Today is Tuesday, February 7, the 38th day of 2012. There are 328 days left in the year.
1639 ― Academie Francaise begins the Dictionary of the French Language
1900 ― Labour Party forms in England
1914 ― Charlie Chaplin debuts ``The Tramp" in ``Kid Auto Races at Venice"
1940 ― British railroads nationalized
1947 ― Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
1949 ― Joe DiMaggio becomes first $100,000/year baseball player (New York Yankees)
1950 ― Senator Joe McCarthy finds ``communists" in U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1962 ― President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
1964 ― Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for first U.S. tour
1990 ― USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties