** Storage: Floopy Disks.

** Storage: Floopy Disks.

** Kyushu University-One of seven former " Imperial Universities "

** The television industry is mostly an oligopoly of seven companies: The Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast, Hearst Corporation, Time Warner, and News Corporation.

** Ibn Khaldun ( 1332 – 1406 ) – in his Muqaddimah ( later translated as Prolegomena in Latin ), the introduction to a seven volume analysis of universal history, was the first to advance social philosophy and social science in formulating theories of social cohesion and social conflict.

** South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes near Dubuque, Iowa.

** In the U. S., the Walt Disney anthology television series, renamed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time.

** A Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey crashes in the Potomac River as it approached Marine Corps Base Quantico, killing all seven people on board.

** The first total solar eclipse to exceed seven minutes of totality in over 800 years, is visible in the Pacific and Peru.

** The Emir of Kuwait, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, returns to Kuwait after seven months of exile while his country was occupied by Iraq.

** A trial for the custody of young Gloria Vanderbilt begins ; it lasts seven weeks and ends with a compromise.

** Underage Gaelic football teams have also had considerable successes on the field at both provincial and national level-winning the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship seven times ( the most recent, also in 2010 ) and the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship four times.

** Sultan is the title of seven ( Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor and Terengganu ) of the nine rulers of the Malay states.

** All seven books are illustrated ( only those by Thomas and Dyer include colour illustrations ) -- Further reading: see the bibliographies in Thomas ( 1993 ) and Dyer ( 2005 ) above

** Federico Faggin, having finished the design of the 4004, became leader of the project from January 1971 until its successful completion in April 1972, after it had been suspended – for lack of progress – for about seven months.

** De septenario, treatise on the number seven in arithmology

** During the second All-Stars season, seven previous contestants were part of a tribe, while the other tribe was composed by famous French sportsmen.

** Literally: fall seven times and stand up eight

** Goswina first met the Rowan when she, along with seven other young Talents, traveled to Altair for a course on Tower management and maintenance.

** Kurt Busch wins the 2004 Nextel Cup at the conclusion of a ten-race " playoff " by seven points.

** At San Anton, every night about seven, everyone would be summoned for prayer ... Dobbie would stand ... and ... pray ... and .... ask the Almighty to bless the convoy ... but he never prayed to stop the bombing ... that was God's will ... God helps those that help themselves ...

** Cam Sinclair made what some call the greatest comeback in action sports history, winning his first X Games gold medal in best trick by pulling a double backflip, the trick that bit him hard in Red Bull X Fighters only 8 months befors, leaving him in a coma for seven days, and having him retrain his body, learning how to walk and, eventually, to ride again.

** The Corsair ( sells 10, 000 copies on publication day ( 1 February ) and over 25, 000 in the first month, going through seven editions )

** NASCAR Championship-Richard Petty wins his first of seven titles.

** seven infantry divisions, and

** Subfamily Alcelaphinae: wildebeest, haartbeast, seven species in five genera

** Followers of Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, ( who was eight months pregnant ), and her friends: Folgers coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring at the home of Tate and her husband, Roman Polanski, in Los Angeles, California.

** In the Polish village of Markowa, German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their six children and eight Jews they were hiding.

** Gulf War: Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel.

** Murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing eight student nurses in Chicago.

** Syzygy: All eight planets align on the same side of the Sun ( see also Jupiter effect ).

** Beer is legalized in the United States, eight months before the full repeal of Prohibition in December.

** June 3 – after eight months of siege, the crusaders take Antioch.

** During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, probably the most severe of the pre-1600 seasons, at least eight intense hurricanes occur.

In Devonian | Late Devonian vertebrate speciation, descendants of Pelagic zone | pelagic Sarcopterygii | lobe-finned fish – like Eusthenopteron – exhibited a sequence of adaptations: * Panderichthys, suited to muddy shallows ; * Tiktaalik with limb-like fins that could take it up onto land ; * Tetrapod | Early tetrapods in weed-filled swamps, such as: ** Acanthostega which had feet with eight digits, ** Ichthyostega with limbs.

** Mexican Golden Trout, Oncorhynchus chrysogaster ( Includes as many as eight other species or sub-species, not yet formally named )

** Philopoemen, Greek general and statesman, strategos of the Achaean League on eight occasions and a major figure in the demise of Sparta as a Greek power ( b. 253 BC )

** Arethusa class cruiser ( 1912 ), eight light cruisers built in 1912 – 1914 that served in World War I

** Beasley Elementary opened in 1902, with eight students.

** eight volumes on Carthaginian history

** Dubii sermonis, in eight books

** 19th Bomb Group ( Heavy ) ( Headquarters, Clark Field, collectively, 4 B-17C, 15 B-17D, 10 B-18 ) The B-17s were distributed eight to a squadron, with three attached to the group headquarters squadron.

** The NIF fires its first bundle of eight beams achieving the highest ever energy laser pulse of 152. 8 kJ ( infrared ).

** During the court festivities in the winter of 1612 – 13, the King's Men give twenty performances, which include eight Shakespearean plays, four by Beaumont and Fletcher, and the lost Cardenio.

In Devonian | Late Devonian vertebrate speciation, descendants of Pelagic zone | pelagic lobe-finned fish — like Eusthenopteron — exhibited a sequence of adaptations: * Panderichthys, suited to muddy shallows ; * Tiktaalik with limb-like fins that could take it onto land ; * Early tetrapod s in weed-filled swamps, such as: ** Acanthostega, which had feet with eight digits, ** Ichthyostega with limbs.

** Support for eight independent stereo speaker channels

** The Majorcan system has eight stressed vowels, reduced to four in unstressed position.