This Day In History

February 7

St. Richard of Lucca -- King

1912 - New Mexico is the 47th state admitted into the Union.
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President, dies.
1610  Galileo sighted fur of Jupiter's moons.
1714  The first typewriter patent was issued in England. (the original laptop)
1782  The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia, becoming the first commercial bnk in the United States.
1789  First US Presidential election was held.
1798  Great Britain, leading a shameful procession, became the first country to enact an income tax.
1953  President Truman announced in his State of the Union Address that the US had developed a hydrogen bomb.
1959  The United States recognizes Fidel Castro as head of Cuba.

1812  Novelist Charles Dickens
1885  Author Sinclair Lewis (1st American Nobel Prize Winner)
1962  Singer Garth Brooks

1959

• Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price

• My Happiness - Connie Francis

• All-American Boy - Bill Parsons (actually, Bobby Bare)

• Goodbye Baby - Jack Scott

1968

• Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers

• Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin

• Spooky - Classics IV

• Skip a Rope - Henson Cargill

1977

• Torn Between Two Lovers - Mary MacGregor

• Car Wash - Rose Royce

• Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

• Near You - George Jones and Tammy Wynette

1986

• That's What Friends Are for - Dionne and Friends

• Burning Heart - Survivor

• I'm Your Man - Wham!

• Just in Case - The Forester Sisters

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