Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 7

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 * 457 – Leo I (pictured), who ruled for nearly 20 years, was crowned Byzantine emperor.
 * 1783 – American Revolutionary War: After three years and seven months, Spain and France abandoned their attempt to capture Gibraltar from the British.
 * 1795 – The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting the ability of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to sue U.S. states in federal courts, was ratified.
 * 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched French and British frigates fought for four hours at the Îles de Los off the Guinean coast, resulting in a stalemate.
 * 1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill with the bubonic plague in the first epidemic of the disease in the continental United States.
 * 1940 – Walt Disney's Pinocchio, the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award, debuted at the Center Theatre in New York City.
 * 1941 – Soviet border guards opened fire on civilians attempting to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near Lunca, killing several hundred people.
 * 1943 – World War II: Japan successfully withdrew its troops from Guadalcanal.
 * 1948 – Neil Harvey became the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
 * 1986 – President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country after a popular uprising, ending 28 years of one-family rule in the nation.
 * 1991 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army shelled 10 Downing Street with mortars in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister John Major.
 * 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty, which led to the formation of the European Union, was signed by the member states of the European Communities.
 * 1994 – Having retired four months earlier, American basketball player Michael Jordan signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox to play baseball.
 * 1995 – Ramzi Yousef, one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
 * 1997 – Steve Jobs returned to Apple Inc. as a consultant after the company's acquisition of his technology startup NeXT.
 * 1999 – Abdullah II became the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan following the death of his father King Hussein.
 * 2014 – Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints (pictured) in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa at more than 800,000 years old.
 * Born/died this day: | Alfonsina Orsini |d|1520| Azar Bigdeli |b|1722| Margaret Fownes-Luttrell |b|1726| Henry Fuseli |b|1741| Louisa Jane Hall |b|1802|  Alfred Worden|b|1932| Herman Vandenburg Ames |d|1935|  Eddie Izzard |b|1962| Juwan Howard  |b|1973| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |d|2001