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February 7
1795The 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. 1904Disastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore. 1926Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month. 1964The Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time. 1971Women in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage. 1974The island of Grenada won its independence from Britain 1986President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier fled Haiti. 1990The Communist Party of the Soviet Union allowed other parties to compete for power. 1991Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as first democratically-elected president of Haiti. 
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