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February 7: Independence Day in Grenada (1974)

Painting by Louis-Philippe Crépin

1365 – Albert, King of Sweden, granted a town charter to Ulvila, the third-oldest city in Finland.
1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched frigates, the French Aréthuse and the British Amelia, battled to a stalemate (depicted) at the Îles de Los off the Guinean coast.
1865 – The trustees of Seattle enacted an ordinance that expelled Native Americans from the newly incorporated town.
1900 – Second Boer War: British troops made a third unsuccessful attempt to lift the siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Vaal Krantz.
2014 – Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa, at more than 800,000 years old.

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