| Year | Event
|
|---|
| 1587 | After 19 years in prison, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded.
|
| 1690 | King William's War breaks out in North America when allied French and Native American forces attack Schenectady, New York. (from The Encarta® 2000 New World Timeline © Copyright 1998, Helicon Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.)
|
| 1887 | Dawes Act passed. The purpose was ostensibly to grant citizenship to Indians living apart from their tribes, but, of course, the real purpose was to relieve the Native Americans from their present holdings.
|
| 1896 | US forces land in Nicaragua to protect American interests during local unrest in San Juan del Sur, February 7-8.
|
| 1904 | The Russo-Japanese War began on this day, with the Battle of Port Arthur, a port on the Liaotung peninsula in Manchuria that served as the primary base for the Russian fleet in the Pacific.
|
| 1960 | Congress begins looking into payola -- no, not for them, but the Music Industry.
|
| 1968 | Three students were killed and 27 were wounded on the South Carolina State University campus when state troopers fired on demonstrators demanding the desegregation of Orangeburg's only bowling alley.
|
| 2000 | President Bill Clinton (D) signs Executive Order 13145 prohibiting federal departments and agencies from making employment decisions based on protected genetic information.
|
| 2004 | The Federal Debt passed through the $7,000,000,000,000 mark on or about this date. Under Bush's (R) regime the debt increased almost $4,000,000,000,000 (4 trillion dollars) or double the increase from the beginning of the U.S.A. to 1986!
|