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Friday, February 7, 1997

  • Today's events
  • On the horizon
  • On this day
  • Newslink
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  • "I think I would take a good hard look at myself, and I'd look from the inside out, and I would know that I'm the same girl that won the crown that day and it wouldn't really matter what I look like on the outside because I won,"

    -- Miss USA Brook Lee on what she would do if she gained weight



    Today's events


  • The Chess International Tournament will begin in Ubeda, Spain

  • The National Basketball Association begins its All-Star Weekend in Cleveland, Ohio.

  • South African President Nelson Mandela opens Parliament.

  • Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, ends.

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    On the horizon


  • The Chess International Tournament will begin in Ubeda, Spain

  • The National Basketball Association begins its All-Star Weekend in Cleveland, Ohio.

  • South African President Nelson Mandela opens Parliament.

  • Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, ends.

    On the horizon

  • On Saturday, February 8, the annual Snow Festival will begin in Japan.

  • On Sunday, February 9, the MILIA new media fair opens in Cannes, France.

  • On Monday, February 10, jury selection begins in the retrial of alleged Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss on state pandering charges.

  • On Tuesday, February 11, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces Oscar nominations in Hollywood.

  • On Wednesday, February 12, a verdict is tentatively expected in the false accounting trial of Fiat President Cesare Romiti and Fiat finance director Francesco Paolo Mattioli.

  • On Thursday, February 13, the Berlin International Film Festival opens in Germany.

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    On this day


  • In 1301, King Edward I of England revived the title of Prince of Wales and bestowed it on Edward of Caernarvon, later Edward II.

  • In 1904, the biggest fire in the United States since the great Chicago blaze of 1871 broke out in Baltimore, destroying more than 2,600 buildings.

  • In 1941, the British captured Benghazi in Libya for the first time; they held it until April but were then forced to evacuate, recapturing it again in December.

  • In 1964, amid scenes of mass hysteria, the Beatles pop group arrived in the United States for the first time.

  • In 1968, all 10 provincial premieres of Canada agreed to draft a new constitution giving the French language equal status with English throughout Canada.

  • In 1971, in Switzerland, a referendum voted in favor of female suffrage.

  • In 1977, Britain acknowledged to the European Court of Human Rights that malpractice had been used against prisoners in Ulster in 1971; it pledged never again to use deprivation techniques.

  • In 1984, U.S. astronaut Bruce McCandless flew up to 100 yards from the Space Shuttle Challenger using only a powered backpack, the first time it had been done.

  • In 1986, President Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti fled to France after demonstrations against his rule.

  • In 1990, the Soviet Communist Party leadership agreed to surrender its 70-year monopoly on power, paving the way for a multi-party democracy.

  • In 1991, a mortar bomb attack was made on Number 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Prime Minister John Major, from a vehicle in a nearby street.

  • In 1992, European Community ministers formally signed the Maastricht Treaty of European Union.

  • In 1994, the European Union backed the use of air strikes to relieve besieged Sarajevo.

  • In 1994, Iran arrested more than 20 "morally corrupt" suspects in a plot to assassinate President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

  • In 1996, ten years to the day after the collapse of the Duvalier family dictatorship, Rene Preval became Haiti's second freely elected president.

  • In 1996, a Boeing 757 charter jet carrying 189 people plunged into shark-infested waters off the Dominican coast, killing everyone aboard.

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    Newslink


    The National Basketball Association's All-Star Weekend begins today in Cleveland, Ohio. Can't get to Cleveland? You're in luck because all the action is online. Click here.


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    Holidays and more


  • Today is Jamat-ul-wida in Bangladesh.

  • It's the Lunar New Year in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan.

  • Today is Independence Day in Grenada.

  • Today is the Chinese Spring Festival in Mauritius.

  • Actor Eddie Bracken is 77.

  • Singer Garth Brooks is 35.

  • Actor Miquel Ferrer is 43.

  • Actor James Spader is 37.

  • Author Gay Talese is 65.

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    Sources: Reuters,
    Chase's Calendar of Events 1997, J.P. Morgan



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