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After bitter fighting, the French take the town, but the Russians resume the battle the next day. 1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri. [9] 1813 – In the action of 7 February 1813 near the Îles de Los, the frigates Aréthuse and Amelia batter each other, but neither can gain the upper hand.
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Thursday, February 7, 2008, [1] [2] with a magnitude of 0.965. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar 1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer , German biologist (d. 1876) 1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet , Belgian mathematician (b. 1796)
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1999 – Launch of Stardust, NASA robotic space probe to study the asteroid 5535 Annefrank and collect samples from the coma of comet Wild 2.It is the first sample return mission to collect cosmic dust and return the sample to Earth and the first to acquire images of a previously visited comet.