Flashback: February 1987

During this month 20 years ago, events in the Iran-Contra affair started picking up steam in terms of public exposure as the Tower Commission released its investigative report.

Other notable historical events which occurred in February 2007 include:

• British Airways becoming privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange
• The first supernova observable by the human naked eye since 1604 appeared
• Two Unabomber bombs explode in Salt Lake City, Utah within days of each other
• The new constitution of the Philippines goes into effect