TODAY IN HISTORY

FEB. 7

1795-The 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

1904-Disastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore.

1926-Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month.

1964-The Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time.

1971-Women in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage.

1974-The island of Grenada won its independence from Britain

1986-President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier fled Haiti.

1990-The Communist Party of the Soviet Union allowed other parties to compete for power.

1991-Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as first democratically-elected president of Haiti.