Volume 13 , Issue 6

This Day In History (February 7)

On this day, February 7th, 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk.

On Feb. 7, 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk. - Go to article

On Feb. 7, 1817, Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist leader, was born. Following his death on Feb. 20, 1895, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary

Also on this date:

1812 - Author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.
1944 - Germany launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.
1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
1974 - The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain.
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