February 1
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February 1 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining after February 1 until the end of the year (334 in leap years).
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[change] Births
- 1552 – Edward Coke, English jurist and politician (d. 1634)
- 1659 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (d. 1729)
- 1687 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, German composer and violinist (d. 1733)
- 1690 – Francesco Maria Veracini, composer (d. 1768)
- 1761 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, mycologist (d. 1836)
- 1801 – Thomas Cole, English-born American painter (d. 1848)
- 1844 – G. Stanley Hall, psychologist (d. 1844)
- 1859 – Victor Herbert, composer (d. 1924)
- 1874 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929)
- 1882 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
- 1887 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
- 1894 – John Ford, director, producer (d. 1973)
- 1894 – James P. Johnson, pianist, composer (d. 1955)
- 1898 – Leila Denmark, American physician and supercentenarian (d. 2012)
- 1901 – Frank Buckles, American World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2011)
- 1901 – Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
- 1902 – Langston Hughes American writer (d. 1967)
- 1904 – S. J. Perelman, humorist, author (d. 1979)
- 1905 – Emilio G. Segre, physicist (d. 1989)
- 1907 – Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)
- 1908 – George Pal, director, producer (d. 1980)
- 1910 – Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan politician (d. 2009)
- 1915 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d. 2000)
- 1918 – Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish author (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Peter Sallis, English actor
- 1922 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
- 1925 – Alfred Grosser, political scientist and publicist
- 1927 – Guenter Guillaume, German spy (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Tom Lantos, American politician (d. 2008)
- 1928 (or 1929) – Stuart Whitman, American actor
- 1930 – Shahabuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh
- 1931 – Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh
- 1931 – Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (d. 2007)
- 1935 – Dieter Kühn, writer
- 1937 – Don Everly, musician
- 1937 – Garrett Morris, American comedian
- 1938 – Sherman Hemsley, American comedian and actor
- 1939 – Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (d. 2009)
- 1939 – Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist, philosopher and author
- 1940 – Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (d. 1996)
- 1942 – Terry Jones, British actor and writer (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
- 1944 – Mike Enzi, United States Senator
- 1946 – Bart Braverman, American actor
- 1947 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
- 1948 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (d. 2011)
- 1948 – Rick James, American musician, composer (d. 2004)
- 1954 – Bill Mumy, American actor and musician
- 1956 – Exene Cervenka, musician (X)
- 1962 – Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese rock guitarist
- 1964 – Jani Lane, American musician (d. 2011)
- 1965 – Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1965 – Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
- 1965 – Sherilyn Fenn, American actress
- 1966 – Michelle Akers, American soccer player
- 1968 – Lisa Marie Presley, American actress
- 1968 – Pauly Shore, American comedian
- 1969 – Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
- 1969 – Joshua Redman, American jazz musician
- 1971 – Jill Kelly, erotic actress
- 1971 – Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer
- 1971 – Michael C. Hall, American actor
- 1972 – Christian Ziege, German footballer
- 1975 – Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)
- 1978 – Julie Roberts, American country music singer
- 1979 – Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer (d. 2005)
- 1981 – Graeme Smith, South African cricketer
- 1982 – Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby player
- 1984 – Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
- 1985 – Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
- 1986 – Lauren Conrad, American television personality
- 1986 – Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
- 1987 – Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
- 1990 – Laura Marling, English singer-songwriter
[change] Deaths
- 1248 – Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207)
- 1328 – Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
- 1691 – Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
- 1733 – Augustus III of Poland (b. 1670)
- 1851 – Mary Shelley, British author of Frankenstein (b. 1797)
- 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
- 1908 – Luis Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (b. 1887)
- 1936 – Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1878)
- 1944 – Piet Mondriaan, Dutch artist (b. 1872)
- 1945 – Prince Kiril of Bulgaria (b. 1895)
- 1957 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
- 1958 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist (b. 1888)
- 1966 – Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1976 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (b. 1901)
- 1976 – George Whipple, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878)
- 1986 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician and diplomat (b. 1902)
- 1988 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (b. 1975)
- 2002 – Hildegard Knef, German actress (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut (b. 1959)
- 2003 – David M. Brown, American astronaut (b. 1956)
- 2003 – Kalpana Chawla, Indian astronaut (b. 1961)
- 2003 – Laurel Clark, American astronaut (b. 1961)
- 2003 – Rick D. Husband, American astronaut (b. 1957)
- 2003 – Willie McCool, American astronaut (b. 1961)
- 2003 – Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut (b. 1954)
- 2004 – Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
- 2007 – Ahmed Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
- 2009 – Lukas Foss, German-born composer (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Justin Mentell, American actor (b. 1982)
- 2012 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer (b. 1921)
[change] Events
- 1327 – Edward III is crowned King of England.
- 1662 – The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
- 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being stranded on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands (now belonging to Chile). This inspires the story of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
- 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.
- 1788 – Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
- 1790 – In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
- 1793 – France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
- 1814 – The Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people. This is the most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
- 1862 – Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic is published for the first time (Atlantic Monthly).
- 1880 – First edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
- 1884 – Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first movie studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
- 1896 – The opera La bohème premieres (Turin).
- 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
- 1913 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
- 1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- 1919 – The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
- 1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
- 1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
- 1929 – Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
- 1943 – World War II: Vidkun Quisling appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers.
- 1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
- 1953 – In the night following January 31 large parts of the Netherlands, Belgium and the southeastern United Kingdom are flooded after heavy storms.
- 1958 – Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
- 1960 – Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: NLF 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.
- 1974 – In São Paulo, Brazil, a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293. Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.
- 1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
- 1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
- 1982 – Senegal and The Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
- 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.
- 1994 – In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
- 1995 – Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embassy Hotel in London, UK.
- 1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress
- 1999 – North Dakota Public Radio is launched.
- 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts onboard.
- 2004 – At least 244 people are trampled to death in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
- 2004 – At the Super Bowl half-time show, part of Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during a routine with Justin Timberlake. This results in the 'Nipplegate' scandal.
- 2009 – Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland. She is the world's first national head of government in a same-sex relationship.
- 2012 – Violence following a football match in Port Said, Egypt, results in 74 deaths.
[change] Observances
- Start of Black History Month (Canada and United States)
- Freedom Day (United States)
- Imbolc, a cross-quarter day in the Celtic calendar
