It happened on a… February 7
2021
Super Bowl LV: Tampa Bay Buccaneers dominate defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9; MVP: Tom Brady, TB Bucs, QB; Brady’s record 7th SB win.

2014
XXII Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi, Russia.

1998
XVIII Winter Olympic Games open in Nagano, Japan.

1991
The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti’s first democratically elected president.

1986
Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country ending 28 years of family rule.

1979
Pink Floyd premiere their live version of « The Wall » in Los Angeles

1976
Darryl Sittler (Toronto Maple Leafs) set a National Hockey League (NHL) record when he scored 10 points in a game against the Boston Bruins. He scored six goals and four assists.

1969
Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO.

1964
The Beatles pop group arrive in the United States for the first time; mass hysteria greets them at the airport.

1961
Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama « A String of Beads ».

1940
« Pinocchio » world premiered at the Center Theatre in Manhattan.

1639
Academie Française begins Dictionary of French Language.
