■ On Feb. 7, 1965, during the Vietnam War, Viet Cong forces attacked Camp Holloway, a U.S. Army helicopter base near Pleiku, killing eight Americans and wounding more than 100 others; the United States retaliated with airstrikes against the North Vietnamese. ■ In 1795, the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with states’ sovereign immunity, was ratified. ■ In 1857, a French court acquitted author Gustave Flaubert of obscenity for his serialized novel “Madame Bovary.” read more