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What happened on February 1
- February 1, 1327 "Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer."
- February 1, 1411 "Peace of Toru 1411 signed in Toru, Poland"
- February 1, 1539 Emperor Karel & King Fran‡ois I sign anti-English treaty
- February 1, 1587 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence
- February 1, 1662 Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
- February 1, 1662 The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
- February 1, 1663 The town of Quebec is rocked by an evening earthquake
- February 1, 1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
- February 1, 1709 Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
- February 1, 1713 "The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized."
- February 1, 1717 Henri d'Aguesseau's first appointment as chancellor of France
- February 1, 1720 Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
- February 1, 1732 Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
- February 1, 1742 Sardinia & Austria sign alliance
- February 1, 1775 Peasants in Bohemia revolt against servitude.
- February 1, 1780 British Major John Graves Simcoe leads 200 of his Rangers in a foray into New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War
- February 1, 1783 William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
- February 1, 1788 "First US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet"
- February 1, 1788 Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
- February 1, 1789 Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
- February 1, 1790 In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
- February 1, 1790 Supreme Court convenes for the first time (New York NY)
- February 1, 1793 "Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen"
- February 1, 1796 Capital of Upper Canada transferred from Newark (Niagara) to York.
- February 1, 1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
- February 1, 1799 Royal Assent given to change the name of Ile St. Jean (St. John's Island) to Prince Edward Island.
- February 1, 1809 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
- February 1, 1810 First insurance company managed by blacks (American Insurance Company of Philadelphia)
- February 1, 1810 "Seville, Spain surrenders to the French"
- February 1, 1810 "US Population - 7,239,881; Black population - 1,377,808 (19%)"
- February 1, 1811 UK hist Light first lit on Robert Stephenson's Inchcape (Bell) Rock lighthouse off Scotland
- February 1, 1814 "Lord Byron's ""The Corsair"" sells 10,000 copies on the day of publication"
- February 1, 1814 "Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano."
- February 1, 1840 "The first U.S. college of Dentistry is chartered in Baltimore, MD."
- February 1, 1851 Anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies.
- February 1, 1851 "Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein."
- February 1, 1851 "Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53."
- February 1, 1854 Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec; government transfers to Toronto; hastens the decision to move to Ottawa
- February 1, 1856 Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.
- February 1, 1858 Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; miners required to buy licenses to search for gold in the Fraser Valley.
- February 1, 1861 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
- February 1, 1861 Texas votes to secede from the Union.
- February 1, 1862 "Julia Ward Howe's ""Battle Hymn of the Republic"" is published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly."
- February 1, 1864 2nd German-Danish war begins
- February 1, 1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
- February 1, 1864 "Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi"
- February 1, 1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
- February 1, 1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
- February 1, 1865 "JS Rock, first black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar"
- February 1, 1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
- February 1, 1870 Founding of the Quebec Provincial Police force.
- February 1, 1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is first black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
- February 1, 1881 US Assay Office in St Louis MO authorized
- February 1, 1883 French Lieutenant-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
- February 1, 1884 Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- February 1, 1884 "First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published"
- February 1, 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
- February 1, 1892 "Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the ""400"" to describe the socially elite"
- February 1, 1893 "Prince Albert, Saskatchewan recorded the coldest day on record in Saskatchewan: -56.7 degrees Celsius"
- February 1, 1893 "Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria (West Orange, New Jersey)."
- February 1, 1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds first movie studio (West Orange NJ)
- February 1, 1896 The opera La bohme premieres (Turin).
- February 1, 1897 "Shinhan Bank (former CHB), oldest bank in South Korea, opened in Seoul."
- February 1, 1898 "First auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company"
- February 1, 1902 China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
- February 1, 1905 Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
- February 1, 1906 English Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
- February 1, 1906 "First federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS"
- February 1, 1908 "King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon."
- February 1, 1909 "US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens"
- February 1, 1910 Dragoumis government forms in Greece
- February 1, 1910 The first British labour exchange opens
- February 1, 1913 New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
- February 1, 1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed
- February 1, 1914 Tanganyika Railway opens
- February 1, 1916 "SS Empress Queen, stranded in fog off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, where she later broke up. Although there were 1300 troops on board all were got off."
- February 1, 1918 Russia adopts Gregorian calendar (becomes Feb 14)
- February 1, 1918 Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- February 1, 1918 The French ship LaDive is torpedoed in the Mediterranean.
- February 1, 1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
- February 1, 1920 The first commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN)
- February 1, 1920 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
- February 1, 1923 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
- February 1, 1923 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
- February 1, 1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
- February 1, 1924 New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR
- February 1, 1924 United Kingdom recognizes USSR.
- February 1, 1926 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
- February 1, 1926 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch
- February 1, 1929 "Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the ""clean and jerk"" method."
- February 1, 1930 Arnold Sch”nbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
- February 1, 1932 "Bradman makes 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th"
- February 1, 1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
- February 1, 1933 Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions
- February 1, 1933 "German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe"
- February 1, 1934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own
- February 1, 1935 "First ""March of Time"" newsreel premieres at the Capitol"
- February 1, 1935 "James T Farrell finishes his ""Studs Lonigan"" trilogy"
- February 1, 1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland
- February 1, 1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
- February 1, 1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands)
- February 1, 1943 World War II: Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers.
- February 1, 1944 First Japanese territory invaded at Kwajalein.
- February 1, 1944 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
- February 1, 1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
- February 1, 1946 Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie is selected as the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
- February 1, 1946 "Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president"
- February 1, 1946 Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
- February 1, 1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of Christian-democrats & communists
- February 1, 1947 Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
- February 1, 1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
- February 1, 1948 Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
- February 1, 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
- February 1, 1949 "200"" (5.08-meter) Hale telescope first used"
- February 1, 1949 RCA releases first single record ever (45 rpm)
- February 1, 1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
- February 1, 1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
- February 1, 1951 "-50§F (-46§C), Gavilan NM (state record)"
- February 1, 1951 Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
- February 1, 1951 First telecast of atomic explosion
- February 1, 1951 The first X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
- February 1, 1951 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
- February 1, 1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
- February 1, 1952 The United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) is formed.
- February 1, 1953 """General Electric Theater"" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts"
- February 1, 1953 """You Are There"" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television great show for it's time"
- February 1, 1953 Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands first female assistant Secretary of state
- February 1, 1953 "Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835"
- February 1, 1954 "First TV soap opera ""Secret Storm"" premieres"
- February 1, 1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
- February 1, 1955 H C Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
- February 1, 1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
- February 1, 1957 Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
- February 1, 1957 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
- February 1, 1957 The first black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
- February 1, 1958 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
- February 1, 1958 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
- February 1, 1958 "Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961."
- February 1, 1958 US satellite (Explorer I) launched
- February 1, 1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
- February 1, 1960 "4 students stage first civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth"
- February 1, 1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
- February 1, 1960 "Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina."
- February 1, 1961 A full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
- February 1, 1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
- February 1, 1961 Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies
- February 1, 1963 "Neil Young performs his first professional date at a Winnipeg country club, at age 17."
- February 1, 1963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
- February 1, 1964 """Stop the World, I Want to..."" closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances"
- February 1, 1964 "Beatles' ""I Want to Hold Your Hand,"" first #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks"
- February 1, 1964 "Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban ""Louie Louie"" for obscenity"
- February 1, 1964 Suriname River dammed
- February 1, 1965 "Churchill River, Newfoundland - Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill."
- February 1, 1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
- February 1, 1965 "Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news"
- February 1, 1965 The Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Spencer Churchill
- February 1, 1966 "Buster Keaton, famous comic film star, dies at age 69."
- February 1, 1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
- February 1, 1968 Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head
- February 1, 1968 Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President
- February 1, 1968 Merger of the historic New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad to form ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.
- February 1, 1968 "Official unification of the three military services of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, into the Canadian Forces."
- February 1, 1968 "The government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work"
- February 1, 1968 Vietnam War: Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.
- February 1, 1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers
- February 1, 1968 World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
- February 1, 1969 Saturday mail delivery in Canada eliminated.
- February 1, 1970 "Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die"
- February 1, 1970 West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
- February 1, 1971 "Canada and China open diplomatic relations; exchange diplomats in both countries, and officially recognize each other's sovereignty"
- February 1, 1972 Kuala Lumpur became a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- February 1, 1972 The calculator arrives as a scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
- February 1, 1972 "Wings release ""Give Ireland Back to the Irish"" in UK"
- February 1, 1973 Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
- February 1, 1974 """Good Times"" (spinoff from ""Maude"") premieres on CBS TV"
- February 1, 1974 "Joelma Building fire - a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293 in Sao Paulo, Brazil."
- February 1, 1974 Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.
- February 1, 1975 """Hoppy, Gene & Me"" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65"
- February 1, 1975 """Men on the Moon"" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances"
- February 1, 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Pilot - January
- February 1, 1975 Otis Francis Tabler is first open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
- February 1, 1976 """Rich Man, Poor Man"" mini-series premieres on ABC TV"
- February 1, 1976 "Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce"
- February 1, 1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
- February 1, 1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
- February 1, 1978 Harriet Tubman is first black woman honored on a US postage stamp
- February 1, 1979 "Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile."
- February 1, 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile.
- February 1, 1979 Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
- February 1, 1979 Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves federal prison when her sentence for bank robbery is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
- February 1, 1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
- February 1, 1980 "Soap opera ""Love of Life"" ends a 28 year run"
- February 1, 1981 Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell causes furore when he orders his brother Trevor to bowl underarm to a New Zealand batsman.
- February 1, 1981 "Duke Ellington-musical ""Sophisticated Ladies,"" premieres in New York NY"
- February 1, 1981 "Dutch Antilles census is 231,932"
- February 1, 1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
- February 1, 1981 "Trevor Chappell bowls his infamous ""Underarm Ball"" to Brian McKechnie to prevent New Zealand scoring a 6, and tying the ODI, on the last ball of the third match in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. It directly led to the banning of underarm bowling by the International Cricket Council as not within the spirit of the game."
- February 1, 1982 Amoco Canada and Chevron Standard Ltd. withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands oil consortium in Alberta .
- February 1, 1982 David Letterman begins an 11-year run as the host of the NBC program Late Night with David Letterman.
- February 1, 1982 Late Night With David Letterman makes its debut on NBC-TV.
- February 1, 1982 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
- February 1, 1982 Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
- February 1, 1983 "New channels first available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; First Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel allyou got to do is PAY"
- February 1, 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- February 1, 1984 China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
- February 1, 1984 "Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)"
- February 1, 1985 "-61§F (-52§C), Maybell CO (state record)"
- February 1, 1985 "-69§F (-56§C), Peter's Sink UT (state record)"
- February 1, 1985 Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs England)
- February 1, 1986 "Dick James, music publisher for the Beatles from 1962-70, dies in London at age 58."
- February 1, 1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland
- February 1, 1987 "163 day strike against Deere & Company ends, workers accept wage freeze"
- February 1, 1989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
- February 1, 1989 Princess Diana of England visits New York NY
- February 1, 1989 The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
- February 1, 1990 CN Rail commences cabooseless train operations.
- February 1, 1991 35 people die when a USAir jetliner crashes atop a commuter plane at Los Angeles International Airport.
- February 1, 1991 "Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die"
- February 1, 1991 Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs England at the WACA
- February 1, 1991 "President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws"
- February 1, 1992 "The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case."
- February 1, 1992 "Uniondale, New York Denis Potvin's #5 becomes first number retired by the New York Islanders"
- February 1, 1993 New York Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
- February 1, 1993 Soyuz TM-16 lands
- February 1, 1994 "In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan."
- February 1, 1994 "Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, pleads guilty to taking part in an attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan."
- February 1, 1994 "Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean"
- February 1, 1995 Amtrak New York-Tampa run ends
- February 1, 1995 "Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pakistan, brotherly record"
- February 1, 1995 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
- February 1, 1996 The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- February 1, 1996 "Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index breaks through the symbolic 5,000 mark for the first time, our Dow Jones"
- February 1, 1998 """Street Corner Symphony,"" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 performances"
- February 1, 1998 86th Australian Mens Tennis Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (6-2 6-2 6-2)
- February 1, 1998 Australian Mixed Doubles Tennis J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (6-2 6-1)
- February 1, 2000 Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say they have traced the origin of the AIDS virus to around 1930.
- February 1, 2003 "Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard."
- February 1, 2004 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
- February 1, 2005 "Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage."
- February 1, 2005 Nepal King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'tat to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
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