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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_7" title="February 7">February 7</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1813" title="1813">1813</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>: Two evenly matched French and British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">frigates</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_7_February_1813" title="Action of 7 February 1813">fought for four hours</a></b> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Eles_de_Los" title="Îles de Los">Îles de Los</a> off the Guinean coast, resulting in a stalemate.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900" title="1900">1900</a> – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague" title="Bubonic plague">bubonic plague</a> in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_plague_of_1900%E2%80%931904" title="San Francisco plague of 1900–1904">the first epidemic of the disease in the continental United States</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: Japan successfully <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ke" title="Operation Ke">withdrew its troops</a></b> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal" title="Guadalcanal">Guadalcanal</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> – Researchers announced the discovery of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happisburgh_footprints" title="Happisburgh footprints">Happisburgh footprints</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a>, England, the oldest known <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae" title="Hominidae">hominid</a> footprints outside Africa at more than 800,000 years old.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azar_Bigdeli" title="Azar Bigdeli">Azar Bigdeli</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1722); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard" title="Eddie Izzard">Eddie Izzard</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1962); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juwan_Howard" title="Juwan Howard">Juwan Howard</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1973)</p>
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