🎂 Charles Dickens is born (1812)
Where: Portsmouth, UK
📅 On This Day: February 7
February 7, 1812: Charles Dickens is born. Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England. Drawing on his childhood job in a factory, he wrote stories like Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. The tale of the miser Scrooge changing his heart is still loved every Christmas.
✨ More events on this day
- 1932 🚀 Astronaut Alfred Worden was born; on Apollo 15 he flew alone around the Moon and made the first spacewalk in deep space, far from Earth.
- 1940 🎨 Walt Disney's Pinocchio premiered, the studio's second full-length animated film, about a wooden puppet whose nose grows when he tells a lie.
- 1979 🚀 Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered, so for 20 years Neptune was the farthest planet from the Sun.
🧠 Question of the day
Who is the miser in A Christmas Carol?
- Peter Pan
- Scrooge
- Sherlock Holmes
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Answer: Scrooge
Questions
What happened on February 7?
February 7, 1812: Charles Dickens is born. It happened in Portsmouth, UK.
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