FEBRUARY 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.
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