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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47755)2/7/2005 3:29:43 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history-February 7: Independence Day in Grenada (1974), Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2005)

1301 - Edward of Caernarvon, the future King Edward II, became the first English heir apparent to hold the title as Prince of Wales.

1940 - Pinocchio, the Academy Award-winning Disney animated film based on a story by Carlo Collodi, was first released.

1984 - NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II 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.