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Events

• 1819 (207 years ago) Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal campaign.
• 1962 (64 years ago) The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
• 1986 (40 years ago) Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
• 1992 (34 years ago) The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
• 1999 (27 years ago) Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
• 2012 (14 years ago) President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of the Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.

Births

• 1478 (548 years ago) Thomas More, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (died 1535)
• 1812 (214 years ago) Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (died 1870)
• 1870 (156 years ago) Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist (died 1937)
• 1877 (149 years ago) G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist (died 1947)
• 1885 (141 years ago) Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Puyi, Chinese emperor (died 1967)
• 1978 (48 years ago) Ashton Kutcher, American model, actor, producer, and entrepreneur
• 1979 (47 years ago) Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

• 1799 (227 years ago) Qianlong Emperor of China,
• 1864 (162 years ago) Vuk Karadžić, Serbian philologist and linguist (born 1787)
• 1878 (148 years ago) Pope Pius IX,
• 1920 (106 years ago) Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (born 1874)
• 1960 (66 years ago) Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (born 1903)
• 1979 (47 years ago) Josef Mengele, German SS officer and physician (born 1911)
• 1999 (27 years ago) King Hussein of Jordan,
• 2019 (7 years ago) Albert Finney, English actor (born 1936)

All 315 events, births and deaths of February 7