Notable Historical Events on February 1st
February 1st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
772 |
Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1327 |
Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. |
1539 |
Emperor Karel & King Francois I sign anti-English treaty |
1587 |
Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots |
1662 |
Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders to Chinese pirates |
1669 |
French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion |
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. |
1717 |
Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France |
1720 |
Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty |
1732 |
Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions |
1742 |
Sardinia and Austria sign alliance |
1783 |
William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex |
1788 |
1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet |
1789 |
Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long |
1790 |
Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC) |
1793 |
France declares war on Great Britain and Netherlands |
1793 |
Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen |
1796 |
The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York. |
1809 |
Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system |
1810 |
1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila) |
1810 |
Seville, Spain surrenders to French |
1810 |
US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%) |
1814 |
Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication |
1814 |
Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200 |
1840 |
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated |
1846 |
Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation |
1856 |
Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College. |
1860 |
1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC |
1861 |
Dike breaks in Gelderland, Netherlands |
1861 |
Texas secedes from the Union (US Civil War) |
1862 |
Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic" |
1864 |
-Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS |
1864 |
2nd German-Danish war begins |
1864 |
Austrian and Prussian troops occupy Schleswig-Holstein |
1865 |
13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) |
1865 |
General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins |
1865 |
JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar |
1867 |
Bricklayers start working 8-hour days |
1871 |
Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates) |
1880 |
The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published. |
1881 |
US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized |
1883 |
French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger |
1884 |
1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published |
1887 |
Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) |
1892 |
Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite |
1893 |
Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin |
1893 |
Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ) |
1896 |
Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin |
1897 |
Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul. |
1898 |
1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co |
1902 |
China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet |
1902 |
Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben," premieres in Berlin |
1902 |
US Secretary of State Hay protests granting Russia exclusive privileges in China, on ground that it runs contrary to the 'open door' policy granting all nations equal rights there |
1905 |
Hague soccer team ADO froms |
1905 |
Hungarian premier Count István Tisza resigns |
1906 |
1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas |
1906 |
Dorothy Grey, wife of British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey fatally injured |
1908 |
King Carlos I of Portugal and his hier, Prince Luis Filipe are assassinated by Republican sympathisers in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon. |
1909 |
US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens |
1909 |
US forces withdraw from Cuba after liberal Jose Miguel Gomez becomes president; ensuing political instability will bring a threat of US intervention in 1912 |
1910 |
1st British labour exchange opens |
1910 |
Dragoumis government forms in Greece |
1914 |
NY Giants & Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt |
1914 |
Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed |
1914 |
Tanganyika Railway opens |
1917 |
German Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war |
1918 |
Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest |
1918 |
Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical premieres in NYC |
1918 |
Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14) |
1919 |
Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert |
1920 |
1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn) |
1920 |
Soccer team Quick Boys forms |
1920 |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police |
1923 |
Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel |
1923 |
Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini |
1923 |
Noel Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London |
1924 |
Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens |
1924 |
Ramsay MacDonald's incoming Labour government formally recognizes the Soviet Union |
1924 |
Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg |
1925 |
1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin |
1926 |
Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR |
1926 |
Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch |
1929 |
1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs |
1930 |
Arnold Schönbergs opera, Von heute auf Morgen premieres in Frankfurt |
1932 |
Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th |
1933 |
Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname |
1933 |
Dutch bishops forbid membership of non-catholic unions |
1933 |
German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe |
1934 |
Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his |
1935 |
1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol |
1935 |
James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy |
1937 |
Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port |
1940 |
Russia begins new offensive against Finland |
1940 |
NBC performs the first inter-city television broadcast from its station in New York City to another in Schenectady, New York by General Electric relay antennas. |
1941 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
1941 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner |
1942 |
2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms |
1943 |
German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier |
1943 |
Mussert forms pro-Nazi shadow cabinet in Netherlands |
1944 |
Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy |
1944 |
US 7th Infantry/4th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur |
1945 |
US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie |
1946 |
Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president |
1946 |
Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN |
1947 |
Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems & communists |
1947 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad |
1947 |
NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established |
1948 |
Federation of Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates |
1948 |
Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed |
1949 |
200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948] |
1949 |
RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm) |
1950 |
USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes |
1950 |
Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland |
1951 |
-50°F (-46°C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record) |
1951 |
1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated |
1951 |
1st telecast of atomic explosion |
1951 |
Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed |
1951 |
UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1952 |
General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia |
1952 |
SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in NYC |
1953 |
"General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Ronald Reagan later hosts |
1953 |
"You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television |
1953 |
Dr A de Waal appointed as Neth 1st female asst sect of state |
1953 |
Flooding in Netherlands kills 1,835 |
1953 |
WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres |
1954 |
Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire |
1954 |
Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem |
1955 |
HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark |
1956 |
Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking |
1956 |
WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline |
1957 |
Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam |
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 |
1958 |
1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched |
1958 |
Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic |
1958 |
WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Swiss men vote against voting rights for women |
1959 |
Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit) |
1959 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
1959 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
1959 |
WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament |
1959 |
Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1960 |
34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62) |
1960 |
4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth |
1960 |
48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86) |
1960 |
Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender |
1961 |
1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful |
1961 |
British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive |
1961 |
Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 mins for cricket draw vs West Indies |
1962 |
"New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances |
1962 |
NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule |
1963 |
Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda |
1964 |
"Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 perf |
1964 |
Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks |
1964 |
Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity |
1964 |
Suriname River dammed |
1965 |
Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam |
1965 |
Martin Luther King Jr. & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala |
1965 |
Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news |
1965 |
NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster |
1967 |
Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives |
1967 |
WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Former US VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president |
1968 |
Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers |
1968 |
World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi |
1968 |
Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head |
1969 |
Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert |
1969 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
1969 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
1969 |
WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Ford Frick, Earle Combs & Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame |
1970 |
Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die |
1970 |
WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract |
1970 |
Northern Ireland PM Chichester-Clark meets with British Home Secretary James Callaghan to discuss matters related to the Northern Ireland economy |
1972 |
1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395) |
1972 |
Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK |
1972 |
Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. |
1972 |
British Prime Minister Edward Heath announces the appointment of Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery to undertake an inquiry into the 13 deaths on 'Bloody Sunday' (30 January 1972) |
1972 |
The Ministry of Defence also issues a detailed account of the British Army's version of events during 'Bloody Sunday' |
1973 |
Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1974 |
"Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV |
1974 |
Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory. |
1975 |
"Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65 |
1975 |
"Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1975 |
1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks |
1975 |
Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot |
1975 |
Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department |
1976 |
"Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV |
1976 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
1976 |
Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce |
1976 |
East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich State U after he is warned not to |
1977 |
Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives |
1977 |
Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball |
1978 |
Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp |
1978 |
Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl |
1979 |
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile |
1979 |
Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System |
1980 |
Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run |
1981 |
11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7 |
1981 |
31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland |
1981 |
Duke Ellington's musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in NYC |
1981 |
Dutch Antilles census is 231,932 |
1981 |
French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq |
1981 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7 |
1981 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
1981 |
Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG |
1982 |
"Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV, Bill Murray is first guest |
1982 |
Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia) |
1983 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1984 |
China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations |
1984 |
Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner |
1984 |
Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203) |
1985 |
-61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record) |
1985 |
-69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record) |
1985 |
Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 v Eng) |
1985 |
Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark |
1985 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin |
1986 |
KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH |
1987 |
163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze |
1987 |
38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit |
1987 |
Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
1987 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6 |
1989 |
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion |
1989 |
Diana, Princess of Wales visits NYC |
1989 |
The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. |
1991 |
Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die |
1991 |
Craig McDermott takes 8-97 v England at the WACA |
1991 |
President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws |
1991 |
US Air & Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 |
1992 |
"Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 7 perfs |
1992 |
Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil) |
1992 |
Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by NY Islanders |
1993 |
NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman |
1993 |
Soyuz TM-16 lands |
1994 |
Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec) |
1994 |
Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean |
1995 |
Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends |
1995 |
Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73) |
1995 |
Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record |
1995 |
Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air |
1996 |
The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress. |
1998 |
"Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 perf |
1998 |
86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62) |
1998 |
Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (62 61) |
1998 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 29-24 |
1998 |
Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral. |
2003 |
Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. |
2004 |
251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. |
2004 |
Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to FCC censorship guidelines. |
2004 |
Super Bowl XXXVIII: New England Patriots beat Carolina Panthers, 32-29 at the Reliant Stadium MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB |
2005 |
Nepal King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'état to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers. |
2005 |
Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage. |
2009 |
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the first openly gay Head of State in the modern world. |
2009 |
Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Arizona Cardinals, 27-23 at the Raymond James Stadium MVP: Santonio Holmes, Pittsburgh, WR |
2012 |
At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said |
2013 |
The Nigerian Army bombs a Boko Haram camp, killing 18 people |
2013 |
21 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a market suicide bombing in Hangu, Pakistan |
2013 |
26 people are killed after a fireworks truck explodes and causes a highway to collapse in Henan, China |
2013 |
Zenit-3SL, a Ukranian-Russian carrier rocket, fails 40 seconds after liftoff and crashes into the Pacific Ocean |
2013 |
"House of Cards", starring Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife, is released on Netflix |
2014 |
14 people are killed after Mount Sinabung erupts in Indonesia |
2014 |
Ray Guy becomes the first pure NFL punter to be inducted in the hall of fame |
2016 |
UK scientists given go-ahead to genetically modify human embryos |
2016 |
Zika virus constitutes a 'public health emergency,' World Health Organization says |
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