February 07:
1610: Galileo sighted four of Jupiter's moons.
1714: The first typewriter patent was issued in England.
1782: The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia, becoming the first commercial bnk in the United States.
1789: The first US Presidential election was held.
1798: Great Britain, leading a shameful procession, became the first country to enact an income tax.
1812: Charles Dickens born.
1836: The men of the Alamo elect Sam Maverick and Jesse Badgett to represent them at the Convention at Washington-on-the-Brazos.
1867: Laura Ingalls Wilder born.
1885: Sinclair Lewis born.
1953: President Truman announced in his State of the Union Address that the US had developed a hydrogen bomb.
1959: The United States recognizes Fidel Castro as head of Cuba.
1979: The Khmer Rouge government of Cambodia was overthrown as North Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh.
1986: President Reagan ordered all US business with Libya to stop.
1995: Murray Rothbard, famous libertarian and author of Man, Economy and State, died of cardiac arrest.
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