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02/07/1948
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"Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 perfs
Type: Event
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02/07/1948
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Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
Type: Event
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02/07/1948
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Jimmy Greenspoon, LA Cal, rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1948
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"Red" McKenzie, blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies
Type: Death
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02/07/1949
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Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees)
Type: Event
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02/07/1949
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Alan Lancaster, bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1949
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Sunil Wettimuny, cricket (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1950
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Georges Bidault forms French govt
Type: Event
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02/07/1950
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Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Type: Event
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02/07/1950
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US and Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime
Type: Event
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02/07/1950
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Burt Hooton, baseball player
Type: Birth
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02/07/1950
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Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (KC Royals)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1950
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Marilyn Cochran, Burlington Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1951
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Benny Ayala, baseball player
Type: Birth
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02/07/1951
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Manfred Schumann, German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1953
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Robert Brazile, NFLer
Type: Birth
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02/07/1954
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Miguel Ferrer, Santa Monica CA, actor (Robocop)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1954
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Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
Type: Death
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02/07/1955
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Charlie Puleo, baseball player
Type: Birth
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02/07/1955
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Rolf Benirschke, Boston, NFL place kicker/TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1956
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Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled
Type: Event
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02/07/1956
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Garth Brooks, Tulsa Okla, country vocalist (No Fences)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1957
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Carney Lansford, baseball player
Type: Birth
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02/07/1957
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Damaso Garcia, baseball player
Type: Birth
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02/07/1957
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Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71
Type: Death
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02/07/1958
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1st showing of DAF 600 auto
Type: Event
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02/07/1958
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Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
Type: Event
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02/07/1958
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Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
Type: Event
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02/07/1958
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Manuel Mijares, Mexico, spanish vocalist (Maria Bonita)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1958
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Michele Drake, La Jolla CA, playmate (May, 1979)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1958
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Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76
Type: Death
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02/07/1959
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"Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
Type: Event
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02/07/1959
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Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
Type: Event
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02/07/1959
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Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
Type: Event
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02/07/1959
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Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
Type: Event
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02/07/1959
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Brian Travers, rock saxophonist (UB40-Red Wine)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1959
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Sammy Lee, British soccer player
Type: Birth
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02/07/1959
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Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
Type: Death
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02/07/1959
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Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
Type: Death
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02/07/1959
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Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar, rocker, dies at 32
Type: Death
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02/07/1960
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Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
Type: Event
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02/07/1960
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James Spader, NYC, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1960
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Steve Bronski, rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
Type: Birth
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02/07/1960
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Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
Type: Death
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02/07/1961
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Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
Type: Event
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02/07/1961
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Louis-Ferdinand C‚line, Fren physician/author/anti-semite, dies at 67
Type: Death
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02/07/1962
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Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
Type: Event
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02/07/1962
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President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
Type: Event
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02/07/1962
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Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational
Type: Event
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02/07/1962
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Alan Sippy, cricketer (dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980's)
Type: Birth
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