[1]Tomorrow:
February 7
1685: James VII, (II of Engl.), a Catholic.
1700: Byres deserts, the Darien Colony.
1837: Sir James Augustus Henry Murray b., Scottish creator of the
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is born.
1885: Sinclair Lewis b., Novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel
Prize 1930).
1952: Elizabeth II, Queen of Britain.
References
1. http://sinclair.quarterman.org/timeline.html