Historical Events and Current Affairs on February 1

1539: Emperor Karel & King Fran‡ois I sign anti-English treaty
1587: English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
1662: Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
1669: French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1709: Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
1717: Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France
1720: Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
1732: Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
1742: Sardinia & 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 England & Netherlands
1793: Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
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: Th‚ophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
1860: 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
1861: Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
1861: Texas becomes 7th state to secede
1862: Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
1864: -Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS
1864: 2nd German-Danish war begins
1864: Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/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: House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
1871: Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in
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: & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
1887: Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern Calif
1892: Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion
1892: 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
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
1905: Hague soccer team ADO froms
1905: Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
1906: 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
1906: English min of Frgn affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
1909: US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
1910: 1st British labour exchange opens
1910: Dragoumis govt forms in Greece
1914: NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1914: Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
1914: Tanganyika Railway opens
1917: Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1918: Franz Leh rs 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: Police merge with Dominion Police
1920: Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted
1920: Soccer team Quick Boys forms
1923: Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
1923: Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
1923: No‰l Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London
1924: Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
1924: New British MacDonald govt recognizes USSR
1924: Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
1924: Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
1925: 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontk„mpferbund 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, 402« lbs
1930: Arnold Sch”nbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
1932: Bradman makes 299* vs S Africa, runs out partner going for 300th
1933: Colonial govt arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
1933: Dutch bishops forbid membership in 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
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 (Neth)
1944: Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
1944: US 7th Infantry/25th 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 govt of christian-dems & communists
1947: Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1947: NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
1948: Federation 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: Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
1950: USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1951: -50øF (-46øC), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
1951: 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1951: 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
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; 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
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 males 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: Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1960: 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
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
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: by disaster
1965: Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
1965: Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1965: NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck
1965: Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1967: Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
1967: WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968: Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a
1968: Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
1968: Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
1968: Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
1968: World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
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: West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
1970: WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972: 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1972: Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1973: Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1974: "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
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
1975: to work for the Defense Department
1976: "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976: East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for
1976: Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1976: 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: Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading
1978: guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1978: Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs 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-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in NYC
1981: Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
1981: French govt accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1981: NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7
1981: Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG
1982: "Late Night With David Letterman," debuts on NBC-TV
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: -61øF (-52øC), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
1985: -69øF (-56øC), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
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
1986: Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switz
1987: 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
1987: 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
1987: NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6
1989: Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
1989: Princess Diane of England visits NYC
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
1998: "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 perf
1998: Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (62 61)
1998: NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24

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