February 7: Independence Day in Grenada ( 1974)
- 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Eylau began between the French Empire, and Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition near Preußisch Eylau, East Prussia.
- 1863 - HMS Orpheus sank off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
- 1984 - NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II (pictured in spacesuit) performed the first untethered spacewalk using a Manned Maneuvering Unit.
- 1992 - The Maastricht Treaty, which led to the formation of the European Union, was signed in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
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