📜 This Day in History

February 7

• 457Leo I, who ruled for nearly 20 years, was crowned Byzantine emperor.
• 1813Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched frigates, the French Aréthuse and the British Amelia, battled to a stalemate at the Îles de Los off the Guinean coast.
• 1940Walt Disney's Pinocchio, the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award, debuted at the Center Theatre in New York City.
• 1984During the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk.
• 1995Ramzi Yousef, one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
• 2014Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa, at more than 800,000 years old.

Born on this day

• 1478Thomas More, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (died 1535)
• 1812Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (died 1870)
• 1870Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist (died 1937)
• 1885Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)