "British invasion."

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On this date in:
1812	Author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.
1944	Germany launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.
1948	Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
1974	The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain.
1984	Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk.
1986	Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of family rule.
1990	The Soviet Union's Communist Party gave up its monopoly on power by agreeing to let other political parties compete for control of the country.
1991	Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president.
1995	Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1999	Jordan's King Hussein died at age 63.
2005	Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s. (Shanley was sentenced to 12-15 years in prison.)